Also credited on6 works
All in One
Curtains
Footloose
Gypsy (2008 Revival)
Music in the Air
The Merry Widow
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
- In many ways, Wolzogen became a victim of his own success. With all the new interest in cabarets, he was forced out of his original premises, and built a spectacular new 800 seat auditorium designed by August Endell. Unfortunately, he had fallen out with some of his artistes, including Oscar Straus , who were lured away by his rivals. Con…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- Aufricht apparently leapt at the idea, but was reluctant to take Brecht ’s suggestion that Weill write a new, original score. He had Weill prepare a few songs to “audition”, and then gave the go-ahead. Die Dreigroschenoper , the “Threepenny Opera ”, opened on 31 August 1928. The initial reception was not warm, but it gradually caught on,…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- Pas sur la Bouche was “adapted” into English as Just a Kiss . Following a tryout at the Princes Theatre in Manchester, it opened at the original Shaftesbury Theatre (destroyed in the blitz on 17 April 1941) on 8 September 1926, produced by Harry Grattan . The setting was changed to Windsor and Mayfair with a new libretto by Frederick Jack…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- The original production was directed by René Dupuy who also played the narrator, Bob-le-Hotu, proprietor of the Bar-des-Inquiets (“Bar for Worried People”). For the leading role of the prostitute Irma , Juliette Greco and Colette Deréal were considered, but the part finally went to Colette Renard (1924- 2010), who was married to the show’…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- Translating a musical from one language into another is always a tricky business. Michael Kunze , who in addition to being a successful lyricist and book writer in his own right has also created German-language translations of Evita , Chicago and many others, maintains that it is more adaptation than translation. “I try to become the orig…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- Demy and Legrand followed up the original film in 1967 with Les Demoiselles de Rochefort , also starring Deneuve as well as her sister Françoise Dorléac . It also included guest-stars Gene Kelly and George Chakiris , and was choreographed by Irish-born Norman Maen . “It’s… a musical that periodically defamiliarizes – ‘makes strange’ – the…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
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- What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
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- Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
- Any biography.
- Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
- Which of the credits above the roles on this record — book writer, choreographer, director — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.