Theatre Register

Philip Rose

Shows · Philip Rose

Book WriterDirector 1921–2011

Philip Rose (July 4, 1921 – May 31, 2011) was a Broadway theatrical producer of such productions as A Raisin in the Sun, The Owl and the Pussycat, Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?, Purlie, and Shenandoah. His work was particularly notable for its social insight and distinctive social conscience.

Also credited on2 works

Purlie
Shenandoah

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

  • Philip Rose was born on the Fourth of July (in 1921), which is fitting, for he’s All-American in the best sense of the term: a truly unprejudiced man.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • For the musical Angel (Minskoff; May 10, ’78; 5), Peter Udell cowrote the book with Frings and contributed the lyrics, Gary Geld did the music, and Philip Rose produced and directed. It was the third Udell–Geld–Rose collaboration, the team having already done the long-running Purlie and Shenandoah. The musical was announced (under the tit…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
  • Other original Broadway book musicals: Amen Corner, book by Philip Rose and Peter Udell, music by Gary Sherman, lyrics by Udell; Marilyn, book by Patricia Michaels, music and lyrics by an assortment of five different writers; Doonesbury, book and lyrics by Gary Trudeau, music by Elizabeth Swados; The Rink, book by Terrence McNally, music…ebooks/Singer, Barry/Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer.txt
  • Produced New York, Majestic Theatre, January 5, 1975. Shenandoah (1975). Book: James Lee Barrett, Peter Udell, and Philip Rose; lyrics: Peter Udell; music: Gary Geld. Based on an original screenplay by James Lee Barrett. Musical drama about a wealthy father and his sonstheatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
  • _ book by Philip Rose and— Udell : based on the 1843 novel 4 Christmas Carol ne Charles Dickens —theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
  • its design image, a very special and attractive style. There are difficulties. The book by Philip Rose and Peter Udell is as pedestrian as a tortoise, and Udell’s lyrics prove scarcely more nifty. The music by Garry Sherman, ranging from disco to gospel, is brash, electric, loud, over-theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.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 — book writer, 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.

Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.