Also credited on5 works
Let’s Face It
Mexican Hayride
Peggy-Ann
Gay Divorce
Best Foot Forward
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 literature6 passages
- The Garrick Gaieties was an impudent, high-spirited modestly mounted revue created by and featuring young members of the Theatre Guild company to help raise money for tapestries at the Guild’s new Guild Theatre on West 52nd Street. The entertainment, however, served equally as a showcase for the talents of the songwriting team of Richard…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- Long before winning notice with their songs for The Garrick Gaieties , Rodgers and Hart — along with librettist Herbert Fields — had tried unsuccessfully to interest producers in their version of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. By 1927, however, they had little trouble getting Lew Fields to present it at the Vand…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- There were to be two performances, matinee and evening, May 17, 1925, at the Garrick Theater, and the revue was to be called The Garrick Gaieties. It had a cast of unknown performers, many of whom were to go on to fame and fortune. Lee Strasberg was in it. So was Sandy Meisner. The stage managers were Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford. I…ebooks/Jones, Tom/Making Musicals_ An Informal Introduction to the World of Musical Theater - Tom Jones.txt
- struggle, success finally arrived in 1925 with The Garrick Gaieties (and the song hit “Manhattan’). Rodgers was to remain active along Broadway for a full 60 years. Early musicals included The Girl Friend (1926), A Connecticut Yankee (1927), On Your Toes (1936), Babes in Arms (1937), The Boys from Syracuse (1938), and Pal Joey (1940). Rod…theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
- "The Garrick Gaieties"(1930), she appeared in "Company's Coming," "Talent," "Bell, Book and Candle"(on tour), "The Second Man," "Wonderful Town" and "Auntie Mame." In 1933 she went to Hollywood and became one of its brightest stars. She is survived by her husband of 35 years, producer Frederick Brisson, and a son.theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1976-77 Season, v. 33 (Willis).txt
- Larry and Dick had written something iike twenty-five amateur shows when the Theatre Guild came through and gave them their big break with The Garrick Gaieties. A few of the many talented young performers who helped make the Gaieties the sensation of New York in the summer of 1925: Sterling Holloway (far right); Philip Loeb (the one with…theatre-pdfs/Thou Swell Thou Witty-The Life and Lyrics of Lorenz Hart - Hart, Dorothy.txt
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