Robert Alton

On stage 1 production

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Also credited on14 works

Anything Goes
Between the Devil
By Jupiter
Du Barry Was a Lady
Hazel Flagg
Higher and Higher
Hooray For What!
Leave It to Me!
Me and Juliet
Pal Joey
Panama Hattie
The Show Is On
The Vamp
Too Many Girls

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In the literature8 passages

• Direction : Book directed by David Alexander (entire production supervised by Robert Alton); Producers : Jule Styne and Leonard Key in association with Anthony B. Farrell; Choreography : Robert Alton; Scenery : Oliver Smith; Costumes : Miles White; Lighting : Peggy Clark; Musical Direction : Max Methebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Tony Awards : Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Helen Gallagher ); Best Choreographer (Robert Alton ); Best Conductor and Musical Director (Max Meth )ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Direction : Book directed by David Alexander (production supervised by Robert Alton); Producers : Jule Styne in association with Anthony B. Farrell; Choreography : Robert Alton; Scenery and Lighting : Harry Horner; Costumes : Miles White; Musical Direction : Pembroke Davenportebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Direction : George Abbott; Producers : Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II; Choreography : Robert Alton; Scenery and Lighting : Jo Mielziner; Costumes : Irene Sharaff; Musical Direction : Salvatore Dell’Isolaebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Direction : “Production” directed by David Alexander and “entire production” supervised by Robert Alton; Producers : Oscar Lerman, Martin Cohen, and Alexander Carson (Manuel D. Herbert, Associate Producer); Choreography : Robert Alton; Scenery and Costumes : Raoul Pene du Bois; Lighting : Uncredited; Musical Direction : Milton Rosenstockebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• The critics were divided over Robert Alton and Raoul Pene du Bois’s contributions. Watts found Alton’s dances “invariably humorous, dynamic and exhilarating,” but Atkinson said they had an “empty, mechanical style.” As for du Bois’s décor, John McClain in the New York Journal-American said his concoctions were “extravagant and quite authe…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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