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Robert Jess Roth

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Robert Jess Roth is an American director who staged Disney's first Broadway musical, Beauty and the Beast (1994), and the musical Lestat.

Also credited on2 works

Beauty and the Beast
Lestat

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 literature3 passages

  • That’s the question that freelance director Robert Jess Roth kept asking Michael Eisner, the chief operating officer of the Walt Disney Company.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • BROADWAY PRODUCTIONS FROM PAST SEASONS BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Music, Alan Menken; Lyrics, Howard Ashman, Tim Rice; Book, Linda Woolverton; Director, Robert Jess Roth; Orchestrations, Danny Troob; Musical Supervision/Vocal Arrangements, David Friedman; Musical Director/Incidental Arrangements, Michael Kosarin; Choreography, Matt West; Sets,…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1995-96 Season, v.52 (Willis).txt
  • BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Music, Alan Menken; Lyrics, Howard Ashman, Tim Rice; Book, Linda Woolverton; Director, Robert Jess Roth; Orchestrations, Danny Troob; Musical Supervision/Vocal Arrangements, David Friedman; Musical Director/Incidental Arrangements, Michael Kosarin; Choreography, Matt West; Set, Stan Meyer; Costumes, Ann Hould-Ward; Li…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 2000-01 Season, v. 57 (Willis).txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

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 — director — 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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