Also credited on2 works
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In the literature8 passages
- That’s why book writer Sherman Yellen was wise to stress that Mayer Rothschild (Hal Linden) didn’t only want a fortune for himself, his wife, and their five sons. He was desperate to change life not only for the oppressed Jews then living in eighteenth-century Frankfurt, but also forever everywhere else in the world.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
- We were thinking traditionally, so we thought, “We’ve got to have a love story in it.” So Sherman Yellen, who wrote the book, with all of our agreement wrote a love story in the second act for one of the sons, Nathan Rothschild, who goes to England. In real life, he did meet Hannah, they fell in love, and they got married. It wasn’t until…ebooks/Lambert, Philip/B00590X4L8 EBOK - Philip Lambert.txt
- Hal Prince is working on more first act changes. He doesn't mince words about what he doesn't like but he is not stingy with praise. He tells Sherman Yellen that one new scene "loses me on the first line" but the ending, he says, is "marvelous, absolutely marvelous!" Sheldon Harnick is working on lyrics for a new song for Henry. As the ma…ebooks/Suskin, Steven/B001T4YWBO EBOK - Steven Suskin.txt
- Sherman Yellen finds Prince "a marvelous catalyst for me." He takes the changes in stride. "I don't mind the harshest cut as long as it's just and intelligent."ebooks/Suskin, Steven/B001T4YWBO EBOK - Steven Suskin.txt
- John Lennon, Jacques Levy, Leonard Melfi, David Newman and _ Robert Benton, Sam Shepard, Clovis Trouille, oo ees and Sherman Yellentheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
- tists, but by the following winter they'd been displaced by Sherman Yellen—whose only musical credit, The Rothschilds, was not much of a credit. As director, Adler lined up the up-and-coming Michael Bennett. After codirecting the 1971 Follies with Hal Prince, Bennett had staged the 1971 comedy hit Twigs and performed an admirable if unsuc…theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
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