bios This led to Loesser’s next show, the hugely influential and successful Guys and Dolls (1950), also produced by Feuer and Martin, with a script was by Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling. In 1956 Loesser wrote the libretto, music and lyrics for his next show, The Most Happy Fella, adapted from Sidney Howard’s play, They Knew What They Wanted. This impressive score contains more than 30 musical numbers and makes extensive use of operatic techniques and forms, including recitative, arias, duets, trios and choral numbers. In 1960 he provided the score and was co-librettist for Greenwillow. In 1961, Loesser wrote the score for the Pulitzer Prize-winning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. His last show, Pleasures and Palaces, closed in 1965 during outof-town tryouts. JO SWERLING (Book) Born in Russia in 1897, Jo Swerling was a playwright, screenwriter and vaudeville sketch writer. Mr. Swerling’s long career began as a reporter and feature writer in New York and Chicago. ABE BURROWS (Book) After studying to be a doctor and an accountant, Abe Burrows had a career in sales before becoming a successful radio scriptwriter and writer/performer of musical parody numbers. Guys and Dolls was his first Broadway liberetto. Among the musicals for which he provided librettos are Make a Wish, Can-Can and Silk Stockings (both with scores by Cole Porter), Say, Darling, and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (which he also directed; score by Frank Loesser). His non-musical plays include Cactus Flower (wrote and directed) and Forty Carats (directed). GORDON GREENBERG (Director) most recently directed and revised Studs 26 EncoreAtlantA.com
Terkel’s Working in an acclaimed new production for Broadway In Chicago, developed with Stephen Schwartz and Lin-Manuel Miranda. He directed the offBroadway revival of Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well… (Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Award noms); Band Geeks! (also co-writer, recipient of NEA and NAMT grants for production at Goodspeed); Disney’s Believe (created with Kirsten Childs, Disney Creative Entertainment), the Lortel-nominated off-Broadway musical We the People (Theatreworks USA, Lortel Theatre); 33 Variations (Capital Rep); Working (Old Globe, Asolo); Pirates! Or Gilbert and Sullivan Plunder’d (created w/ Nell Benjamin — Huntington, Goodspeed, Paper Mill); Floyd Collins (Signature); Happy Days (first national tour, Boyett Theatricals); Theory of Three (NY Stage & Film); 1776 (Paper Mill); Citizens Band: The Panic Is On (Spiegeltent, NY); The Baker’s Wife (Paper Mill, Goodspeed); Cam Jansen (Lambs Theatre); and numerous TV commercials. Upcoming: The Book of Love: Emma Woodhouse’s Guide to Sex & Strategy (book writer, Capital Rep); Yentl (Asolo Rep.); Stars of David (Daryl Roth Productions); Ben Folds Project (The Producing Office); Jacques Brel (West End, 2011); and creating a new TV pilot for Davis Entertainment. Education: RADA, Stanford University, NYU Film School. www.gordongreenberg.com. TYLER RHODES (Assistant Director) Favorite assistant directing credits include Garry Marshall’s Happy Days (Goodspeed), Idaho! (Forestburgh Playhouse), Caroline, or Change and Urinetown (Zach Theater). He recently worked on the first national tours of Little House on the Prairie and Happy Days. Paper Mill Playhouse: 12 productions including Hairspray, Seven Brides...,