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Stephen Longstreet

Shows · Stephen Longstreet

Book Writer 1907–2002

Stephen Longstreet (April 18, 1907 – February 20, 2002) was an American writer and artist.

Also credited on2 works

High Button Shoes
Jerome Robbins’ Broadway

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 literature1 passages

  • and Dorothy Fields, music by Irving Berlin), and High Button Shoes (1947; book by Stephen Longstreet, based on his novel; music by Jule Styne). The fifties continued the uptrend in American musicals and the strong dance basis of Oklahoma. Pal Joey (1940; book by John O'Hara, based on his stories; lyrics and music by Rodgers and Hart) had…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 — book writer — 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.

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