Also credited on3 works
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
- Then, in late 1967, 1 was asked to write yet another musical book. A teacher turned songwriter, Sherman Edwards, had written a musical about the Declaration of Independence. Stuart Ostrow wanted to produce it, but he felt the book needed work. I tried desperately to avoid it. It seemed to me audiences would never go for a play where an al…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
- However, after nearly a year of persuasion, I went down to Stuart’s office in the Paramount Building. Sherman Edwards, a very brusque man, walked in. He sat down at the piano and, in a rotten voice, sang “Sit Down, John, Sit Down.” And I was entranced. I learned more about the Continental Congress from that song than in all my years in sc…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
- 1776 was the only musical by Sherman Edwards, who died in 1981. During the Broadway engagement, Daniels was succeeded by John Cunningham, Da Silva by Jay Garner, and David by John Cullum. The touring company, which traveled for two years two months, included Patrick Bedford (Adams), Rex Everhart (Franklin), George Hearn (Dickinson), and J…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- Musicals were now taking on visual plans that differed radically from the fifties format of backdrops with front pieces on wagons. Thus, Sherman Edwards’ 1776 (1969) took place almost entirely in another unit set, this one so unobtrusive that its special design feature was a little calendar upstage whose pages turned, inexorably yet suspe…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
- Music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards; book by Peter Stone, based on the original concept by Edwardsebooks/Wright, Adrian/West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright.txt
- dor Theatre, January 22, 1969. 2776 (1969). Book: Peter Stone; music and lyrics: Sherman Edwards. Musical drama about the signing of the American Declaration of Independence. Musical numbers: "Sit Down, John," "Piddle, Twiddle and Re-theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).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.
- 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 — composer, lyricist — 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.