Morton DaCosta

On stage 1 production

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Also credited on1 work

The Music Man

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In the literature6 passages

• Direction : Morton DaCosta; Producer : Robert Fryer; Choreography : Ralph Beaumont; Scenery and Costumes : Cecil Beaton; Lighting : Jean Rosenthal; Musical Direction : Jerry Arlenebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• One suspects that Robbins probably would have bested Morton DaCosta. But the facts remain that West Side Story is the greatest blue-chip musical theater title to win the fewest Tony Awards: a mere two. Ten years down the line, even two now forgotten musicals, The Happy Time and Hallelujah, Baby! would respectively win three and four.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
• By the time Padula brought Let’s Go Steady to Gower in the summer of 1958, both Fred Astaire and Morton DaCosta (The Music Man ) had already declined offers to direct. 1 One look at the libretto by Warren Miller and Raphael Millian, and Gower did the same. To win him over, Padula fired the writers, hired and fired a succession of others (…ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
• So I invited Morton DaCosta, the director and producer of the movie, to have lunch with me. Morton had also produced and directed the movie Auntie Mame , with Rosalind Russell, and he went on to direct Jack and me in Maggie Flynn on Broadway. I told him the truth, knowing that too many of my scenes were already in the can for him to fire…ebooks/Jones, Shirley/Shirley Jones_ A Memoir - Shirley Jones.txt
• MORTON DACOSTA Monday thru Thursday at 8:30: $7.95, 6.75, 6.00, 5.50, 4.50, 3.00. Friday & Saturday at 8:30: $8.95, 8.00, 7.00, 6.00, 5.00, 4.00, 3.00. Wednesday Matinees at 2:30: $5.50, 5.00, 4.50, 3.50, 2.50, 2.00. Saturday Matinees at 2:30: $6.50, 6.00, 5.50, 4.50, 3.00.theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
• DOUBLES By David Wilise; Director, Morton DaCosta; Set/Costumes. Robert Fletcher; Lighting. Craig Miller; Generaltheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1986-87 Season, v. 43 (Willis, John).txt

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