Also credited on2 works
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
- After seeing his novel adapted into a successful musical for which he cowrote the script, Richard Bissell was inspired to write Say, Darling , a book about a writer’s observations when his novel is adapted into a musical. This slightly Pirandelloesque approach resulted in the book Say, Darling being adapted into a semi-musical, also calle…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Tony Awards : Best Musical (The Pajama Game ); Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Carol Haney ); Best Authors of a Musical (George Abbott and Richard Bissell ); Best Producers of a Musical (Frederick Brisson , Robert Griffith , and Harold S. Prince ); Best Composer and Lyricist (Richard Adler and Jerry Ross ); Best Choreographer (Bob Fos…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Richard Bissell’s 1953 novel 7½ Cents was about labor union problems in a pajama factory in the Midwest; in 1954, he and George Abbott adapted the novel into the libretto for The Pajama Game ; and in 1957 Bissell wrote the novel Say, Darling , which was based on his experience of adapting 7½ Cents into The Pajama Game . To bring matters f…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Richard Adler and Jerry Ross made a rousing musical, The Pajama Game from Richard Bissell's bestseller about labor relations, Seven and a Half Cents. A year later they repeated their success with Damn Yankees, based on Douglass Wallop's The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant. Both these shows appeared within a few years of the novels' runs…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- When Frank Loesser was approached to write the score for the musical adaptation of Richard Bissell’s novel, 7½ Cents, he had to turn it down, but he did recommend a young team, Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, who had never before written songs for a book musical. Their work — including such hits as “Hey, There” and “Hernando’s Hideaway” — w…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- In 1958, Richard Bissell’s novel, Say, Darling, which the author had based on his experience with The Pajama Game, was itself turned into a musical by Bissell, his wife Marian, and Abe Burrows. Burrows also directed, and Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green supplied nine songs. The show ran 10 months.ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
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