Roger Berlind(1930-2020)

Stage Play: Big Deal. Musical/dance. Book by Bob Fosse. Based on the film "Big Deal on Madonna Street" by Mario Monicelli. Music orchestrated by Ralph Burns. Music arranged by Gordon Lowry Harrell. Featuring songs by Ray Henderson ("Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries", "Button Up Your Overcoat", "I'm Sitting on Top of the World"), Abel Baer ("For No Good Reason at All"), Eubie Blake ("I'm Just Wild About Harry"), Samuel W. Lewis ("For No Good Reason at All"), Joseph Young ("For No Good Reason at All"), Ted Fio Rito ("Charley My Boy"), Nacio Herb Brown ("I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin'"), Richard Whiting ("Ain't We Got Fun"), Fred Fisher ("Chicago", "Daddy, You've Been a Mother to Me"), Jerome Kern ("Pick Yourself Up"), Don Raye ("Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar"), Hughie Prince ("Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar"), Eleanor Sheehy ("Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar"), Edward Farley ("The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round"), Michael Riley ("The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round"), Al Lewis ("Now's The Time to Fall in Love"), Milton Ager ("Ain't She Sweet", "Happy Days are Here Again"), Al Jolson ("Me and My Shadow"), Spencer Williams ("Everybody Loves My Baby"), Dave Dreyer ("Me and My Shadow"), Harry Warren ("I Found a Million Dollar Baby"), Lewis E. Gensler ("Love is Just Around the Corner"), Lionello Casucci ("Just a Gigolo"), Hal Goering ("Who's Your Little Whozis"), Ben Bernie ("Who's Your Little Whozis"), Leonard Ware ("Hold Tight, Hold Tight"), Jerry Brandow ("Hold Tight, Hold Tight"), Willie Spottswood ("Hold Tight, Hold Tight"), Leonard Kent ("Hold Tight, Hold Tight"), Edward Robinson ("Hold Tight, Hold Tight") and Walter Donaldson ("Yes Sir, That's My Baby"). Featuring songs with lyrics by Buddy G. DeSylva ("Button Up Your Overcoat"), Gus Kahn ("Charley My Boy", "Ain't We Got Fun", "Yes Sir, That's My Baby"), Arthur Freed ("I've Got a Feelin' You're Foolin'"), Raymond Egan ("Ain't We Got Fun"), Lew Brown ("Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries", "Button Up Your Overcoat"), Dorothy Fields ("Pick Yourself Up"), Noble Sissle ("I'm Just Wild About Harry"), Red Hodgson ("The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round"), Al Sherman ("Now's The Time to Fall in Love"), Jack Yellen ("Ain't She Sweet", "Happy Days are Here Again"), Jack Palmer ("Everybody Loves My Baby"), Billy Rose ("Me and My Shadow", "I Found a Million Dollar Baby"), Mort Dixon ("I Found a Million Dollar Baby"), Leo Robin ("Love is Just Around the Corner"), Walter Hirsch ("Who's Your Little Whozis"), Fred Fisher ("Chicago", "Daddy, You've Been a Mother To Me"), Don Raye ("Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar"), Hughie Prince ("Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar"), Eleanor Sheehy ("Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar"), Leonard Ware ("Hold Tight, Hold Tight"), Jerry Brandow ("Hold Tight, Hold Tight"), Willie Spottswood ("Hold Tight, Hold Tight"), Leonard Kent ("Hold Tight, Hold Tight"), Edward Robinson ("Hold Tight, Hold Tight"), Joseph Young ("I'm Sitting on Top of the World") and Samuel M. Lewis ("I'm Sitting on Top of the World"). Featuring songs with lyrics (original) by Julius Brammer ("Just a Gigolo"). Featuring songs with lyrics (English) by Irving Caesar ("Just a Gigolo"). Choreographed by Bob Fosse. Associate Choreographer: Christopher Chadman. Directed by Bob Fosse. Broadway Theatre: 10 Apr 1986- 8 Jun 1986 (69 performances + 8 previews that began on 1 Apr 1986). Cast: Cleavant Derricks (as "Charley"), Loretta Devine (as "Lilly"), Alan Weeks (as "Willie"), Ciscoe Bruton II (as "Dancer"), Gary Chapman (as "Kokomo/Dancin' Dan"), Wayne Cilento (as "First Narrator"), esiree Coleman (as "Phoebe"), Lloyd Culbreath (as "Dancer"), Kim Darwin (as "Dancer"), Bruce Anthony Davis (as "Second Narrator"), Cady Huffman (as "Dancer"), Mel Johnson Jr. (as "Sunnyboy"), Alde Lewis Jr. (as "Otis"), Emanuel MacDonald (as "Little Willie (film sequence]"), Bernard J. Marsh (as "Judge and Bandleader"), Amelia Marshall (as "Dancer"), Larry Marshall (as "Slick"), Frank Mastrocola (as "Dancer"), Mennie Nelson (as "Millie [film sequence]"), Bill Newman (as "The Clerk [film sequence]"), Valarie Pettiford (as "Pearl/Band Singer/First Shadow"), Stephanie Pope (as "Dancer"), Roumel Reaux (as "Little Willie/Dancer"), George Russell (as "Dancer"), Candace Tovar (as "Announcer/Dancer"), Barbara Yeager (as "Second Shadow"). Standbys: Bryant Baldwin (as "Dancer"), Vince Cole (as "Dancer"), Diana Laurenson (as "Dancer"), James Stovall (as "Judge and Bandleader/Sunnyboy"), Byron Utley (as "Charley/Slick"). Understudies: Bryant Baldwin (as "Second Narrator"), Ciscoe Bruton II (as "Dancin' Dan"), Vince Cole (as "Sunnyboy"), Lloyd Culbreath (as "Willie"), Kim Darwin (as "First Shadow/Second Shadow"), Kenneth Hanson (as "Kokomo"), Cady Huffman (as "Pearl"), Amelia Marshall (as "Phoebe"), Frank Mastrocola (as "First Narrator"), Stephanie Pope (as "First Shadow/Lilly/Second Shadow"), Roumel Reaux (as "Dancin' Dan/Otis"). Produced by The Shubert Organization (Gerald Schoenfeld: Chairman. Bernard B. Jacobs: President), Roger Berlind and Jerome Minskoff. Produced in association with Jonathan Farkas.