Richard Besoyan (July 2, 1924 – March 13, 1970) was a singer, actor, playwright, composer and director especially of operetta and musicals. He is best...
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old-fashioned operettas and musicals. The book, music, and lyrics are by Rick Besoyan. The original Off-Broadway production premiered November 18, 1959 at...
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Baseball player who pitched for the Pirates and Dodgers; born in Reedley Rick Besoyan, singer, actor, playwright, composer, and director of musicals such as...
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by Rick Besoyan. It opened on December 28, 1964, at the Orpheum Theatre and closed on February 7, 1965. In addition to writing the show, Besoyan also...
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Bye, Bye, Birdie, by Adams & Strouse (1962); Little Mary Sunshine, by Rick Besoyan (1965) and Time Remembered, by Jean Anouilh (1967). After graduating...
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Roger Edens The Race to Urga (1969) 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (1976) Rick Besoyan (1924–1970) Little Mary Sunshine (1959) The Student Gypsy (1963) Babes...
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M. Cohan Cohan Cohan Little Mary Sunshine 1959 Off-Broadway Rick Besoyan Besoyan Besoyan Little Me 1962 Broadway Cy Coleman Carolyn Leigh Neil Simon The...
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The song is lampooned by another song, "Look for a Sky of Blue," in Rick Besoyan's satirical 1959 musical Little Mary Sunshine. The piece was first produced...
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soprano voice propelled her from unknown to star in the title role of Rick Besoyan's off-Broadway tongue-in-cheek musical/operetta Little Mary Sunshine (1959)...
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on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds by Paul Zindel Little Mary Sunshine by Rick Besoyan The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams The Merchant of Venice by William...
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Maxwell, saw Peter Gallagher on the barn stage. Author and composer Rick Besoyan wrote "Little Mary Sunshine" while at PBT. Entertainer Mickey Rooney...
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lead role of Little Mary Sunshine and in the original production of Rick Besoyan's In Your Hat in 1957 after spending a summer performing at Camp Tamiment...
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William Shakespeare Little Mary Sunshine music, lyrics, and book by Rick Besoyan Five Finger Exercise by Peter Shaffer The Gazebo by Alec Coppel Cat on...
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by Margaret Grogan (staged reading) Oct 1982: Little Mary Sunshine by Rick Besoyan, directed by Judy Sackheim (staged reading; Curtain Raiser) Nov 1982:...
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on an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show called "The Gunslinger". In Rick Besoyan's satirical 1959 musical Little Mary Sunshine, the song is parodied in...
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It with You, by George Kaufman and Moss Hart Little Mary Sunshine by Rick Besoyan The Caretaker by Harold Pinter The Taming of the Shrew Those that I Fight...
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non-Berlin counterpoint songs) are parodied in Rick Besoyan's 1959 musical Little Mary Sunshine. Besoyan has three harmonizing songs sung simultaneously:...
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