Scott Ellis

On stage 2 productions, 4 years

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Also credited on12 works

She Loves Me (2016 Revival)
Tootsie
Curtains
Kiss Me, Kate (2019 Revival)
Steel Pier
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
1776
Art
Doubt
Fallen Angels
On the Twentieth Century
Pirates! The Penzance Musical

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In the literature8 passages

• We’ll never know. Stone died in 2003 and Ebb in 2004, so Curtains appeared to be permanently closed. But Scott Ellis, who’d directed Kander and Ebb off-Broadway in And the World Goes ’Round and on Broadway in Steel Pier, itched for the chance to stage it. Who could write both book and new lyrics?ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• SCOTT ELLIS directed A Month in the Country , She Loves Me , Steel Pier , and the 1997 revival of 1776 .ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• SCOTT ELLIS: You can get the best people in the business. It doesn’t guarantee you anything. You work just as hard on the shows that fail as the shows that succeed. It’s a crapshoot. You never can tell.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• SCOTT ELLIS: I auditioned over and over again until I got a part in The Rink . I was one of six guys with Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera. We sat in a circle and read the script while Kander and Ebb sang through the score. I stepped back from the moment and just looked around the room. This was what I had always dreamed of.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• KANDER: Oh, I thought it was touching and Scott Ellis delivered the line perfectly.ebooks/Lawrence, Greg/Colored Lights_ Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz - Greg Lawrence & John Kander & Fred Ebb.txt
• EBB: Scott Ellis, David Thompson, and Susan Stroman brought us the revival of Flora, the Red Menace. We didn’t solicit it.ebooks/Lawrence, Greg/Colored Lights_ Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz - Greg Lawrence & John Kander & Fred Ebb.txt

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