Norman Gimbel

Also credited on3 works

Take A Chance
The Conquering Hero
Whoop-Up

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In the literature6 passages

• By 1958, producers Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin had had an unbroken string of hit musicals: Where’s Charley? Guys and Dolls, Can-Can, The Boy Friend, and Silk Stockings. They had their first flop with Whoop-Up, which they also cowrote and which Feuer directed. It was to have had a score by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, but Charlap and lyric…Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum
• Larry Gelbart wrote the books for only three Broadway musicals, all of which played on West Fifty-second Street. The second, which he wrote with Burt Shevelove, was for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum at the Alvin; the third was for Coleman’s City of Angels, across the street at the Virginia—Gelbart won Tony Awards for both…Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum
• Another minority group came under scrutiny in the show that broke Feuer and Martin's string of smash hits-five till WhoopUp (1958). Based on Dan Cushman's novel Stay Away, Joe (the source as well of an Elvis Presley film, by the novel's title, ten years later), Whoop-Up is set on an Indian reservation in Montana. With a script by Feuer, M…B0035RP5R8 EBOK - Ethan Mordden
• Charlap, more excitable and intense, had composed the music for three Broadway shows, among them Peter Pan. A small man, almost bald, he walked with a bounding gait and spoke in a quick and husky voice, generally accompanied by violent chopping motions in both hands. ICharlap had indeed composed Peter Pan for Jerome Robbins and Mary Marti…B001T4YWBO EBOK - Steven Suskin
• Feuer and Martin’s offer to Fosse—to choreograph and star in Stay Away, Joe, a new musical based on Dan Cushman’s novel— promised Fosse his biggest showcase yet. A gloss on Pal Joey ’s Joey Evans, the part of girl-chasing, matron-swindling Joe Champlain was heaven-sent, an overdue escape from the house of Abbott and the next big break Fos…Fosse - Sam Wasson
• Whitehead got it. The story gave Fosse satirical opportunities from nearly every angle, and its attention to phoniness, to the idea of putting on a show, metaphorically speaking, was a handy entrée to song and dance. Music and lyrics went to Morris “Moose” Charlap and Norman Gimbel; book to comedy writer Larry Gelbart, who wrote Fosse’s e…Fosse - Sam Wasson

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