Patricia Birch

On stage 1 production

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Also credited on11 works

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Gease
Grease
A Little Night Music
Over Here!
Pacific Overtures
Raggedy Ann
The Gershwins' Fascinating Rhythm
The Me Nobody Knows
Welcome to the Club
Band in Berlin

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In the literature8 passages

• Patricia Birch was asked to do the choreography for the show. A former dancer who had performed with the Martha Graham Company as well as on Broadway, Birch had first worked with Prince as a performer in West Side Story, going on to do the choreography for the hit Broadway musical Grease and the Off-Broadway You're a Good Man, Charlie Bro…ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt
• Patricia Birch spent her hours preparing for the musical by looking at film, working with Kabuki people and Haruki Fujimoto, her Kabuki assistant on the show, and learning to use her fan. She spent hours learning symbolic hand language, learning folk dances and rhythm technique. She also realized that her early training with Martha Graham…ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt
• Prince’s ability to work unitedly with a choreographer—Patricia Birch—is unique and tremendous. While there is little dance as such in Candide, there is a great deal of dance movement and musical staging, both of which are far more consequential to a musical’s musicality than a dance number. Ms. Birch’s work is terrific. After all this I…theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
• ea” ty Herb Schapiro basedlon the 1969 book, edited by Stephen M. Joseph reed by.Robert H. Livingston a ch eographed by Patricia Birch—theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
• choreographed by Marc Breaux (replacing Patricia Birch) produced by Arthur Whitelaw, Max Brown, and Byron Goldmana starring Shelley Winterstheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
• choreographed by Patricia Birch produced by Emanuel Azenberg starring Robert Klein and Lucie Arnaz with Helen Castillo, Celia Celnik Matthau, Wayne Mattson, Andy Roth, Debbie Shapiro, and Greg Zadikovtheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt

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