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Who's Who in Musicals
by John Kenrick
(Copyright 1997-2007)
Listed below are the names of over 400 people. Some are familiar,
some forgotten, but all of them helped to shape the history of the musical stage and screen.
Most do not have biographies in print or elsewhere on the web -- this
section of Musicals101 was created to fill that gap.
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- Aarons, Alex
- Abbott, George
- Adams, Lee
- Adler, Richard
- Ahrens, Lynn
- Aimee, Marie
- Albee, E.F.
- Albert, Eddie
- Aldredge, Theoni V.
- Allyson, June
- Alton, Robert
- Andrews, Julie
- Arlen, Harold
- Arthur, Bea
- Ashman, Howard
- Astaire, Fred
- Auberjonois, Rene
B
- Bagley, Ben
- Bailey, Pearl
- Balanchine, George
- Ballard, Kaye
- Barrett, Brent
- Bart, Lionel
- Battle, Hinton
- Bayes, Nora
- Beach, Gary
- Belmore, Bertha
- Bennett, Michael
- Bennett, Robert Russell
- Berkeley, Busby
- Berlin, Irving
- Bernstein, Leonard
- Black, Don
- Blake, Eubie
- Blane, Ralph
- Blasel, Karl
- Blitzstein, Marc
- Blossom, Henry
- Blyden, Larry
- Bock, Jerry
- Bolger, Ray
- Bolton, Guy
- Bond, Jessie
- Booth, Shirley
- Bordoni, Irene
- Boublil, Alain
- Braham, David
- Braham, Leonora
- Bramble, Mark
- Brandram, Rosina
- Brecht, Bertolt
- Brian, Donald
- Brice, Fanny
- Bricusse, Leslie
- Broderick, Matthew
- Brown, Georgia
- Brown, Lew
- Brown, Nacio Herb
- Brynner, Yul
- Buchanan, Jack
- Buckley, Betty
- Buck, Gene
- Burnand, H.C.
- Burnett, Carol
- Burns, David
- Burrows, Abe
C
- Caesar, Irving
- Cagney, James
- Cahill, Marie
- Cahn, Sammy
- Cameron, Violet
- Cantor, Eddie
- Cariou, Len
- Carle, Richard
- Caron, Leslie
- Carroll, Earl
- Caryll, Ivan
- Cassidy, Jack
- Castle, Vernon & Irene
- Catlett, Walter
- Cellier, Alfred
- Cellier, Francois
- Ceveris, Michael
- Champion, Gower
- Channing, Carol
- Charisse, Cyd
- Charlot, Andre
- Charnin, Martin
- Chevalier, Maurice
- Clark, Bobby
- Clayton, Jan
- Cliff, Laddie
- Cochran, Charles
- Coe, Peter
- Cohan, George M.
- Cole, Jack
- Coleman, Cy
- Coleman, Cy
- Collins, Jose
- Comden, Betty
- Connell, Jane
- Connolly, Bobby
- Cook, Barbara
- Cook, William Marion
- Courtneidge, Cicely
- Coward, Noel
- Coyne, Joseph
- Crawford, Michael
- Crosby, Bing
- Crouse, Russell
- Cullum, John
D
- D'Auban, John
- Da Silva, Howard
- Dailey, Dan
- Dare, Phyllis
- Dare, Zena
- Davis, Sammy, Jr.
- Dawn, Hazel
- Day, Doris
- Day, Edith
- DeGresac, Fred (Frederique)
- DeKoven, Reginald
- De Mille, Agnes
- Deslys, Gaby
- DeSylva, B.G. "Buddy"
- Dickson, Dorothy
- Diener, Joan
- Dietz, Howard
- Dillingham, Charles B.
- Dixey, Henry E.
- D'Oyly Carte, Richard
- Donahue, Jack
- Donen, Stanley
- Donnelly, Dorothy
- Drake, Alfred
- Dressler, Marie
- Dubin, Al
- Duke, Vernon
- Duncan, Sandy
- Dunne, Irene
- Durante, Jimmy
- Durbin, Deanna
E
- Ebb, Fred
- Edens, Roger
- Eddy, Nelson
- Edelman, Greg
- Edwardes, George
- Eggerth, Marta
- Ellis, Mary
- Ellis, Vivian
- Eltinge, Julian
- Emmet, Joseph Klein
- Erlanger, A.L.
- Errol, Leon
- Etting, Ruth
F
- Fabray, Nanette
- Fain, Sammy
- Fall, Leo
- Faye, Alice
- Felix, Seymour
- Field, Ron
- Fielding, Harold
- Fields, Dorothy
- Fields, Herbert
- Fields, Lew
- Finn, William
- Flaherty, Stephen
- Ford, Helen
- Forrest, George
- Fosse, Bob
- Fox, Della
- Fox, George L.
- Foy, Eddie, Jr.
- Foy, Eddie, Sr.
- Freed, Arthur
- Freedley, Vinton
- Friganza, Trixie
- Friml, Rudolph
- Frohman, Charles
- Fryer, Robert
G
- Gallagher, Helen
- Garland, Judy
- Gay, John
- Gay, Noel
- Gaynor, Mitzi
- Gaxton, William
- Gemignani, Paul
- Gennaro, Peter
- German, Edward
- Gershwin, George
- Gershwin, Ira
- Gilbert, William S.
- Gilford, Jack
- Girardi, Alexander
- Goulet, Robert
- Grable, Betty
- Gray, Dolores
- Grayson, Kathryn
- Green, Adolph
- Green, Martyn
- Green, Stanley
- Greenwood, Charlotte
- Grey, Joel
- Grimes, Tammy
- Grossmith, George
- Gunther, Mizzi
H
- Hale, Binnie
- Hale, Sonnie
- Halevy, Ludovic
- Haley, Jack
- Hall, Juanita
- Hall, Owen
- Halliday, Robert
- Hamlisch, Marvin
- Hammerstein, Oscar, II
- Haney, Carol
- Harbach, Otto
- Harburg, E.Y. "Yip"
- Harnick, Sheldon
- Harrigan, Edward
- Harris, Barbara
- Harris, Sam
- Hart, Lorenz (Larry)
- Hart, Moss
- Hart, Tony
- Hassall, Christopher
- Haver, June
- Hayward, Leland
- Hazell, Hy
- Hearn, George
- Held, Anna
- Henderson, Ray
- Heneker, David
- Herbert, Evelyn
- Herbert, Victor
- Herman, Jerry
- Hervé
- Hicks, Seymour
- Hines, Gregory
- Hirsch, Louis
- Holliday, Judy
- Holm, Celeste
- Holm, Hanya
- Hood, Basil
- Hope, Bob
- Hopper, DeWolf
- Horne, Lena
- Hoschna, Karl
- Howes, Sally Ann
- Hoyt, Charles
- Hulbert, Jack
- Huston, Walter
- Hutton, Betty
- Hylton, Jack
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- Kalmar, Bert
- Kander, John
- Karnilova, Maria
- Kaufman, George S.
- Kaye, Danny
- Kaye, Judy
- Kaye, Stubby
- Keel, Howard
- Keeler, Ruby
- Keene, Laura
- Keith, B.F.
- Kelly, Gene
- Kern, Jerome
- Kert, Larry
- Kidd, Michael
- Kiepura, Jan
- Kiley, Richard
- King, Charles
- King, Dennis
- Kirk, Lisa
- Klaw, Marc
L
- Lahr, Bert
- Lane, Burton
- Lane, Lupino
- Lane, Nathan
- Lang, Harold
- Lansbury, Angela
- Lanza, Mario
- Lapine, James
- Larson, Jonathan
- Latouche, John
- Laurents, Arthur
- Lawrence, Carol
- Lawrence, Gertrude
- Laye, Evelyn
- Leander, Zarah
- Lee, Gypsy Rose
- Lehár, Franz
- Leigh, Carolyn
- Leigh, Mitch
- Lenya, Lotte
- Leon, Victor
- Lerner, Alan Jay
- Levy, Ethel
- Lillie, Beatrice
- Lindsay, Howard
- Lloyd, Marie
- Lloyd Webber, Andrew
- Loesser, Frank
- Loewe, Frederick
- Logan, Josh
- Loudon, Dorothy
- Luker, Rebecca
- LuPone, Patti
- Lynne, Gillian
M
- MacDermot, Galt
- MacDonald, Jeannette
- MacGregor, Edgar
- Macintosh, Cameron
- MacRae, Gordon
- Maltby, Richard
- Mamoulian, Rouben
- Mann, Terrence V.
- Marre, Albert
- Marsh, Howard
- Marshall, Rob
- Martin, Hugh
- Martin, Mary
- Martin, Millicent
- Martin, Tony
- Mathews, Carmen
- Matthews, Jessie
- McArdle, Andrea
- McCarthy, Joseph
- McCracken, Joan
- McDonald, Audra
- McLellan, C.M.
- McGuire, William
- McHugh, Jimmy
- McKechnie, Donna
- McKenzie, Julia
- McMartin, John
- Meehan, Thomas
- Meilhac, Henri
- Menken, Alan
- Mercer, Johnny
- Merman, Ethel
- Merrick, David
- Merrill, Bob
- Michell, Keith
- Middleton, Ray
- Mielziner, Jo
- Millar, Gertie
- Miller, Ann
- Miller, Marilyn
- Millocker, Carl
- Mills, Florence
- Minnelli, Liza
- Minnelli, Vincente
- Miranda, Carmen
- Mitchell, Brian Stokes
- Mitchell, Julian
- Monckton, Lionel
- Monroe, Marilyn
- Montgomery, David
- Moody, Ron
- Moore, Grace
- Moore, Victor
- Morgan, Helen
- Morison, Patricia
- Morrow, Doretta
- Morse, Robert
- Mostel, Zero
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- Paige, Elaine
- Pan, Hermes
- Papp, Joseph
- Pasternak, Joe
- Pastor, Tony
- Patinkin, Mandy
- Payne, Edmund
- Peters, Bernadette
- Picon, Molly
- Porter, Cole
- Powell, Dick
- Powell, Eleanor
- Powell, Jane
- Preston, Robert
- Prince, Faith
- Prince, Hal
- Printemps, Yvonne
- Prinz, LeRoy
R
- Raitt, John
- Rasch, Albertina
- Reams, Lee Roy
- Reinking, Ann
- Revill, Clive
- Reynolds, Debbie
- Rice, Edward
- Rice, Tim
- Rice, Thomas Dartmouth
- Rigby, Harry
- Ring, Blanche
- Ritchard, Cyril
- Rivera, Chita
- Robbins, Jerome
- Robinson, Bill "Bojangles"
- Rodgers, Richard
- Rogers, Anne
- Rogers, Ginger
- Romberg, Sigmund
- Rome, Harold
- Rooney, Mickey
- Rose, George
- Ross, Adrian
- Ross, Jerry
- Rounseville, Robert
- Routledge, Patricia
- Royce, Edward
- Ruby, Harry
- Rupert, Michael
- Russell, Lillian
- Ryskind, Morrie
S
- Saddler, Donald
- Saidy, Fred
- Sanderson, Julia
- Santley, Joseph
- Savoy, Bert
- Schmidt, Harvey
- Schneider, Hortense
- Schonberg, Claude-Michel
- Schwab, Laurence
- Schwartz, Arthur
- Schwartz, Stephen
- Secombe, Harry
- Segal, Vivienne
- Sherman, Richard and Robert
- Shire, David
- Short, Hassard
- Shubert, Sam, Lee and Jacob
- Silvers, Phil
- Sinatra, Frank
- Smith, Edgar
- Smith, Harry B.
- Smith, Oliver
- Smith, Robert
- Sondheim, Stephen
- Steele, Tommy
- Stein, Joseph
- Stein, Leo
- Stewart, Michael
- Stone, Fred
- Stone, Peter
- Stothart, Herbert
- Streisand, Barbra
- Stritch, Elaine
- Stroman, Susan
- Strauss, Johann, II
- Strouse, Charles
- Stuart, Leslie
- Styne, Jule
- Sullivan, Arthur
T
- Talbot, Howard
- Tamiris, Helen
- Tanguay, Eva
- Tanner, James
- Tauber, Richard
- Tempest, Marie
- Temple, Shirley
- Templeton, Fay
- Terris, Norma
- Terriss, Ellaline
- Thompson, Fred
- Thompson, Lydia
- Tierney, Harry
- Tucker, Sophie
- Treumann, Louis
- Truex, Ernest
- Tune, Tommy
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- Walker, George
- Walker, Nancy
- Walters, Charles
- Warren, Harry
- Waters, Ethel
- Watson, Susan
- Wayburn, Ned
- Wayne, David
- Weber, Joseph
- Webb, Clifton
- Weede, Robert
- Weidman, Jerome
- Weill, Kurt
- Wheatley, William
- Wheeler, Hugh
- White, George
- White, Miles
- White, Onna
- Wildhorn, Frank
- Williams, Bert
- Willson, Meredith
- Wilson, Francis
- Wiman, Dwight Deere
- Winninger, Charles
- Wodehouse, P.G.
- Wood, Peggy
- Wright, Robert
- Wynn, Ed
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