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Richard Maltby Jr.

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Richard Eldridge Maltby Jr. (born October 6, 1937) is an American theatre director and producer, lyricist, and screenwriter. He conceived and directed the only two musical revues to win the Tony Award for Best Musical: Ain't Misbehavin' (1978: Tony, N.Y. Drama Critics, Outer Critics, Drama Desk Awards, also Tony Award for Best Director) and Fosse (1999: Tony, Outer Critics, Drama Desk Awards).

Also credited on8 works

Ain't Misbehavin'
Fosse
Song and Dance
Miss Saigon
The Pirate Queen
Miss Saigon (2017 Revival)
Big
Nick & Nora

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In the literature8 passages

  • How could Richard Maltby Jr. be Rookie of the Year, given that he’d been around Broadway for nearly two decades?ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • “Producer for producer, Garth was the best,” says Richard Maltby Jr., who worked on Drabinsky’s final Broadway outing, Fosse , in 1999. “He was totally committed to creating a work of art. He would do anything to make it happen, spending whatever money was necessary.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • RICHARD MALTBY JR. cowrote the lyrics for Miss Saigon , directed and conceived Ain’t Misbehavin’ , directed Song and Dance , and wrote the lyrics for Big .ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
  • RICHARD MALTBY JR.: Yet there was an inexplicable hostility to Big , even before previews. In the old days, a big new show would be welcomed with excitement. If you got a bad review—it happened with Fiddler ; Hello, Dolly! ; Forum —you did some work, changed the show a little, and it became a hit. But with Big , there was all this sniping…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
  • U.S. director-lyricist Richard Maltby Jr. had predicted, “When Miss Saigon opens in New York, there’s going to be a great sense of pain. This is the kind of show American musicals became great on, a popular entertainment on the major American event of contemporary history. We should have looked at ourselves in this way. There’ll be a lot…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
  • Next? Laurents considers Richard Maltby Jr. (Baby, Song and Dance) the second-best Broadway lyricist after Sondheim. Onlookers wonder how the bespectacled, rumpled and languorously wry Maltby will get on with the ship-shape Strouse. It's not a marriage made in heaven. "We didn't get along at all,"' says Strouse. "He's totally unfocused, h…ebooks/Suskin, Steven/B001T4YWBO EBOK - Steven Suskin.txt

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