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Richard Barstow

Shows · Richard Barstow

Choreographer 1908–1981

Also credited on1 work

New Faces Of 1952

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In the literature3 passages

  • During the tryout, choreographer Richard Barstow was replaced by Frank Wagner, and a number of sketches and songs were cut, including: “Producer’s Office” (sketch by Richard Myers and Jack Lawrence), “Time Magazine” (lyric and music by Allan Jeffreys, Maxwell Grant, and Jack Wilson), “Stay on the Subject” (lyric by Marshall Barer, music b…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Two on the Aisle’ s and New Faces’ choreographers were, respectively, the little known Ted Cappy and Richard Barstow. But Two’s Company’ s Jerome Robbins links us to the 1950s’ salient identification as the first decade in which a brace of star choreographers became the musical’s newest “authors.” Irving Berlin’s Call Me Madam (1950) was…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
  • Music and Lyrics, Irving Berlin; Book, Herbert Fields, Dorothy Fields; Staged and Directed by Richard Barstow; Choreography, Bert Michaels; Musical Director, Jay Blackton; Scenery, Karl Eigsti; Lighting, Richard Nelson; Costumes, Sara Brook; Production Su-theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1978-79, v. 35 (Willis).txt

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