David Merrick: A Bio-Bibliography

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This study chronicles the life and career of one of the last of Broadway's independent producers, David Merrick, who produced 88 plays on Broadway during his professional lifetime. Following a chronology of his career and a biographical sketch, all his plays and film productions are carefully documented, with credits, runs, synopses, and review citations. An annotated bibliography includes his own writings and a chronologically organised listing of books and articles about him. An appendix is devoted to major awards given to Merrick, his productions, and other principals and stars involved with them; and a second appendix lists theatre productions that were make into films.

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BARBARA LEE HORN is Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech, Communication Sciences, and Theatre at St. John's University, Jamaica, NY. She is the author of The Age of Hair: Evolution and Impact of Broadway's First Rock Musical (Greenwood Press, 1991), and Joseph Papp: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood, 1992).