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Robert Longbottom

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DirectorChoreographer b. 1957

Robert Longbottom (born March 1957) is a New York City-based choreographer and director, primarily for theatre and opera.

Also credited on3 works

Flower Drum Song
Side Show
Flower Drum Song (2002 Revival)

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 literature8 passages

  • Robert Longbottom cleanly staged the show on sets of movable bleachers. After the British Invasion in which musicals had a tire ascend, a barricade built, a chandelier fall, and both a helicopter and a mansion rise, Side Show seemed to be skimping. Tickets to Broadway musicals were now up to seventy-five dollars, and while audiences never…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
  • 36 The Scarlet Pimpernel's tenacity extended to a mid-run revamping of the entire show under the direction of Robert Longbottom. This "new" Pimpernel opened in November 1998 to more respectable reviews. "Restructured, rewritten, restaged and significantly recast," wrote Ben Brantley in his New York Times review on November S...... what wa…ebooks/Singer, Barry/Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer.txt
  • the composer, bookwriter, lyricist, and director/choreographer Robert Longbottom.ebooks/Unknown/Commercial Theater Institute Guide to Producing Plays and Musicals, The - Unknown.txt
  • PAGEANT Music, Albert Evans; Lyrics/Book, Bill Russell and Frank Kelly; Conception /Direction/ Choreography, Robert Longbottom; Co-Choreographer, Tony Parise; Musical Director/ Orchestrations/Arrangements/ Supervision, James Raitt; Set, Daniel Ettinger; Costumes, Gregg Barnes; Lighting, Timothy Hunter; Hairstylist, Lazaro Arencibia; Casti…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1991-1992 season, v. 48 (Willis).txt
  • Music, Frank Wildhorn; Lyrics/Book, Nan Knighton; Based on the novel by Baroness Orczy; Directors, Peter Hunt (original), Robert Longbottom (re-theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1998-99 Season, v. 55 (Willis).txt
  • FLOWER DRUM SONG by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein; Book, David Henry Hwang; Director, Robert Longbottom; Sets, Robin Wagner; Lighting, Brian Nason; Costumes, Gregg Barnes; Sound, Jon Gottlieb; Cast: Sandra Allen, Mayumi Legaspi Ando, Ronald M. Banks, Charlene Carabeo, Rich Ceraulo, Eric Chan, Marcus Choi, Michael Dow,theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 2001-02 Season, v. 58 (Willis).txt

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