Richard Barstow

Also credited on1 work

New Faces Of 1952

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In the literature3 passages

• During the tryout, choreographer Richard Barstow was replaced by Frank Wagner, and a number of sketches and songs were cut, including: “Producer’s Office” (sketch by Richard Myers and Jack Lawrence), “Time Magazine” (lyric and music by Allan Jeffreys, Maxwell Grant, and Jack Wilson), “Stay on the Subject” (lyric by Marshall Barer, music b…Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• Two on the Aisle’ s and New Faces’ choreographers were, respectively, the little known Ted Cappy and Richard Barstow. But Two’s Company’ s Jerome Robbins links us to the 1950s’ salient identification as the first decade in which a brace of star choreographers became the musical’s newest “authors.” Irving Berlin’s Call Me Madam (1950) was…Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden
• Music and Lyrics, Irving Berlin; Book, Herbert Fields, Dorothy Fields; Staged and Directed by Richard Barstow; Choreography, Bert Michaels; Musical Director, Jay Blackton; Scenery, Karl Eigsti; Lighting, Richard Nelson; Costumes, Sara Brook; Production Su-Theatre World, 1978-79, v. 35 (Willis)

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