Production Staff
Roger O. Hirson
Bookwriter
Stephen Schwartz
Composer
Lyricist
The Blaine Thompson Company
Advertising
Solters / Sabinson / Roskin Inc.
General Press Representative
The Shubert Organization (Executive Directors: Irving Goldman, Bernard B. J
Theatre Owner / Operator
Ernest Adler
Hair Designer
Michael Alterman
Keyboards
Jeff Ash
Advertising
Ingram Ash
Advertising
Irving Berger
Brass
John Berkman
Dance Music Arranger
Ira Bernstein
General Manager
Bernstein produced or managed over 40 Broadway shows and tours, including Pippin and Chicago, two of his favorites. His other Broadway credits include Jackie Mason's The World According to Me!, Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean, Sophisticated Ladies, On the Twentieth Century, The Act, The Norman Conquests, 1776, Golden Rainbow, The Apple Tree, Wait Until Dark, Wildcat, The Tenth Man, Silk Stockings, The Boy Friend, Can-Can, and three original Frank Loesser productions: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Where's Charley?, and Guys and Dolls.
From 1984 until 1991, Ira managed the Shubert Theater in ... read more
Eddie Bert
Brass
Maurice Bialkin
Strings
Whitney Blausen
Assistant to Ms. Zipprodt
Nancy Brennand
Harp
Ralph Burns
Orchestrator
John Campo
Woodwinds
Kathryn Doby
Dance Captain
Assistant to Mr. Fosse
Cheryl Sue Dolby
Press Representative
Jules Fisher
Lighting Designer
In a celebrated career spanning almost 40 years, Jules Fisher has lit over 200 Broadway and off-Broadway shows, as well as film, ballet, opera, television, and rock-and-roll concert tours. He has received 18 Tony nominations and won 8 Tony awards for Lighting Design, a record in this category. His most recent project, "Assassins", (2004 Tony award) also won him the Drama Desk and Outer Critic's Circle awards. His previous Tony awards were for "Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk," 1996; "Jelly's Last Jam," 1992; "The Will Rogers Follies," 1991; "Grand Hotel," 1990; "Dancin'," 1978; "Ulysses in Nighttown," 1973; ... read more
Al Fishman
Strings
Michael Fleming
Guitars
Bob Fosse
Director
Choreographer
Director/Choreographer
Bob Fosse was an American actor, choreographer, dancer, and film and stage director. He directed and choreographed musical works on stage and screen, including the stage musicals The Pajama Game (1954), Damn Yankees (1955), How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1961), Sweet Charity (1966), Pippin (1972), and Chicago (1975). He directed the films Sweet Charity (1969), Cabaret (1972), Lenny (1975), All That Jazz (1979), and Star 80 (1983).
Fosse's distinctive style of choreography included turned-in knees and "jazz hands". He is the only person ever to have won Oscar, Emmy, and Tony awards in the same year (1973). He ... read more
Phil Friedman
Production Stage Manager
Sampson Giat
Woodwinds
Additional credits include:
The Rothschildes 1970
South Pacific 1990
Evita 1979
Zorba 1983
Cabaret
Man Of La Mancha
Arthur Goldstein
Brass
Romaine Green
Assistant to Mr. Adler
Joseph Harris
General Manager
Abe Jacob
Sound Designer
Bernie Karl
Percussion
Stanley Koor
Percussion
Stanley Lebowsky
Musical Director
Ronald Lipscomb
Strings
Charles Macey
Guitars
Fred Manzella
Strings
Maurice Mark
Percussion
Al Miller
Music Preparation Supervisor
Marvin Morgenstern
Strings
Doug Norris
Brass
Stuart Ostrow
Producer
Stuart Ostrow was Frank Loesser's apprentice and became the Vice President and General Manager of Frank Music Corp., and Frank Productions, Inc., the Broadway co-producers of: The Most Happy Fella, The Music Man, Greenwillow, and How To Succeed In Business With Really Trying.
As a solo producer, his many original award-winning Broadway and West End productions include: M. Butterfly, which won the Tony Award for Best Play, Pippin, and 1776, which received both the New York and London Drama Critics Awards as well as the Tony Award for Best Musical. He also produced, The Apple Tree, produced and directed Here's Love, ... read more
Paul Phillips
Stage Manager
Paul Phillips is the Gretchen B. Kimball Director of Orchestral Studies at Stanford University. He is an award-winning conductor, composer, and pianist, and the author of "A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess."
Mathilde Pincus
Music Preparation Supervisor
Seymour Press
Woodwinds
Dennis Purcell
Assistant to Mr. Jacob
Louise Quick
Assistant to Mr. Fosse
Mel Rodnon
Music Contractor
Kenny Rupp
Brass
Tony Salvatori
Brass
Lola Shumlin
Stage Manager
Michael Shurtleff
Casting Consultant
Nancy Simmons
Assistant to the General Managers
Edward Strauss
Keyboards
Don Thomas
Guitars
Daniel Trimboli
Woodwinds
Tony Walton
Scenic Designer
Tony Walton is a director and designer, honored with 16 Tony Award nominations for his Broadway sets and/or costumes. Pippin, House of Blue Leaves and Guys and Dolls won him Tonys. Among his 20 films, Mary Poppins, The Boy Friend, The Wiz and Murder on the Orient Express earned him five Academy Award nominations. All That Jazz won him the Oscar and "Death of a Salesman" the Emmy. Previous designs for the world of Dickens include those for ten years of annual presentations of A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden. In 1991 he was elected to the Theatre Hall ... read more
Patricia Zipprodt
Costume Designer
Awards and Nominations
1973 Theatre World Awards
Performance: John Rubinstein won.
1973 Tony Awards
Best Book of a Musical: Roger O. Hirson was nominated but did not win.
Best Choreography: Bob Fosse won.
Best Costume Design: Patricia Zipprodt was nominated but did not win.
Best Direction of a Musical: Bob Fosse won.
Best Lighting Design: Jules Fisher won.
Best Musical: Stuart Ostrow was nominated but did not win.
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: Stephen Schwartz was nominated but did not win.
Best Scenic Design: Tony Walton was nominated but did not win.
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