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The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue (1993) [N/A]

Release Date:
November 26, 1993

Original Title:
The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue

Alternate Titles:
The Will Rogers Follies

Genres:
Music

Production Companies:
Arca Media
Japan Satellite Broadcasting
Pierre Cossette Enterprises

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 144

Japanese television broadcast of the Tony award-winning musical.

Overview from TheMovieDB

The Will Rogers Follies is a musical with a book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Cy Coleman. It focuses on the life and career of famed humorist and performer Will Rogers, using as a backdrop the Ziegfeld Follies, which he often headlined, and describes every episode in his life in the form of a big production number. The Rogers character also performs rope tricks in between scenes. The revue contains snippets of Rogers' famous homespun style of wisdom and common sense and tries to convey the personality of this quintessentially American figure whose most famous quote was "I never met a man I didn't like."

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Production

Assistant Director:
Christine Clark Bradley

Associate Choreographer:
Jeff Calhoun

Associate Producer:
Yoshiaka Iba

Camera Operator:
Jake Ostroff
Charlie Huntley
Ron Washburn
Bob Camitta
John Burdick
Bill Goetz
Larry McConkey

Casting:
Julie Hughes
Barry Moss

Choreographer:
Tommy Tune

Costume Design:
Willa Kim

Director:
Walter C. Miller

Editor:
Brent Carpenter

Executive In Charge Of Production:
John Cossette

Executive Producer:
Tamamatsu Kuwata
Pierre Cossette

Lighting Design:
Alan Adelman
Jules Fisher

Lyricist:
Adolph Green
Betty Comden

Music Arranger:
Cy Coleman

Music Director:
Eric Stern

Musical:
Peter Stone
Adolph Green
Betty Comden
Cy Coleman

Orchestrator:
Billy Byers

Producer:
Noriyasu Ueki

Production Manager:
Amy Storti

Production Supervisor:
Don Dudley

Projection:
Wendall K. Harrington

Set Designer:
Tony Walton

Songs:
Cy Coleman

Sound:
Ed Greene

Sound Designer:
Peter Fitzgerald

Stage Director:
Tommy Tune

Technical Supervisor:
John B. Field

Wig Designer:
Howard Leonard

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