The Magic Show is a one-act musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, it starred magician Doug Henning was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and which American actor, dancer, choreographer and theatre director, was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical?
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The Magic Show The Magic Show is a one-act musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Bob Randall. It starred magician Doug Henning. Produced by Edgar Lansbury, it opened on May 28, 1974 at the Cort Theatre in Manhattan, and ran for 1,920 performances, closing on December 31, 1978. Henning was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and director Grover Dale was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical.
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Grover Dale Grover Dale (born July 22, 1935) is an American actor, dancer, choreographer and theatre director.
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Joel Grey Joel Grey (born Joel David Katz; April 11, 1932) is an American actor, singer, dancer, and photographer. He is best known for portraying the Master of Ceremonies in both the stage and film versions of the Kander & Ebb musical "Cabaret". He has won an Academy Award, Tony Award, and Golden Globe Award.
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42nd Street (musical) 42nd Street is an American musical with a book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, lyrics by Al Dubin and Johnny Mercer, and music by Harry Warren. The 1980 Broadway production, produced by David Merrick, directed by an ailing Gower Champion and orchestrated by Philip J. Lang, won the Tony Award for Best Musical and became a long-running hit. The show was produced in London in 1984 (winning the Olivier Award for Best Musical) and its 2001 Broadway revival won the Tony for Best Revival.
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Rob Marshall Rob Marshall (born October 17, 1960) is an American theater director, film director, and choreographer. His most noted work is the 2002 Academy Award for Best Picture winner "Chicago", for which he won a Directors Guild of America Award, as well as Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe nominations for Best Director. A five-time Tony Award nominee, he also won a Primetime Emmy Award for his choreography in the TV movie "Annie" (1999).
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Mark Nelson (actor) Mark Nelson is an American actor, director and teacher. He appeared on Broadway in "The Invention of Love," "After the Fall" and "Three Sisters" at Roundabout Theatre Company, and the original casts of "A Few Good Men", "Rumors", "Biloxi Blues" and "Amadeus". For his performance as Einstein in Steve Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" he received the Obie, Drama League, Carbonell and San Francisco Critics Awards. He played Herr Schultz in the 2016 national tour of "Cabaret," and acted off-Broadway in "My Name is Asher Lev" for which he received a Lortel nomination. Other roles include Shylock in "The Merchant of Venice" at The Shakespeare Theater, Uncle Vanya (in Bartlett Sher's production at the Intiman Theatre), Matt in "Talley's Folly" (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Bluntschli in "Arms and the Man" (Long Wharf Theatre) and two solo pieces: "I Am My Own Wife" by Doug Wright (Carbonell Award) and "Underneath the Lintel" by Glen Berger (Connecticut Critics Award). His TV work includes roles on "Unforgettable", “Law & Order” and “Spin City.” He teaches acting at Princeton University and at New York's HB Studio. He has directed at Manhattan Theatre Club, Drama Dept., McCarter Theatre, George Street Playhouse, and Chautauqua Theatre Company, and is a frequent guest director at the Juilliard School. He graduated from Princeton and then studied acting with Uta Hagen. In 2013 he received a Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship.
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Julie Taymor Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director of theater, opera and film. She is best known for directing the stage musical "The Lion King", for which she became the first woman to win the Tony Award for directing a musical, in addition to a Tony Award for Original Costume Design.
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Matt West Matt West is a choreographer and actor. He choreographed the first Broadway production of "Beauty and the Beast". He won a Drama-Logue Award for his work on that show.
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Oscar Hammerstein II Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II ( ; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and two Academy Awards for Best Original Song. Many of his songs are standard repertoire for vocalist's and jazz musicians. He co-wrote 850 songs. Hammerstein was the lyricist and playwright in his partnerships; his collaborators wrote the music. Hammerstein collaborated with numerous composers, such as Jerome Kern, with whom he wrote "Show Boat", Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml, Richard A. Whiting and Sigmund Romberg; but he is best known for his collaborations with Richard Rodgers, as the duo Rodgers and Hammerstein which include "Oklahoma!", "Carousel", "South Pacific", "The King and I", and "The Sound of Music".
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Don Stitt Don Stitt (born January 25, 1956) is an American actor and playwright who has been featured in four Broadway musicals, appeared 20 times on the "Late Show with David Letterman", and starred in countless commercials.
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Michael McGrath (actor) Michael McGrath (born September 25, 1957) is a Tony Award-winning American stage actor. He has appeared in many Broadway stage productions, and is especially noted for his roles in the musicals "Spamalot" and "Nice Work If You Can Get It".
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One and One (musical) One & One is an American 1970s award-winning original off-Broadway musical comedy by Dianne Adams (music and lyrics), Fred Bennett (book), and Richard O'Donnell (book, music and lyrics).
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Toby Sedgwick Toby Sedgwick (born 16 August 1958) is a British movement director, actor, and theatre choreographer. He achieved critical acclaim for his expressive "horse choreography" for life-size puppets used in "War Horse" (2007), which played at West End's New London Theatre, Broadway's Vivian Beaumont Theater and Toronto's Princess Of Wales Theatre. For the latter, Sedgwick won a 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Theatre Choreographer and a 2012 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Choreography in a Play or Musical. Due to its success, the play was going on a 30-city tour in the United States and was also produced in Australia and in Germany, opening late in 2013, just before the centenary of the first world war.
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Tyler Hanes Tyler Jonathan Hanes (born October 12, 1982) is an American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer best known for his work in Broadway musicals.
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Ross Skiffington Ross Skiffington is a New Zealand-born Australian magician, actor, and theatre director, who has received two lifetime achievement awards for his contributions to magic.
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Judith Jamison Judith Ann Jamison (born May 10, 1943) is an American dancer and choreographer, best known as the Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
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Keith Dworkin Keith Dworkin is the co-adaptor of "The Frogs" by Aristophanes that was performed off-off-Broadway by Rising Sun Performance Company. He is also the recipient of the 2006 William Daniels Award for best musical direction for his production of Urinetown., but is best known for his musical direction and co-adaption of Rodgers and Hart's "The Boys From Syracuse" with David Bell.
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Jacob Brent Jacob 'Jazzy' Brent (born August 14, 1973) is an American stage actor who is most famous for his role as the Magical Mr. Mistoffelees in the video production of CATS which was filmed in 1998. He graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1991. Jacob also worked with the ALICE workshop, a musical based on Alice in Wonderland as well as his own showcase at the Sadlers Wells Theatre. In 2002, he worked with choreography during the Elan Awards and the Dance with Dancers Millennium Gala for the New York City Ballet. Jacob now donates his time and talent to San Jose Children's Musical Theatre, where he is directing their 2008 production of "Peter Pan" as well as their 2009 Spring Production of Leonard Bernstein's "Candide". He holds a Masters of Fine Arts from San Diego State University. In 2016, Brent was appointed Assistant Professor of Dance at Shenandoah University. There, he instructs students in the art of becoming "Jazz Warriors".
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Michael Cerveris Michael Cerveris (born November 6, 1960) is an American actor, singer, and guitarist. He has performed in many stage musicals and plays, including several Stephen Sondheim musicals: "Assassins", "Sweeney Todd", "Road Show", and "Passion". In 2004, Cerveris won the Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for "Assassins" as John Wilkes Booth. In 2015, he won his second Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical for "Fun Home" as Bruce Bechdel.
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Donald Holder Donald Holder is an American lighting designer in theatre, opera, and dance based in New York. He has been nominated for twelve Tony Awards, winning the 1998 Tony Award for Best Lighting Design as well as the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for "The Lion King". He won a second Tony in 2008 for the revival of "South Pacific". His lighting design for "Ragtime" has been nominated for a 2010 Tony Award for "Best Lighting Design of a Musical". Additional Broadway credits include: "Big Fish," "Annie (2012 Broadway revival)", "Golden Boy", "", "Arcadia", "The Motherf**cker With The Hat", "Promises, Promises", "Les Liaisons Dangereuses", "Radio Golf", "The Little Dog Laughed", "Movin' Out", "The Times They Are a-Changin'", "A Streetcar Named Desire", "Holiday","Cyrano de Bergerac", and "Prelude to a Kiss".He was the theatrical lighting designer for seasons one and two of the NBC-Universal Television Series: 'Smash.'
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Bob Avian Bob Avian (born December 26, 1937) is an American choreographer, theatrical producer, and stage director.
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Rachel Rockwell Rachel Rockwell is an American theater director, choreographer and performer. She graduated from the School for Creative and Performing Arts (Cincinnati) and has a BFA in Theater Performance from the University of Evansville (IN). She moved to Chicago in 1991 and began performing and choreographing. She has appeared on Broadway in Mamma Mia! and the national tours of Mamma Mia! (Equity Dance Captain); and Harold Prince's Showboat. In 2010, she was named "Best Director" by Chicago Magazine. and Chicagoan of the Year: Theater 2012 by the Chicago Tribune. In July 2014, Goodman Theatre, in association with Liza Lerner and Kevin McCollum, produced the first major revival of Brigadoon in two decades—directed and choreographed by Rockwell, who, with Brian Hill (author), updated the book, with permission from the Lerner and Loewe estates. In his New York Times review, Charles Isherwood called her production "a first-class revival that boasts an infectious buoyancy of spirit and a welcome absence of postmodern flourishes." Her productions of "Ride The Cyclone" and "Billy Eliot" were named two of the Top Ten productions in Chicago for 2015. Her U.S. premiere Chicago Shakespeare Theatre production of "Ride The Cyclone" was then produced Off-Broadway at MCC Theater, and named Best of 2016 by the New York Times. She directed the World Premiere of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" at Minneapolis Children's Theatre in April, 2016.