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Stanley Prager

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Director 1917–1972 On stage 19401954

Stanley Prager (January 8, 1917 – January 18, 1972) was an American actor and a television and theatre director.

On stage 5 productions, 14 years

1940 Big White Fog Lincoln Theatre · Original · directed by Powell Lindsay 64 perf.
1951 Two on the Aisle Mark Hellinger Theatre · Original · directed by Abe Burrows 281 perf.
1952 Two’s Company Alvin Theatre · Original · directed by Production supervised by John Murray Anderson (sketches directed by Jules Dassin) 90 perf.
1953 Room Service Playhouse Theatre · Revival · directed by Mortimer Offner 16 perf.
1954 The Pajama Game St. James Theatre · Original · directed by George Abbott & Jerome Robbins 1,063 perf.

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Worked with more than once7 names

Ralph Dunn 2 productions
Phil Gerard 2 productions
John Kelly 2 productions
Buzz Miller 2 productions
Betty Buday 2 productions
Basha Regis 2 productions
Art Carroll 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 3 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

Also credited on2 works

Let It Ride
Minnie’s Boys

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

  • The director, Stanley Prager, called me the next day and said he would like to give me the part, but I had to come back for another audition. I did, and everybody was smiling. I thought I had it.ebooks/Burnett, Carol/This Time Together - Carol Burnett.txt
  • Cast : Bert Lahr , Dolores Gray , Elliott Reid, Colette Marchand, J. C. McCord, Stanley Prager, Kathryne Mylorie, Alan LeRoy, Patricia Tobin, Robert Gallagher, Richard Gray, Larry Laurence, Arthur Rubin, Walter Kelvin, Frank Reynolds, Gordon Hamilton, Bob Emmett, Jeannette Aquilina, Vera Lee, Gloria Danyl, Margery Beddow, Jane Mason, Rich…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Cast : Bette Davis , Hiram Sherman, David Burns, Bill Callahan, Stanley Prager, Ellen Hanley, George S. Irving, Maria Karnilova, Buzz Miller, Oliver Wakefield, Peter Kelley, Robert Orton’s Teen Aces, Nora Kaye; Singers: Art Carroll, Clifford Fearl, Bill Krach, Robert Neukum, Franklin Neil, Sue Hight, Lenore Korman, Tina Louise, May Muth,…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Cast : Eddie Foy Jr. (Hines), Stanley Prager (Prez), Gordon Woodburn (Joe), Ralph Dunn (Hasler), Carol Haney (Gladys), John Raitt (Sid Sorokin), Reta Shaw (Mabel), Jack Drummond (First Helper), Buzz Miller (Second Helper), Ralph Chambers (Charlie), Janis Paige (Babe Williams), Thelma Pelish (Mae), Marion Colby (Brenda), Rae Allen (Poopsie…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Cast : Paul Hartman (Hines), Stanley Prager (Prez), Sam Kirkham (Joe), Ralph W. Chambers (Hasler), Pat Stanley (Gladys), Larry Douglas (Sid Sorokin), Marguerite Shaw (Mabel), Richard France (First Helper), Cy Young (Second Helper), Eugene Wood (Charlie), Jane Kean (Babe Williams), Thelma Pelish (Mae), Ann Buckles (Brenda), Chele Graham (P…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Act One: “The Pajama Game” (Paul Hartman); “Racing with the Clock” (Girls, Boys); “A New Town Is a Blue Town” (Larry Douglas); “I’m Not at All in Love” (Jane Kean, Girls); “I’ll Never Be Jealous Again” (Paul Hartman, Marguerite Shaw); “Hey, There” (Larry Douglas); “Her Is” (Stanley Prager, Pat Stanley); “Sleep-Tite” (Jane Kean, Boys, Girl…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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