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Rob Iscove

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Rob Iscove is an American director-choreographer credited with the 1979 Sandy Duncan revival of Peter Pan and the musical Copperfield; he went on to a screen-directing career.

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Peter Pan

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  • EBB: I can name quite a few people who have come and gone on that project. Fosse and Madonna. Rob Iscove. Then there were people like Nicholas Hytner and Wendy Wasserstein. They had written a script for it. Nick Hytner had shopped it around Hollywood with him directing and Charlize Theron to star in it. But nobody picked it up. At one poi…ebooks/Lawrence, Greg/Colored Lights_ Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz - Greg Lawrence & John Kander & Fred Ebb.txt
  • Directed by Rob Iscove, who had been credited with the Sandy Duncan revival of Peter Pan (although his work had been fixed by Ron Field), Copperfield opened on Broadway to dreadful reviews. It was not quite as terrible as all that, with several catchy if derivative ditties, but it lacked any real inspiration as far as rethinking the novel…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
  • funny. Rob Iscove’s choreography departs from the show’s norm, in that it seems to have been culled from flops rather than hits.theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
  • placed the whole thing under the charge of Rob Iscove, director/choreographer of the 1979 revival of Peter Pan. Except Iscove had been tossed from Peter Pan, as everyone knew (except Gregory and Merrick?), with Ron Field publicly—but without billing—stepping in to “fix” the show for Broadway. Oh, well. Making their Broadway debuts were so…theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
  • Much the same can be said of Rose, who is giving what is at best a routine performance for him. In fact, in this production, staged by Rob Iscove along the lines originally laid down by Robbins, it is the sumptuous scenery, lighting and special effects, along with the wonderful costumes, which include a splendidly greedy green crocodile a…theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt

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