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Ted Cappy

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Choreographer

Ted Cappy was an American choreographer whose Broadway credits include Two on the Aisle (1951) and Three Wishes for Jamie.

Also credited on2 works

Two on the Aisle
Three Wishes for Jamie “A New Musical Play”

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In the literature7 passages

  • Direction : Abe Burrows; Producer : Arthur Lesser; Choreography : Ted Cappy; Scenery and Lighting : Howard Bay; Costumes : Joan Personette; Musical Direction : Herbert Greeneebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • During the tryout, choreographer Valerie Bettis was replaced by Ted Cappy; the dance number “After Hours” and the sequence “Summer House” (which included the songs “So Far, So Good” and “Everlasting”) were deleted (but “Everlasting” was retained as a stand-alone number). “So Far, So Good” was a revised version of the song “Give Me a Song…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Direction : Abe Burrows; Producers : Albert Lewis and Arthur Lewis; Choreography : Ted Cappy, Herbert Ross, and Eugene Loring; Scenery : George Jenkins; Costumes : Miles White; Lighting : Feder; Musical Direction : Joseph Littauebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • The production included music by Francis Poulenc and choreography by Ted Cappy. In the late 1950s, Stephen Sondheim considered writing a musical version of the play; when the rights weren’t available, the project was abandoned.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Two on the Aisle’ s and New Faces’ choreographers were, respectively, the little known Ted Cappy and Richard Barstow. But Two’s Company’ s Jerome Robbins links us to the 1950s’ salient identification as the first decade in which a brace of star choreographers became the musical’s newest “authors.” Irving Berlin’s Call Me Madam (1950) was…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
  • directed by Burt Shevelove (replacing Busby Berkeley) _ choreographed by Donald Saddler (replacing Busby Bereley | assisted by Ted Cappy, Mary Ann Niles, and Bobby Van) produced by Pyxidium, Ltd. (Cyma Rubin, replacing the oe : billing “Cyma Rubin and Harry Rigby present”) -theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt

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