Theatre 2 Unit 4

Ziegfeld Follies

Musical comedy revue, lavish stage performances featuring beautiful showgirls

Gershwin Brothers

American songwriting team, created “Porgy and Bess” and “American in Paris.”

George Gershwin

Composer and pianist

Ira Gershwin

Lyricist

Rodgers and Hammerstein

Musical theatre team, created Oklahoma and Cinderella

Richard Rodgers

Composer

Oscar Hammerstein

Lyricist/ Dramatist

Stephen Sondheim

American composer and lyricist, wrote West Side Story and Into The Woods.

Bob Fosse

American choreographer and director, choreographed Sweet Charity and Chicago.

Andrew Lloyd Weber

English composer for theatre and film, composed Phantom of The Opera and CATS

The Tony Award

Awards that recognize excellence in live theatre on broadway

Harold (Hal) Prince

American Producer and Director. Directed Cabaret, Sweeney Todd, and Phantom of The Opera. *21 Tony Awards

William Ivey Long

American costume designer for Young Frankenstein and Cinderella

Howell Binkley

American lighting director for Avenue Q and Hamilton

A Raisin In The Sun

1st broadway play by an African American female playwright

Lorraine Hansberry

Playwright of “A Raisin In The Sun.”

August Wilson

African American Playwright, wrote “Fences & Jitney”

Angels in America

Two part play, explored homosexuality and AIDS in 1980’s America

Tony Kushner

Playwright of Angels in America

Rent

Rock musical, tells the story of young artists in NYC, living under shadows of HIV/AIDS epidemic

Johnathan Larson

Composer and playwright of rent

Tennessee Williams

Wrote plays based in the American South

Tennessee William’s Plays

The Glass Menagerie, Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Neil Simon

Playwright and Screenwriter *Most combined Tony and Academy Award nominations of any writer

Neil Simon Plays

Barefoof In The Book, The Odd Couple, Sweet Charity (Book.)