Gypsy

ARTHUR LAURENTS (Book): An award-winning playwright, screenwriter, librettist, director and producer, Arthur Laurents has been responsible for creating the librettos of many Broadway shows including Gypsy, Anyone Can Whistle, Do I Hear A Waltz?, Hallelujah, Baby! and Nick & Nora. He wrote the screenplays for The Snake Pit, Anna Lucasta, Anastasia, Bonjour Tristesse, The Way We Were and The Turning Point. He also wrote the plays Home Of The Brave, The Time Of The Cuckoo and A Clearing of The Woods. He directed I Can Get It For You Wholesale, Anyone Can Whistle, Gypsy, La Cage Aux Folles, Birds Of Paradise and Nick & Nora.

JULE STYNE (Music) made B'way sing for 50 years as composer of High Button Shoes, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Two on the Aisle, Hazel Flagg, Gypsy, Peter Pan Bells Are Ringing, Say Darling, Do Re Mi, Subways Are for Sleeping, Funny Girl, Fade Out-Fade In, Arturo Ui, Hallelujah, Baby!, Red Shoes, Darling of the Day, Lorelei, and Sugar. His many film scores include Anchors Aweigh and My Sister Eileen as well as the title song of Three Coins in the Fountain. His songbook includes the standards “All I Need Is the Girl,” "“I Don't Want to Walk Without You,” “Just in Time,” “People,” “I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry,” “Everything's Coming Up Roses,” “I Fall in Love Too Easily,” “Small World” and “Time After Time.” He is a member of the Songwriter's and Theatre Halls of Fame; a 1990 Kennedy Center Honoree; and the winner of two Grammys, an Oscar for “Three Coins in the Fountain,” an Emmy, the Donaldson Award, and the Drama Critics Award as a producer. The following lyric writers have collaborated with Mr. Styne: Frank Loesser, Sammy Cahn, Leo Robbin, Bob Hilliard, E. Y. Harburg, Stephen Sondheim, Susan Birkenhead, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and Bob Merrill. Mr. Styne served on the Dramatists Guild Council and has been a member of ASCAP for more than 50 years.

STEPHEN SONDHEIM (LYRICS), one of the most influential and accomplished composer/lyricists in Broadway history, was born in New York City and raised in New York and Pennsylvania. As a teenager he met Oscar Hammerstein II, who became Sondheim's mentor. Sondheim graduated from Williams College, where he received the Hutchinson Prize for Music Composition. After graduation he studied music theory and composition with Milton Babbitt. He wrote the lyrics for West Side Story, Gypsy and Do I Hear A Waltz?, as well as additional lyrics for Candide. Musicals for which he has written both music and lyrics include A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Anyone Can Whistle, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, The Frogs, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday In The Park With George, Into The Woods, Assassins and Passion. He composed the songs for the television production Evening Primrose, co-authored the film The Last of Sheila and provided incidental music for The Girls of Summer, Invitation to a March and Twigs. Side By Side By Sondheim, Marry Me A Little, You're Gonna Love Tomorrow and Putting It Together are anthologies of his work. He has written scores for the films Stavisky and Reds, and composed songs for the film Dick Tracy. He is on the Council of the Dramatist Guild, the national association of playwrights, composers and lyricists, having served as its president from 1973 until 1981, and in 1983 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1990 he was appointed the first Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University. He was also the recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993.

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