Also credited on1 work
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 literature2 passages
- The Wizard , based of course on L. Frank Baum’s children’s tale, was from the start Baum’s project. He wrote book and lyrics to Paul Tietjens’ music, following his original storyline: Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Lion (a pantomime animal, rather like Evangeline ’s heifer) set off on a quest that ends with Dorothy’s ret…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
- A. Baldwin Sloane, whom we just met replacing Paul Tietjens on The Wizard of Oz , was no longhair. Yet when he and Sydney Rosenfeld built The Mocking Bird (1902) around the old number that opera sopranos favored when asked to sing something “popular,” it was “a romantic comic opera.” True, “Listen To the Mocking Bird” no longer holds any…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.
What this page does not know
- What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
- Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
- 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 — composer — 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.