Walter Bobbie

On stage 10 productions, 47 years

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Worked with more than once7 names

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Also credited on5 works

Bright Star
Chicago (1996 Revival)
Footloose
High Fidelity
Irving Berlin’s White Christmas

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In the literature8 passages

• Cast: Peter Gallagher, Nathan Lane, Josie de Guzman, Faith Prince, Walter Bobbie, John Carpenter, Steve Ryan, Ernie Sabella, J.K. Simmons,ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• Welz approached Walter Bobbie to direct the show. When Walter fell out, I was asked for suggestions and Lonny Price immediately came to mind. We had worked together on two concert productions, Pal Joey and Annie Get Your Gun . He knew how to get it done.ebooks/Lupone, Patti/Patti LuPone - Patti Lupone.txt
• Hello, suckers! You know, Ann, Walter Bobbie, Barry, Fran, and me, we all won Tony Awards for Chicago. And you can win one too: All you have to do is a little grave robbing!ebooks/Portantiere, Gerard Alessandrini;Michael/B0030EGEYY EBOK - Gerard Alessandrini;Michael Portantiere.txt
• After Guys and Dolls in short order, you were at Rainbow & Stars doing A Grand Night for Singing , directed by Walter Bobbie .ebooks/Shapiro, Eddie/Nothing Like a Dame_ Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater - Eddie Shapiro.txt
• While Chicago was the first large-scale musical Walter Bobbie directed on Broadway, he did technically make his Broadway debut as a director on the Rodgers and Hammerstein revue A Grand Night For Singing at the Criterion Center Stage Right.ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer/Untold Stories of Broadway, Part 1, The - Jennifer Tepper.txt
• I remember when I designed the first national tour of Chicago, after the Broadway revival. Charlotte d’Amboise took it out and was Roxie. Walter Bobbie, the director, encouraged me to think up new looks. Immediately, we realized the error of our way out of town. We called up New York and said, “Can you send us some of the old stuff… this…ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer/Untold Stories of Broadway, Part 1, The - Jennifer Tepper.txt

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