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Rob Jess Roth

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Composer

Rob Jess Roth is an American director who staged Disney's first Broadway musical, Beauty and the Beast (1994), and the Elton John–Tim Rice Aida.

In the literature1 passages

  • Elaborate Lives represented a reuniting of many of the disparate talents who'd helped Disney conquer Broadway over the last five years, including Elton John and Tim Rice, The Lion King's for-therecord composers; Linda Woolverton, Beauty and the Beast's primary scenarist; and Rob Jess Roth, that show's Broadway director. Elaborate Lives al…ebooks/Singer, Barry/Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer.txt

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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.
  • Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
  • 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 — composer — 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.

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