Post by teleadm on Mar 19, 2020 7:02:01 GMT
American theatre director, librettist, and lyricist Gerald Freeman has left us at the age of 92, on March 17th.
On television in the 1950s and 1960s he directed episodes on television series, such as The Ford Television Theatre, Celebrity Playhouse, Blondie, The DuPont Show of the Week and ABC Stage 67.
His first credit as a Broadway director was the 1961 musical The Gay Life. Additional Broadway credits include the 1964 and 1980 revivals of West Side Story, The Incomparable Max (1971), Arthur Miller's The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972), the 1975 and 1976 productions of The Robber Bridegroom, both of which garnered him Drama Desk Award nominations as Outstanding Director of a Musical, The Grand Tour (1979) with Joel Grey, and The School for Scandal (1995) with Tony Randall. He was also the off-Broadway director of the rock musical Hair when it premiered at the Public Theater.
Gerald Freeman Obituary Broadwayworld
R.I.P. Gerald Freeman
On television in the 1950s and 1960s he directed episodes on television series, such as The Ford Television Theatre, Celebrity Playhouse, Blondie, The DuPont Show of the Week and ABC Stage 67.
His first credit as a Broadway director was the 1961 musical The Gay Life. Additional Broadway credits include the 1964 and 1980 revivals of West Side Story, The Incomparable Max (1971), Arthur Miller's The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972), the 1975 and 1976 productions of The Robber Bridegroom, both of which garnered him Drama Desk Award nominations as Outstanding Director of a Musical, The Grand Tour (1979) with Joel Grey, and The School for Scandal (1995) with Tony Randall. He was also the off-Broadway director of the rock musical Hair when it premiered at the Public Theater.
Gerald Freeman Obituary Broadwayworld
R.I.P. Gerald Freeman