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Abe Burrows (born Abram Solman Borowitz; December 18, 1910 – May 17, 1985) was an American humorist, author, and director for radio and the stage. He won a Tony Award and was selected for two Pulitzer Prizes, [citation needed] only one of which was awarded.
Abe Burrows. Writer: Just Go with It. Songwriter, composer, writer, panelist, director, singer and pianist, educated at City College of New York and New York University. He began his writing career as a script writer for "Duffy's Taven" on radio, and later, the Rudy Vallee program.
Abe Burrows is known as an Actor, Theatre Play, Creator, Writer, Executive Producer, Director, Book, Screenplay, and Stage Director. Some of his work includes Just Go with It, Guys and Dolls, Cactus Flower, Silk Stockings, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Solid Gold Cadillac, Can-Can, and The Big Party.
Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" (1933) and "Blood Pressure", which are two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, such as "Pick the Winner".
May 19, 1985 · Abe Burrows, a bespectacled accountant whose witty love for words led him to a career as a pioneering radio writer and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Broadway musicals, has died at his home...
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a 1961 musical by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, based on Shepherd Mead's 1952 book of the same name.
Radio humorist, songwriter, singer and pianist, television personality, panelist, playwright, and stage director Abe Burrows ( b. New York, NY, 18 December 1910; d. New York, NY, 17 May 1985) is perhaps best remembered as one of the creators, with Frank Loesser, of two of the greatest Broadway shows in history, Guys and Dolls (1950) and How To ...
May 19, 1985 · NEW YORK -- Abe Burrows, the writer-director who won a Pulitzer Prize for the musical 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,' has died following a lengthy illness. He was 74.
May 19, 1985 · Abe Burrows, the librettist, director, author and comic who wrote a score of shows for Broadway, including ''Guys and Dolls'' and ''How to Succeed in Business Without Really...
Abe Burrows. Writer: Just Go with It. Songwriter, composer, writer, panelist, director, singer and pianist, educated at City College of New York and New York University. He began his writing career as a script writer for "Duffy's Taven" on radio, and later, the Rudy Vallee program.
