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The book and lyrics were written by a team that Robbins would work with again, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and the director was the Broadway legend George Abbott. Because Robbins, as choreographer, insisted that his chorus reflect the racial diversity of a New York City crowd, On the Town broke the color bar on Broadway for the first time.
In 1940, Jerome Robbins made a parody of the Nijinsky ballet, titled PM of a Faun. [2]: 47 In 1948, Robbins joined the New York City Ballet soon after it was founded, as both a dancer and choreographer. [3] For New York City Ballet's 1953 season, Robbins decided to choreograph to the Debussy score. [4]
The Book of Life is a 2014 American animated fantasy adventure comedy film [7] [8] [9] directed by Jorge R. Gutierrez in his feature directorial debut and written by Gutierrez and Doug Langdale. It was distributed by Reel FX Animation Studios. Guillermo del Toro, Brad Booker, Aaron D. Berger, and Carina Schulze produced the film. [1]
Broadway, the Golden Years: Jerome Robbins and the Great Choreographer-directors: 1940 to the Present. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8264-1462-1. Mandelbaum, Ken (1990). A Chorus Line and the Musicals of Michael Bennett. St. Martins Press. ISBN 0-312-03061-4. McKechnie, Donna (2006). Time Steps: My Musical Comedy Life. Simon ...
On the Town is a musical with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, based on Jerome Robbins' idea for his 1944 ballet Fancy Free, which he had set to Bernstein's music.
Bernstein collaborated with director and choreographer Jerome Robbins, book writer Arthur Laurents, and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. [83] The story is an updated retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in the mid-1950s in the slums of New York City's Upper West Side. The Romeo character, Tony, is affiliated with the Jets gang, who are of ...
Judy Holliday in her dressing room before the Los Angeles premiere of Bells Are Ringing with the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera (1959). The original Broadway production, directed by Jerome Robbins and choreographed by Robbins and Bob Fosse, opened on November 29, 1956, at the Shubert Theatre, where it ran for slightly more than two years before transferring to the Alvin Theatre, for a total run ...
Depiction of the book of life. In Judaism, Christianity and Islam ( Angels) the Book of Life (Biblical Hebrew: ספר החיים, transliterated Sefer HaḤayyim; Ancient Greek: βιβλίον τῆς ζωῆς, romanized: Biblíon tēs Zōēs Arabic: سفر الحياة, romanized: Sifr al-Ḥayā) is an alleged book in which God records, or will record, the names of every person who is ...