What is the full name of the director of original Broadway production of Pippin?
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Pippin (musical) Pippin is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Roger O. Hirson. Bob Fosse, who directed the original Broadway production, also contributed to the libretto. While many interpretations of "Pippin" have risen since its debut, there is no single correct explanation of the musical's meaning. The musical uses the premise of a mysterious performance troupe, led by a Leading Player, to tell the story of Pippin, a young prince on his search for meaning and significance.
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Bob Fosse Robert Louis Fosse (June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987) was an American dancer, musical theatre choreographer, director, screenwriter, film director and actor.
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Daniel Slater Daniel Slater (born 20 April 1966) is a British theatre and opera director.
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Lee Roy Reams Lee Roy Reams (born August 23, 1942) is an American musical theatre actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, and director.
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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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Children's Theatre Company The Children's Theatre Company (formerly known as The Moppet Players from 1961 to 1965) is a regional theatre established in 1965 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, specializing in plays for families, young audiences and the very young. The theatre is the largest theatre for multigenerational audiences in the United States and is the recipient of 2003 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. The founding is credited to John Clark Donahue and Beth Linnerson. Many productions are adaptations from children's literature including Pippi Longstocking, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, "Cinderella", How The Grinch Stole Christmas, A Year with Frog and Toad and "Alice in Wonderland" that have been in the company's repertoire for many seasons. Among their early premiere productions was Richard Dworsky's musical version of "The Marvelous Land of Oz", which was one of several productions to be issued on video in the early 1980s. The casts themselves are a mix of adult and young adult performers.
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Susan Stroman Susan P. Stroman (born October 17, 1954) is an American theatre director, choreographer and performer. She is a five-time Tony Award winner, four for Best Choreography and one as Best Director of a Musical for "The Producers".
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Otto Preminger Otto Ludwig Preminger ( , ] ; 5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an American theatre and film director, originally from Austria-Hungary.
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Terrence Mann Terrence Vaughan Mann (born July 1, 1951) is an American actor, director, singer, songwriter and dancer who has been prominent on the Broadway stage for the past three decades. He is a distinguished professor in musical theater at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina.
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Adolf Philipp Adolf Philipp, also seen as Adolph Philipp (January 29, 1864 – July 30, 1936), was a successful Broadway composer, writer, lyricist, director, and performer, who also wrote under the pseudonyms Jean Briquet and Paul Hervé.
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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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Pip Broughton Philippa Jane Broughton is an English film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter.
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Joe Layton Joe Layton (May 3, 1931 – May 5, 1994) was an American director and choreographer known primarily for his work on Broadway.
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Timothy Mason (playwright) Timothy Peter Mason (born February 14, 1950) is an American playwright. He has written a number of plays including the book and lyrics for the Broadway musical, "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!’’
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Don Scardino Don Scardino (born February 17, 1949) is an American television director and producer and a former actor.
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Pam MacKinnon Pam MacKinnon (born January 8, 1968) is an American theatre director. She has directed for the stage Off-Broadway, on Broadway and in regional theatre. She won the Obie Award for Directing and received a Tony Award nomination, Best Director, for her work on "Clybourne Park". In 2013 she received the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for a revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
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David Armstrong (director) David Armstrong (Director) is the Executive Producer and Artistic Director of The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle. Since his appointment in 2000, he has guided The 5th Avenue to a position as one of the nation's leading musical theater companies, acclaimed for both its development and production of new works and its innovative stagings of classic musicals. As a director, he staged 5th Avenue productions of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well & Living in Paris; A Room With a View; Oliver!, Candide, , HAIR, A Little Night Music, Company, Hello, Dolly!, Anything Goes, MAME, Pippin, The Secret Garden, Vanities, White Christmas, The Rocky Horror Show, Yankee Doodle Dandy and Saving Aimee.
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Diane Paulus Diane Marie Paulus (born 1966 in New York City, USA) is an American director of theater and opera who became Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater (ART) at Harvard University in 2009. Paulus was nominated for the Best Director Tony Award for her revival of "Hair", and won the award in 2013 for her revival of "Pippin". She has received the 2009 Harvard College Women’s Leadership Award and the Columbia University IAL Diamond Award.
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Christopher Morahan Christopher Thomas Morahan CBE (9 July 1929 – 7 April 2017) was an English stage and television director and production executive.
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Stanley Lupino Stanley Lupino (15 June 1893 – 10 June 1942) was an English actor, dancer, singer, librettist, director and short story writer, who began life as Stanley Richard Lupino Hook. During the 1930s, Lupino appeared in a successful series of musical comedy films, often based on his already popular stage shows.
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Ronny Graham Ronny Graham (August 26, 1919 – July 4, 1999) was an American actor and theater director, composer, lyricist, and writer.
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John Tillinger John Tillinger (born June 28, 1938) is a theatre director and actor.