Russel Crouse

On stage 1 production

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Also credited on7 works

Red, Hot, and Blue
Hooray For What!
Call Me Madam
The Sound of Music
Mr. President
The Gang’s All Here
Anything Goes

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In the literature8 passages

• The 1987 revival contained yet another new book, this time by Russel Crouse’s son Timothy and John Weidman. 14 This book retained two of the interpolations from 1962 (“It’s De-Lovely” and “Friendship”), and added two other Porter tunes from shows that had not even appeared on Broadway, “Goodbye, Little Dream, Goodbye” from O Mistress Mine…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Also in contrast to Anything Goes , whose second act was barely a gleam in the eyes of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse at the time of their first rehearsal and with deletions and substitutions continuing into the Broadway run, Kiss Me, Kate could boast a completed book by the end of May 1948 before auditions would begin the following mon…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• FILM (Paramount 1936) : Cast: Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charlie Ruggles, Ida Lupino, and Margaret Dumont. Screenplay by Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse, and Guy Bolton. Produced by Benjamin Glazer. Directed by Lewis Milestone. Songs (from Anything Goes ): “Anything Goes” [fragment] (Merman), “I Get a Kick Out of You” (Merman), “There’ll Al…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• Source: Original book by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, revised by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• The source for Strip for Action was Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse’s play of the same title which opened on September 30, 1942, at the National (now Nederlander) Theatre for 110 performances and starred Keenan Wynn and Joey Faye (the latter also appeared in the musical version).ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse’s book seems to have originated as a promising satire of the nouveau-riche obsession with royalty and high society, but it soon lost its satiric edge and instead concentrated on the well-worn Broadway routines of romance and easy laughs.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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