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William Dumaresq

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LyricistBook Writer

Also credited on1 work

The Human Comedy

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In the literature1 passages

  • The libretto was by William Dumaresq, and a libretto it was, for MacDermot had turned Saroyan’s lyrical work into an opera, all-sung, but with a sound unlike any other Broadway opera. The Human Comedy premiered in late 1983 at the Public’s Anspacher Theatre, where Hair, another musical set during wartime, had opened, receiving generally s…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
  • Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
  • Any biography.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — lyricist, book writer — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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