Harry Rigby

Harry Rigby
HARRY RIGBY was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1925. With Jule Styne and Alexander H. Cohen, he produced Make A Wish, his first Broadway musical, in 1951. Additional Broadway credits include John Murray Anderson’s Almanac, Hallelujah Baby! (winner of the 1968 Tony Award for Best Musical and Best Producer of a Musical), Good News, Very Good Eddie and Sugar Babies (two Tony Award nominations). Rigby was the driving force behind the hit revival of No, No, Nanette, which lured Ruby Keeler and Busby Berkeley out of retirement and started the nostalgia craze on Broadway and later revived the 1919 hit Irene, for which he helped adapt a new book, with Debbie Reynolds two years later. Rigby died in 1985 in New York City.
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Irene (Revised 1973)
Multiple Authors
Full-Length Musical, ComedyIrene (Revised 1973)
Hugh Wheeler , Joseph Stein , Harry Rigby ,James Montgomery , Harry Tierney , Joseph McCarthy ,Charles Gaynor ,Otis Clements
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 4w, 4m
The longest-running Broadway show of its era, Irene is a charming romantic comedy about a young Irish girl who falls for a society gentleman during the Roaring Twenties.
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Irene (Revised 1973)
Multiple Authors
Full-Length Musical, ComedyIrene (Revised 1973)
Hugh Wheeler , Joseph Stein , Harry Rigby ,James Montgomery , Harry Tierney , Joseph McCarthy ,Charles Gaynor ,Otis Clements
Full-Length Musical, Comedy / 4w, 4m
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