Also credited on1 work
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In the literature6 passages
- [211] Vida Hope, “ The Boy Friend on Broadway”, Plays and Players , Christmas 1954, p. 12.ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- Direction : Vida Hope; Producers : Cy Feuer and Ernest G. Martin; Choreography : John Heawood; Scenery and Costumes : Reginald Woolley (New York Supervising Designers: Robert Mackintosh for Costumes; Feder for Scenery and Lighting); Musical Direction : Anton Coppola (conducting the orchestra of Paul McGrane and His Bearcats)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Despite its well-documented chaotic pre-Broadway tryout (which led to both Sandy Wilson and director Vida Hope being barred from the theatre and resulted in coproducer Cy Feuer taking over directorial duties), the musical was well received by the New York critics. John Chapman in the Daily News found it “happy, amiable and funny,” and Col…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- First came the minor headache of what I call “overdirecting.” Vida Hope had the idea that Julie Andrews had to duplicate the identical stage movements and gestures of Anne Rogers, the London Polly. The rehearsals were painful to watch. There was Vida telling Julie to move her head to the right and her hands up and to the left, in a gestur…ebooks/Feuer, Cy/B003L77WUK EBOK - Cy Feuer & Ken Gross.txt
- The real trouble surfaced in the second week of rehearsal. I came into the theater one day and saw Vida Hope rehearsing a whole new scene with a brand new number that I had never seen before.ebooks/Feuer, Cy/B003L77WUK EBOK - Cy Feuer & Ken Gross.txt
- 7. Vida Hope, ‘The Boy Friend on Broadway’, Plays and Players , Christmas 1954, p. 12.ebooks/Wright, Adrian/Tanner's Worth of Tune_ Rediscovering the post-war British Musical, A - Adrian Wright.txt
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