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Tyrone Guthrie

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Director 1900–1971

Sir William Tyrone Guthrie (2 July 1900 – 15 May 1971) was an English theatrical director instrumental in the founding of the Stratford Festival of Canada, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre at his family's ancestral home, Annaghmakerrig, near Newbliss in County Monaghan, Ireland. He is famous for his original approach to Shakespearean and modern drama.

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Candide

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  • Direction : Tyrone Guthrie; Producers : Ethel Linder Riener in association with Lester Osterman Jr.; Choreography : Uncredited (see below); Scenery : Oliver Smith; Costumes : Irene Sharaff; Lighting : Paul Morrison; Musical Direction : Samuel Krachmalnickebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Harold Clurman dubbed Gower “the Tyrone Guthrie of musical comedy direction,” 243 and rightly so, for he had shaped the entire production with something far more than technical skill. While combining elements of old-fashioned glamour with a salute to the adventure within the hustle-bustle of urban life, he had directed with affection, hum…ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
  • “The theatre is a powerful sexual stimulant, but when its power is not misused it is a powerful awakener of other ideas.”—stage director SIR TYRONE GUTHRIEebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
  • Rossi, Alfred. Astonish Us in the Morning: Tyrone Guthrie Remembered . London: Hutchinson, 1977.ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
  • Michael Langham, who later became artistic director of the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, was then directing at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Canada. An Englishman who had never done a musical, he was asked by Cohen to direct Baker Street. He did not, however, stay with the show for long. Coopersmith remembers that "Langha…ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt
  • Fourteen years later, in 1952, the great English director Tyrone Guthrie, who had directed Gordon in her London triumph as Mrs. Pinchwife, was in New York to direct Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera. He had rented a house near the Kanins' in Turtle Bay. After dinner one night, they came up with a project in which he could again direct her:…ebooks/Kissel, Howard/David Merrick - The Abominable Showman_ The Unauthorized Biography (Applause Books) - Howard Kissel.txt

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