David Merrick (November 27, 1911 - April 25, 2000) was an American theatrical producer and director, associated with both musicals and dramas, brilliant successes and embarrassing fl ops. Although he was nicknamed "The Indomitable Showman", an unauthorized biography by Howard Kissel was less flatteringly titled David Merrick: The Abominable Showman (ISBN 1557833613). Jump to: navigation, search November 27 is the 331st day (332nd on leap years) of the year. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1911 was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the year 2000. ... A theatrical producer is a type of producer who oversees the staging of theatre productions. ... A theatre director is a principal in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a play by unifying various endeavors and aspects of production. ... The art of singing and dancing in a prepared fictional play has been a time-honored tradition ranging to the early days of civilization. ... Jump to: navigation, search Drama is a term generally used to refer to a literary form involving parts written for actors to perform. ...

Born David Lee Margulois (or Margulies) in St. Louis, M issouri, he graduated from Washington University then studied law at the Jesuit University of St. Louis Law School. In 1940 he left his legal career behind to become a theatrical producer. Washington University in St. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Merrick was known for his love of publicity stu nts; one of his most famous promoted the 1961 musical Subways Are For Sleeping. Merrick found seven New Yorkers who had the same names as the city's seven leading theater critics: Howard Taubman, Walter Kerr, John Chapman, John McCla in, Richard Watts, Norman Nadel, and Robert Coleman. Merrick invited the seven namesakes to the musical and secured their permission to use their names and pictures in an advertisement alongside quotes such as "One of the few great musical comedies of the last thirty years" and "A fabulous musical. I love it." Merrick then prepared a newspaper ad featuring the namesakes' rave reviews under the heading "7 Out of 7 Are Ecstatically Unanimous About Subways Are for Sleeping". Only one newspaper (the New York Herald Tribune) published the ad, and only in one edition; however, the publicity that the ad garnered helped the musical remain open for 205 performances (almost six months). Merrick later said that he had conceived the ad several years before, but had not been able to execute it until after Brooks Atkinson retired as the New York Times theater critic in 1960; he could not find anyone else named Brooks Atkinson. (see [[1]]) Jump to: navigation, search 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Subways Are For Sleeping is a Broadway musical produced by David Merrick with book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. ... A critic (derived from the ancient Greek word krites meaning a judge) is a person who offers a value judgement or an interpretation. ... Walter Kerr (July 8, 1913 – October 9, 1996) was an American writer and Broadway theater critic. ... If a person, place, or thing is named after a different person, place, or thing, the latter is said to be the namesake of the former. ... The New York Herald Tribune was a newspaper created in 1922 when the New York Tribune acquired the New York Herald. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Brooks Atkinson (November 28, 1894-January 14, 1984) was the theater critic for The New York Times from 1925 to 1960. ...

Merric k married six times, as follows: He married Lenore Beck. He married Jeanne Gibson in 1963. He married Etan Aronson in 1969. He married Karen Prunczik in 1982. He remarried Etan Aronson in 1983. He married Natalie Lloyd in 1999. Merrick w as married to Lloyd at the time of his death; all of his previous marriages had ended in divorce. It is not clear if he had sired any children by any of his marriages. Jump to: navigation, search 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

On August 25, 1980, just before the curtain rose on the opening-night perfo rmance of Merrick's Broadway musical 42nd Street, Merrick asked the critics to remain in the theater until the final curtain call, when he would make an announcement. Following the triumphant curtain call, from which director/choreographer Gower Champion was mysteriously absent, Merrick stepped onto the stage and stunned both his cast and the audience by announcing that Champion had died earlier that same day. It was later established that Champion had in fact died a few days earlier; Merrick, aware of the tremendous symbolism involved, had casually adjusted the date of Champion's demise for maximum publicity value. The actual cause of Champion's death was Waldenström's globulinemia, a blood disease so rare that it is often mistakenly diagnosed as cancer. August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... 42nd Street is a hugely successful Broadway stage musical, loosely based on the movie of the same name. ... Gower Champion was an American theatre director, choreographer, and dancer. ...

Merrick suffered a stroke in 1983, which confined him to a wheelchair. He established the David Merrick Arts Foundation in 1998 to support the development of American musicals. He died in London, England on April 25, 2000, at the age of 88 from natural causes, apparently estranged from his most recent wif e, Nata lie Lloyd Merrick. Jump to: navigation, search 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... London — containing the City of London — is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England and a major world city. With over seven million inhabitants (Londoners) in Greater London area, it is amongst the most densely populated areas in Western Europe. ... April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the year 2000. ...

Productions

• The Willow and I - 1942
• Bright Boy - 1944
• Clutterbuck - 1949
• Fanny - 1954
• The Matchmaker - 1955
• Look Back in Anger - 1957
• Romanoff and Juliet - 1957
• J amaica - 1957
• The Entertainer - 1958
• The World of Suzie Wong - 1958
• Epitaph for George Dillon - 1958
• Maria Golovin - 1958
• La Plume de Ma Tante - 1958
• Destry Rides Again - 1959
• Gypsy - 1959
• Take Me Along - 1959
• The Good Soup - 1960
• Vintage '60 - 1960
• Irma La Douce - 1960
• A Taste of Honey - 1960
• Becket - 1960 (Tony Award)
• Do Re Mi - 1960
• Carnival - 1961
• Sunday in New York - 1961
• Ross - 1961
• Subways Are for Sleeping - 1961
• I Can Get It for You Wholesale - 1962
• Stop the World - I Want to Get Off - 1962
• Tchin-Tchin - 1962
• Oliver! - 1963
• Rattle of a Simple Man - 1963
• The Rehearsal - 1963
• Luther - 1963 (Tony Award)
• 110 in the Shade - 1963
• Arturo Ui - 1963
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - 1963
• The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore - 1964
• Hello, Dolly! - 1964 (Tony Award) - musical version of The Matchmaker
• Foxy - 1964
• Oh! What a Lovely War - 1964
• A Severed Head - 1964
• I was Dancing - 1964
• The Roar of the Greasepaint - The Smell of the Crowd - 1965
• Oliver! - 1965 (revival)
• Pickwick = 1965
• Inadmissible Evidence - 1965
• Cactus Flower - 1965
• Marat/Sade (The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade) - 1965
• Philadelphia, Here I Come! - 1966
• The Loves of Cass McGuire - 1966
• We Have Alw ays Lived in the Castle - 1966
• Don't Drink the Water - 1966
• I Do! I Do! - 1966
• Breakfast at Tiffany's - 1966
• The Astrakhan Coat - 1967
• Keep It In the Family - 1967
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - 1967 (Tony Award)
• How Now, Dow Jones - 1967

Jump to: navigation, search The Fortunes of Nigel (1822) is a novel written by Sir Walter Scott. ... Fanny can have many meanings: People: Fanny was a 1970s all women rock band led by June Millington. ... The Matchmaker is a play by Thornton Wilder based on an 1842 play by the Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy titled Einen Jux will er sich machen. ... Categories: Literature stubs | Plays | British drama | 1958 films | British films ... The Entertainer was a 1960 film which told the story of a failing stage performer who tried to keep his career going even as his personal life fell apart. ... The World of Suzie Wong is a 1957 novel written by Richard Mason, which has since been adapted into both a play and a film. ... Jump to: navigation, search Poster for the 2005 production of Epitaph for George Dillon Epitaph for George Dillon is an early John Osborne play, one of two he wrote in collaboration with Anthony Creighton (the other is Personal Enemy). ... Maria Golovin is an opera in three acts by Gian Carlo Menotti to an original English libretto by the composer. ... James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich Destry Rides Again is a 1939 western film directed by George Marshall, starring James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Mischa Auer, Charles Winninger, Brian Donlevy, Allen Jenkins, Irene Hervey and Una Merkel. ... Gypsy: A Musical Fable is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. ... Irma la Douce is a 1956 French stage musical whose book and lyrics were written by Alexandre Breffort with music by Marguerite Monnot. ... A Taste of Honey is play by British dramatist Shelagh Delaney, first produced in 1958. ... Becket or the Honor of God is a Tony Award-winning play written in French by Jean Anouilh. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater. ... Do-Re-Mi is a song which features in The Sound of Music. ... Swabian-Alemannic carnival clowns in Wolfach, Germany A carnival parade is a public celebration, combining some elements of a circus and public street party, generally during the Carnival Season. ... ross is by far the coolest name you can have. ... I Can Get It For You Wholesale (Broadway Musical) I Can Get It For You Wholesale qas notable as th Broadway debut of Barbara Streisand. ... Stop the World - I want to get off Stop the World - I want to get off was a musical which opened at the Queens Theatre, London on 20th July 1961, and ran for 555 performances. ... Tchin-Tchin is a 1962 play on Broadway starring Margaret Leighton and Anthony Quinn. ... Oliver! is a British musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. ... The Rehearsal was a satirical play aimed specifically at John Dryden and generally at the sententious and overly ambitious theater of the Restoration tragedy. ... For other people named Martin Luther see: Martin Luther (disambiguation), or here for Martin Luther King, Jr. ... What is popularly called the Tony Award (formally, the Antoinette Perry Award) is an annual award celebrating achievements in live American theater, including musical theater. ... 110 in the Shade is a musical with lyrics by Tom Jones, music by Harvey Schmidt and book by N. Richard Nash, based on Nashs play The Rainmaker. ... One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest is a 1975 film directed by Miloš Forman. ... Was adapted into the 1968 film, Boom, with the help of Gore Vidal - starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Noel Coward. ... Hello, Dolly! is a Broadway musical with a book by Michael Stewart and a score by Jerry Herman. ... See also Foxy (disambiguation) Foxy is an animated cartoon character featured in the Merrie Melodies series of films distributed by Warner Bros. ... Oh! What A Lovely War began life in 1963 as a stage musical by Joan Littlewood and her London Theatre Workshop based on a book by the historian Alan Clark. ... Severed Head cover A Severed Head (1961) is a satirical, in places almost farcical novel by Iris Murdoch about marriage, adultery and incest amongst a group of civilized and educated people who, the author implies, really should know better. ... Oliver! is a British musical, with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. ... Pickwick may refer to: the novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, or its main character, Mr Pickwick, Pickwick, a theatre musical based on the Dickens novel, Pickwick, a fictional dodo in Jasper Ffordes novels about Thursday Next, likely named after the Dickens character, or Pickwickian syndrome, a medical... Cactus Flower is a 1969 film with Goldie Hawn. ... The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, published in 1963, is a play by Peter Weiss, directed both on stage and screen by Peter Brook. ... Breakfast at Tiffanys is a novella by Truman Capote, published in 1958. ... Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is a humorous, absurdist, tragic and existentialist play by Tom Stoppard, first staged in 1966. ...

External links

David Merrick at the Internet Broadway Database o The Internet Broadway Database (IBDB) is an online database of Broadway theatre productions and their personnel. ...