Production Staff
Aristophanes
Source Material
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Bulfinch
Source Material
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E. Y. Harburg
Bookwriter
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Lyricist
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E.Y. Harburg
Lyricist
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Henry Mayers
Bookwriter
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Jacques Offenbach
Composer
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Fred Saidy
Bookwriter
The Martin Beck Estate
Theatre Owner / Operator
William and Jean Eckart
Scenic Designer
Lighting Designer
Gerald Alters
Dance Music Arranger
Lawrence Weiner and Associates
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Robert Russell Bennett
Orchestrator
Robert Russell Bennett orchestrated more than 300 Broadway musical scores including Show Boat; No, No, Nanette; Of Thee I Sing; Face the Music; Oklahoma!; Carmen Jones; Finian's Rainbow; Kiss Me, Kate; South Pacific; The King and I; My Fair Lady; and Camelot. His arrangements for the 1955 film version of Oklahoma! earned him an Academy Award. He also orchestrated and arranged Richard Rodgers' TV documentary score for "Victory at Sea." A classically trained composer, Bennett's prolific output of original compositions includes symphonies, sonatas, a ballet, a concerto and an opera. ... read more
Henri Caubisens
Production Stage Manager
Renato Cibelli
Assistant Stage Manager
Robert DeComier
Musical Director
Vocal Music Arranger
Robert DeCormier
Vocal Music Arranger
Musical Director
Bill Doll
Press Representative
Jean Eckart
Settings/Lighting
William Eckart
Settings/Lighting
Robert Fletcher
Costume Designer
Lee Guber
Producer
Guber went into the nightclub business, and joined his childhood friend Shelly Gross and Frank Ford in creating a musical theater in Devon, Pennsylvania in 1955 called the Valley Forge Music Fair. The original tent was replaced by a permanent structure, which was subsequently razed and replaced by a supermarket.
The group was advised to open a second theater in Westbury, New York, a suburb of New York City, but Guber asked "Where's Long Island?" when told the proposed location. The original Westbury Music Fair was housed in a tent that was constructed on what had been the site of a ... read more
Sol Gusikoff
Music Contractor
Hershy Kay
Orchestrator
Marvin A. Krauss
General Manager
Dania Krupska
Choreographer
Herman Magidson
Stage Manager
Ronald De Mann
Hair Designer
Arthur Partington
Assistant to the Choreographer
Bill Penn
Assistant to Mr. Ritchard
Cyril Ritchard
Director
Albert H. Rosen
Business Manager
Ted Saidenberg
Assistant Conductor
Frank Spencer
Assistant to the Costume Designer
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