Will Rogers

On stage 8 productions, 16 years

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Ziegfeld Follies

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In the literature8 passages

• Even as lighthearted a work as The Will Rogers Follies, with book by Peter Stone and score by Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Cy Coleman, was developed as a "concept musical," the concept being that the life of Will Rogers would be presented not in a conven tional biographical narrative but rather as a series of revue sketches, in the mann…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
• After Coleman returned to work with Comden and Green on the Tony-winning The Will Rogers Follies in 1991, he once again gave a break to a relative unknown lyricist, Ira Gasman. His sole theatrical credit was the 1973 cabaret show What’s a Nice Country Like You Doing in a State Like This? which had had an off-Broadway run in 1985. The Life…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• Through it all, he proved his range. Does the man who created the jaunty polka “Our Favorite Son” for The Will Rogers Follies seem to be the same composer of the tender waltz “Real Live Girl” in Little Me? The operetta-infused “Our Private World” in On the Twentieth Century would never be confused with the aggressively brassy “Big Spender…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
• But the Tony voters gave the Best Musical prize to The Will Rogers Follies , a nice enough musical but no world-beater. It managed to run a quarter as long as Miss Saigon— the first show to run four thousand performances and not win a Best Musical Tony.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
• ERIC STERN is a musical director whose credits include The Will Rogers Follies , Legs Diamond , Rags , Sunday in the Park with George , and the revivals of The Most Happy Fella , Carousel , Gypsy , Showboat , and The King and I.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• PETER STONE is president of the Dramatists Guild. He has written the books for Kean , Skyscraper , 1776 , Two by Two , Woman of the Year , The Will Rogers Follies , My One and Only , Sugar , and Titanic .ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt

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