Edgar J. MacGregor

b. 3 Dec 1878, Rochester, NY, USA, d. 1 Sept 1957, NEW YORK, NY, USA. An achieved stage movie director, MacGregor done many Broadway productions, among that have been a few of the most effective displays from the 20s and 30s. Due to the time, when the American musical theater was still in changeover from the Western european style popular in the last century, he done both operettas and musical comedies. His credits are especially noteworthy for the amount of hits he taken to the stage for the very first time and that have continued to carry audiences for this day due to revivals and specific music from these implies that have become criteria. Among these displays will be the Kiss Burglar (1918), The Gingham Gal (1922), Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein II’s The Desert Melody (1926), VERY GOOD NEWS (1927), that was by De Sylva, Dark brown And Henderson, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin’s Funny Encounter (1927), Romberg and Hammerstein’s THE BRAND NEW Moon (1928), HAVE A Possibility (1932), Cole Porter’s Du Barry Was A FEMALE (1939) and two even more Porter displays, Panama Hattie (1940) and Allow’s Encounter It! (1941). By enough time of MacGregor’s displays from the past due 40s, Broadway viewers have been wholly gained to the newer design of musical humor and his Nellie Bly (1946) and Louisiana Female (1947) had been box-office failures. It had been after that that MacGregor known as it per day and retired.