Production Staff
Marc Blitzstein
Bookwriter
Composer
Lyricist
George Avakian
Producer
Leonard Bernstein
Music Consultant
Leonard Bernstein was born on August 25, 1918, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He took piano lessons as a boy and attended the Garrison and Boston Latin Schools. At Harvard University, he studied with Walter Piston, Edward Burlingame-Hill, and A. Tillman Merritt, among others. Before graduating in 1939, he made an unofficial conducting debut with his own incidental music to "The Birds," and directed and performed in Marc Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock." Then at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, he studied piano with Isabella Vengerova, conducting with Fritz Reiner, and orchestration with Randall Thompson.
In 1940, he studied at the ... read more
Ron Bruncati
Production Stage Manager
Robert Fishko
Producer
Jane Friedman
Press Representative
Samuel J. Friedman
Press Representative
Gershon Kingsley
Musical Director
Rhoda Levine
Choreographer
John Prescott
Producer
David Rubinson
Producer
Howard Da Silva
Director
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