Production Staff
Harold Arlen
Composer
Composer
Morton Da Costa
Bookwriter
Bookwriter
Edna Ferber
Source Material
(based on novel)
(based on novel)
Johnny Mercer
Lyricist
Lyricist
Jerry Arlen
Musical Director
Musical Director
Cecil Beaton
Settings/Costumes
Scenic Designer
Costume Designer
Ralph Beaumont
Choreographer
Choreographer
Nat Brown
Orchestra Personnel Manager
Duane Camp
Stage Manager
Arthur Cantor
Press Representative
General Press Representative
Morton Da Costa
Director
Director
Lanier Davis
Assistant Stage Manager
Robert Fryer
Producer
Producer
Herbert Greene
Vocal Music Arranger
Vocal Music Arranger
Herbert Greene was a Broadway conductor, vocal arranger, vocal coach and producer, prominent in the Broadway musical theater in New York City until his death in 1985. In 1958, he was a recipient of the Tony Award for The Music Man as Musical Director and Conductor, and won a second Tony Award as the show's co-producer with Kermit Bloomgarten.
With a classical background in opera and composition, Greene wrote innovative vocal and choral arrangements for such hit musicals as Guys and Dolls, The Most Happy Fella, Bells Are Ringing, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, to name a few.
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Arthur Klein
Company Manager
Louis Kosman
Assistant Stage Manager
Philip J. Lang
Orchestrator
Orchestrator
Philip J. Lang was a musician, composer and music educator who taught at the graduate schools of music at the University of Michigan and the University of Colorado and was the orchestrator of more than 50 Broadway musicals including My Fair Lady and Camelot (with Robert Russell Bennett); Annie Get Your Gun; Applause; Hello, Dolly!; Carnival; and 42nd Street. Mr. Lang was an orchestrator for the Metropolitan Opera and a frequent musical arranger for television including Hallmark Productions, David Susskind, Radio City Music Hall and "The Tonight Show."
Robert Mackintosh (ii)
Costume Coordinator
Robert Merriman
Assistant to Mr. DaCosta
The Shubert Organization
Theatre Owner / Operator
The Shubert Organization is America's oldest professional theatre company and the largest theatre owner on the Broadway. Since the dawn of the 20th Century, Shubert has operated hundreds of theatres and produced hundreds of plays and musicals both in New York City and throughout the United States. Shubert currently owns and operates seventeen Broadway theatres and six off-Broadway venues.
Edward Padula
Production Stage Manager
Genevieve Pitot
Dance Music Arranger
Dance Music Arranger
Richard Randolph
Assistant to Mr. Beaton
Jean Rosenthal
Lighting Designer
Lighting Designer
Ben F. Stein
General Manager
Merritt Thompson
Assistant Stage Manager
Assistant to Mr. Beaumont
Awards and Nominations
1960 Tony Awards
Best Costume Design: Cecil Beaton won.
Best Scenic Design of a Musical: Cecil Beaton was nominated but did not win.
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