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Abbott, please check out this video. One of the most important and admired men in the entire history of Broadway — indeed, some have said that he WAS the history of Broadway —, George Abbott b. Forestville, NY, 25 June ; d. Miami Beach, FL, 31 January was a theater director and producer, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned more than nine decades. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Visit Seller's Storefront.

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Shipping costs are based on books weighing 2. If your book order is heavy or oversized, we may contact you to let you know extra shipping is required. List this Seller's Books. He lived to be one hundred-seven years old. He remained active until he died, January thirty-first, nineteen ninety-five. He wrote plays.

He directed them. He produced plays. And he acted in them. He was involved in more than one hundred twenty productions.

Some of his most popular shows were musicals. George Abbott helped write the musical play. And he directed it. It won eight of the Tony awards given each year for the best theater productions on Broadway. In nineteen ninety-four, another performance of "Damn Yankees" opened on Broadway. George Abbott helped with the production. He was one hundred six years old. He sells his soul to the devil so the senators will win the championship. A major person in the play is a beautiful woman who works for the devil.

Her name is Lola. One of the best known songs from that show is "Whatever Lola Wants. His family moved to the western state of Wyoming when he was eleven years old. George worked as a cowboy during summers before the family moved back to New York State, near the city of Buffalo.

He attended the University of Rochester, where he played football and took part in the acting club.

He then studied play writing at Harvard University. In nineteen twelve, he won one hundred dollars for a play he wrote called "The Man in the Manhole. George Abbott moved to New York City in nineteen thirteen. But he had a slow start in the theater. He did not get many acting jobs. Two years later, he became an assistant to a theater producer. Soon he was deeply involved with re-writing plays and producing them. He had his first hit show in nineteen twenty-six.