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Sweet Smell of Success - Broadway Creative Team


Production Staff

MGM/UA Home Entertainment Group, Inc. Source Material
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Craig Carnelia Lyricist
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John Guare Bookwriter
John Guare is an American playwright and screenwriter. He is best known as the author of The House of Blue Leaves and Six Degrees of Separation. ... read more
Marvin Hamlisch Composer
Hamlisch, one of only eleven EGOT winners in the history of the entertainment industry, was awarded three Oscars, four Grammys, four Emmys, a Tony and three Golden Globe awards for his work. On Broadway, he wrote the music for A Chorus Line - which received the Pulitzer Prize - as well as They’re Playing Our Song, The Goodbye Girl and Sweet Smell of Success. He is the composer of more than forty motion picture scores including his Oscar-winning score and song for The Way We Were and his adaptation of Scott Joplin’s music for The Sting, for which he received a ... read more
Ernest Lehman Source Material
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Clifford Odets Source Material
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Marty Bell Producer
Bob Boyett Producer
William David Brohn Orchestrator
Broadway: Wicked, Mary Poppins, Ragtime (1998 Tony Award®), Miss Saigon, The Secret Garden (1991 Drama Desk Award), Crazy for You, Carousel, Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Sweet Smell of Success. London: My Fair Lady, Oliver!, South Pacific. Stratford-upon-Avon: The Secret Garden. Lincoln Center: A Man of No Importance, Dessa Rose. Ballet arrangements: for Christopher Wheeldon, Twyla Tharp, Lar Lubovich. Recordings: for Placido Domingo, Marilyn Horne, Joshua Bell's CD "West Side Story Suite." ... read more
David Brown Producer
Bob Crowley Settings/Costumes
Recent Productions: Don Carlos (MET, NY) Love Never Dies (Adelphi, London). Bob Crowley has designed over twenty productions for the National Theatre, including most recently: The Habit of Art, The Power of Yes, Phèdre, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Gethsemane, and Fram (which he also co-directed with Tony Harrison), The History Boys (Broadway - Tony Award), His Girl Friday and Mourning Becomes Electra, plus more than twenty-five productions for the RSC, including: Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The Plantagenets, for which he won an Olivier Award. For the Donmar Warehouse - Into the Woods and Orpheus Descending. Other credits include: Pavane ... read more
Joan Cullman Producer
Roy Furman Producer
Credits include Evita, The Book of Mormon, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Seminar. Recent productions: House of Blue Leaves, West Side Story, La Bete, Come Fly Away, Ragtime, Gypsy, The Color Purple, Spamalot. Co-founded the investment firm Furman Selz, currently vice chairman Jeffries & Company. Vice chairman of Lincoln Center, Chairman emeritus of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, vice president NY City Opera. ... read more
Jeffrey Huard Musical Director
Nicholas Hytner Director
Nicholas Hytner has been Director of the National Theatre since 2003, and heads a team that produces around 20 new shows each year. Since 1989 he has directed 28 productions at the National, including The Madness of George III, Henry V, His Dark Materials, The History Boys, Stuff Happens, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Much Ado About Nothing, England People Very Nice, Phedre, The Habit of Art, London Assurance, Hamlet and Collaborators. On Broadway he has directed The History Boys, Sweet Smell of Success and Miss Saigon; and at Lincoln Center Theater Carousel and Twelfth Night. He has directed ... read more
Natasha Katz Lighting Designer
Natasha Katz is a New York-based lighting designer. She is a six-time Tony Award winner who has designed extensively for theatre, opera, dance, concerts, and permanent lighting installations around the world. Her recent Broadway credits include: Diana, The Music Man, All My Sons, Burn This, The Prom, Frozen, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Cats, School of Rock, An American in Paris, Aladdin, Skylight, The Glass Menagerie, Once, Follies, The Coast of Utopia: Salvage, and Aida. ... read more
Ernest Lehman Producer
Tony Meola Sound Designer
Broadway: Lysistrata Jones (associate producer as well as sound design); …Drood (Drama Desk Award); First Date (associate producer); Pal Joey; The Ritz; Laugh Whore; Man of La Mancha; Sweet Smell of Success; Copenhagen; Kiss Me, Kate; Footloose; The Lion King (Drama Desk Award); The Sound of Music; A Christmas Carol (MSG); Steel Pier; Forum; The King and I; Moon Over Buffalo; Smokey Joe’s Cafe; Guys and Dolls; Five Guys Named Moe; She Loves Me; The Red Shoes; Anything Goes. London: Kiss Me, Kate; The Lion King; Smokey Joe’s Cafe; and Anything Goes. National and international: The Lion King, Les Miserables, ... read more
Martin Richards Producer
Bob Weinstein Producer
Harvey Weinstein Producer
Christopher Wheeldon Choreographer

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Awards and Nominations

2002 Drama Desk Awards
Outstanding Musical: Sweet Smell of Success won.

2002 Outer Critics Circle Awards
Outstanding Broadway Musical: 0 was nominated but did not win.
Outstanding Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon was nominated but did not win.

2002 Tony Awards
Best Book of a Musical: John Guare was nominated but did not win.
Best Lighting Design: Natasha Katz was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Marty Bell was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Martin Richards was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Roy Furman was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Joan Cullman was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Bob Boyett was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: East of Doheny was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Bob Weinstein was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Ernest Lehman was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: David Brown was nominated but did not win.
Best Musical: Clear Channel Entertainment was nominated but did not win.
Best Orchestrations: William David Brohn was nominated but did not win.
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: Marvin Hamlisch was nominated but did not win.
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: Craig Carnelia was nominated but did not win.

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