Robert Fryer

b. 18 November 1920, Washington, DC, USA, d. 28 Might 2000, LA, California, USA. Fryer worked well for a few years as casting movie director for the brand new York stage before embracing production. His 1st Broadway display was a musical edition of the Tree Expands In Brooklyn (1951), and he adopted this with the successful Wonderful City (1953). Through the 50s and 60s, in cooperation along with his business partner, Lawrence Carr, he was in charge of many shows, mainly musical comedies, a higher proportion which had been very effective. Among these displays had been By THE STUNNING Ocean (1954), Shangri-la (1956), Redhead (1959, champion of the Tony Award), Saratoga (1959), SPOT (1963, which starred Judy Holliday), and in 1966 Lovely Charity and Jerry Herman’s Mame, both which had been hugely effective, the latter making a Tony honor for Bea Arthur inside a co-starring part. Although he had not been finished with Broadway, Fryer created several films, like the Boston Strangler (1968) as well as the Primary Of Miss Jean Brodie (1969). He also created the screen edition of Mame (1974), starring Lucille Ball. This creation completed a group because one of is own earlier nonmusical stage productions have been Auntie Mame that the musicals had been produced. The film edition of Mame was fulfilled with essential disapproval and viewers indifference but on Fryer’s go back to Broadway in the past due 70s, he demonstrated that he previously not dropped his contact. These years discovered him mixed up in creation of Chicago (1975), OVER THE Twentieth Hundred years (1978) and Sweeney Todd (1979). He started the 80s inauspiciously with badly received productions of Merrily We Move Along (1981) and A Doll’s Lifestyle (1982), but, as artistic movie director on the Ahmanson Theater in LA, he co-produced Sounds Off (1983) and Benefactors (1985).