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N. Richard Nash

Shows · N. Richard Nash

LyricistBook Writer 1913–2000

Nathan Richard Nusbaum (June 8, 1913 – December 11, 2000), known as N. Richard Nash, was an American writer and dramatist best known for writing Broadway shows, including The Rainmaker.

Also credited on5 works

110 in the Shade
The Happy Time
110 in the Shade (2007 Revival)
Saravá
Wildcat

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature8 passages

  • 110 in the Shade , with book by N. Richard Nash (based on his play The Rainmaker ) and music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones is not as well known by the general public as The Music Man , but it is held by many to be one of Broadway’s hidden gems. The music is closer to the ballets of Aaron Copland than to the bluster of Sousa .…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • See the Jaguar by N. Richard Nash (Cort Theatre, December 3, 1952, 5 performances)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Girls of Summer by N. Richard Nash (Longacre Theatre, November 19, 1956, 56 performances)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • So Jacques turned into an antihero, and Tony voters turned against him. Book writer N. Richard Nash tried to ameliorate the problem a minute before the show ended by having Jacques state that he eventually had his own son. He didn’t mention a wife.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
  • Merrick ushered in a parade of songwriters and librettists—Jerry Herman, Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and N. Richard Nash—to prescribe a remedy for the ailing show. In the end, Gower himself prescribed the cure by persuading Merrick to send the show to Cincinnati for a three-week extension of the tryout. There, the song “What C…ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
  • 46 Gower Champion in N. Richard Nash and Fred Ebb, The Happy Time (Chicago: Dramatic Publishing Co., 1969), 7.ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt

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