Michael David is a Broadway producer, the co-founder of and a partner in Dodger Theatricals. His productions on Broadway include ''
Jersey Boys
''Jersey Boys'' is a jukebox musical with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, and book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice. It is presented in a documentary-style format that dramatizes the formation, success and eventual break-up of th ...
'', ''
Matilda The Musical
''Roald Dahl's Matilda'', simply known as ''Matilda'' or ''Matilda the Musical'', is a stage musical with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin and a book by Dennis Kelly, based on the 1988 novel ''Matilda'' by Roald Dahl. The musical's narrative c ...
'', ''
The Farnsworth Invention
''The Farnsworth Invention'' is a stage play by Aaron Sorkin adapted from an unproduced screenplay about Philo Farnsworth's first fully functional and completely all-electronic television system and David Sarnoff, the RCA president who stole th ...
'', ''
The Secret Garden
''The Secret Garden'' is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialisation in ''The American Magazine'' (November 1910 – August 1911). Set in England, it is one of Burnett's most popular novels and ...
'', ''
Into the Woods
''Into the Woods'' is a 1987 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine.
The musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm fairy tale
A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story ...
'', and the revival of ''
The Music Man
''The Music Man'' is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and ...
''.
Prior to his work with Dodger Theatricals, he was the executive director of the
Chelsea Theater Center
The Chelsea Theater Center was a not-for-profit theater company founded in 1965 by Robert Kalfin, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. It opened its doors in a church in the Chelsea district of Manhattan, then moved to the Brooklyn Academy of ...
of Brooklyn.
References
**''
Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater,''
Napoleon, Davi. Iowa State University Press , 1991. A chronicle of the onstage productions and offstage troubles at the Chelsea Theater Center.
**''Contradictions: Notes on twenty-six years in the theatre'' (Hardcover), Prince, Harold. Dodd, Mead , 1974 autobiography features a chapter on his production of Candide at the Chelsea Theater Center.
**Hewes, Henry. "An Egoless Theater. " in ''Saturday Review'', 29 July 1972, p. 66
**Napoleon, Davi. "Staging the Unexpected at the Chelsea Theater Center." in ''Showbill'' February 1980. Stories of adventurous productions the Chelsea moved from Off-Broadway to on.
**Napoleon, Davi. "Chelsea Goes Loco, Gears Up for Speed Trip." ''Courier Life Newspapers'' (Brooklyn, NY), 3 January 1977. Napoleon is a fly on the wall at
Des McAnuff
Desmond Steven McAnuff (born June 19, 1952) is the American-Canadian former artistic director of Canada's Stratford Festival and director of such Broadway musical theatre productions as '' Big River'', '' The Who's Tommy'' and '' Jersey Boys''.
...
's rehearsal of "The Crazy Locomotive," with Glenn Close and other luminaries, produced by Michael David.
**Napoleon, Davi. "Chelsea's Michael David." in ''The Phoenix'' (Brooklyn, NY), 23 January 1975 p 14. Profile of executive director Michael David.
**Severo, Richard. "The Chelsea: Success Story in Brooklyn, of All Places." in ''New York Times'' 28 May 1974
**Tallmer,Jerry. "A Theater Grows in Brooklyn." in ''New York Post'' 20 March 1973
External links
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Chelsea Theater Center articles in the New York Times
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American theatre managers and producers
Yale School of Drama alumni
Place of birth missing (living people)
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