He also was the lyricist and first director of the show, which played on Broadway for 2,327 performances in its original run.
Martin Charnin, the Tony-winning lyricist, writer and librettist best known for creating and directing the sensational Broadway musicalCharnin died after suffering a heart attack on Wednesday, his daughter, Sasha,on Facebook. "As loving as he was, [he] has kept all of us completely directionless. Which way do we go Daddy? Damn," she wrote. "Like he said and as corny as this sounds … the sun'll will come out tomorrow.
"I guess when you're in the business of making musicals, you look for ideas, you look for source material anywhere," hein 2016. "At that particular moment, all of Dickens had been taken, it all had been musicalized. If I'd found it in a bubblegum wrapper, I guess I'd have tried to get the rights to it. I read that book before I gave it away and ultimately ended up not giving it away, I was so taken by Harold Gray's original drawings.
"No matter how you bend it, it just doesn't break — it's just one of those iconic musicals in the history of theater, and we are very grateful and lucky and thrilled about how it has survived," CharninAnnietribute Born Martin Jay Charnin on Nov. 24, 1934, he grew up in New York, the son of an opera singer. He received his BFA from Cooper Union, and after he graduated, he spotted an open call for actors, singers and dancers forAlthough Charnin had no performance training, he went to the audition as landed a part of Big Deal, one of the original Jets, in the original Broadway production in 1957. He went on to perform the role 1,000 times in New York and across the country.
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