Also credited on2 works
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In the literature8 passages
- By 1969, Stuart Ostrow certainly had taken his lumps as a producer. His first effort was We Take the Town, a 1962 musical in which Robert Preston portrayed Pancho Villa. The score had music by Harold Karr and lyrics by Matt Dubey, who’d previously done the 1956 Ethel Merman flop Happy Hunting.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- The fights between the team of writers and the director continued. Producer Stuart Ostrow had to support one or the other. He chose the man who’d already won five Tony Awards starting with The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees. In the end, the musical, book, and score all got Tony nominated and lost, while Fosse won in his Director and Choreog…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- At first glance, this honor should go to Stuart Ostrow for Pippin, for he revived the Broadway-show television commercial. He revolutionized the way shows were marketed—and added to the budget. Soon the public was assuming that if a show didn’t have a commercial, it simply wasn’t worthy of its attention.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- The show was composed of three one-act musicals. As producer Stuart Ostrow said, “So many musicals had second-act trouble that I thought if we just did one-act musicals, we’d eliminate that problem.”ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
- Twelve days later, B.D. Wong, star of M. Butterfly (which co-producer Stuart Ostrow felt had been depoliticized by supposedly more commercially minded co-producer David Geffen), wrote to AEA President Colleen Dewhurst to enlist her support “on an issue of racism” and to oppose “a practice I thought was dying.” Wong urged Equity members of…ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
- Producer Stuart Ostrow was “knocked out” by this aspiring actress’s singing voice but informed her, “The part calls for an aristocratic Mexican lady.”ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
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