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	The Sondheim Review - v2n2
		Furth was a Chicagoan who had attended graduate school at Columbia and worked as an actor in New York before moving to California.
		Furth changed the central characters of the original 1934 Kaufman and Hart play from a playwright and a painter into a composer and a librettist who write musical comedies together.
		Sondheim and Furth's ability to adopt a common verbal style and use it to express ideas that are clearly very close to their hearts and experiences shows that they truly are parallel minds who met.
	www.sondheimreview.com /v2n2.htm (2953 words)

	Amazon.com: Shampoo (1975) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		George goes about his day to day activities, without a hair out of place, no matter how often, or how many women try to seduce him.
		George is sleeping with Felicia and as it turns out he used to date Lester's mistress, Jackie, played Julie Christie and also ends up sleeping with Lester's daughter Lorna played by Carrie Fisher in her first movie.
		As the typically 60s sex objects George dallies with, Julie Christie and Goldie Hawn are perfectly cast, almost too perfectly, they hardly seem to be acting at all; their haircuts and their clothes set the scene and call "cut" at the end of each take.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6303686834?v=glance (3495 words)

	Merrily We Roll Along (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This is a revival of Stephen Sondheim & George Furth's 1981 musical, based on a Kaufman & Hart play, about the lives of three friends--a writer, a composer, and a lyricist/playwright.
		Furth’s book—a caustic, jaded tale of youthful optimism corrupted by fame and fortune—was blamed for the show’s failure, and has been periodically rewritten by the author over the years, generating a number of high profile revivals.
		Despite these shortcomings Furth’s book still has enough substance—in the form of colorful supporting characters and acid one-liners—for any and all takers to grab on to.
	www.nytheatre.com /nytheatre/merr2181.htm (1008 words)

	Merrily We Roll Along (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		However ingenious it is, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Merrily We Roll Along is a very hard piece to get right.
		By the end of the play and the beginning of their lives in New York, the three are young and optimistic about their future, while the audience knows how their lives really unfold.
		Furth's book is complex, but well-crafted so as not to be overwhelming.
	www.oobr.com /top/volTen/thirty/merrily.htm (534 words)

	Tin Pan Alley Composer and lyricist Biographies
		George M. Cohan was born in Providence, RI on either the 3rd or 4th of July 1878.
		Seymour Furth (dates unknown) Furth was a writer of music and Broadway productions including the fabulous play, Bringing Up Father in 1925, the 1907 edition of The Ziefeld Follies, The Mimic World in 1908 and Nearly a Hero, also in 1908.
		George Gershwin (1898 - 1937), could rightfully be called the dean of American music for the early 20th century.
	www.parlorsongs.com /bios/composersbios.asp (15224 words)

	Merrimack premiering film festival, video competition next month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Officially, the name of the festival is the Tambakos Film Festival, named in honor of Demosthenes Peter Tambakos, a 1974 Merrimack College graduate who was an aspiring screenwriter at the time of his accidental death.
		Tambakos' friend, George Furth, a Tony-award-winning playwright/actor, has established a substantial endowment at Merrimack in his honor.
		He (George) is very well-known and has collaborated with Steven Sondheim and others.
	www.andovertownsman.com /news/20010125/AE_001.html (460 words)

	Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Originally a collection of one-act plays written by librettist George Furth, Company was eventually shaped into a musical thanks to the vision of legendary director Harold Prince.
		At Prince's suggestion, Furth reworked these one-acts into a libretto examining the pros and cons of marriage, and Stephen Sondheim was brought in to provide the music.
		To tie all the pieces together, Furth added the character of Robert, a bachelor whose 35th birthday party provides the occasion to bring all of Furth's characters together at the opening of the play.
	www.orpheus-theatre.on.ca /shows/company/main.html (346 words)

	A CurtainUp Berkshire Review, Company
		It took the vision of director Harold Prince to shape George Furth's collection of one-act plays into something that would shatter the conventions of the plot driven musical.
		George Furth extracted the book from four of eleven short plays written in 1967, all based on people he knew.
		The marriage of Furth's script and Sondheim's music and lyrics was initially as difficult as some of the marriages that make up the "plot" of Company.
	www.curtainup.com /company.html (1138 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > Shampoo > Printer Friendly
		George Roundy (Warren Beatty) barely has time to put in a few working hours at a Beverly Hills salon; he's too busy servicing the women in his life.
		George Roundy rides a motorbike but doesn't have to worry that his home pad isn't the trendiest available, as he's too busy playing musical beds to think about home.
		George's women are each living in their own kind of desperate isolation.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=5487 (1075 words)

	George Furth, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor/dir, Tammy, Good Guys, Dumplings December 14 in History
		George Furth, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor/dir, Tammy, Good Guys, Dumplings December 14 in History
		George Furth, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor/dir, Tammy, Good Guys, Dumplings
		Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
	www.brainyhistory.com /events/1932/december_14_1932_91569.html (59 words)

	Stephen Sondheim Stage
		It is the generation George Furth and Stephen Sondheim are a part of.
		Sondheim and Furth wrote Company in 1970, when Sondheim was 40 and Furth was 38.
		Furth has taken the gem and buffed it and given it a better setting.
	www.sondheim.com /discussions/columns/compre5.html (1156 words)

	Rep's 'Company' a mixed theatrical bag
		The musical, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, was adapted from a book of one-act plays by George Furth.
		In the year between his surprise 35th birthday party and his next birthday party, Robert, played as an innocent foil of sorts by Mark Rosenberg, observes his friends’ quirks and the messy business of marriage.
		"Company" was adapted from a book of one-act plays about marriage by George Furth, which on the stage seem repetitive and wearying by the second act.
	www.durangoherald.com /archives/arts501.htm (671 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Getting Away with Murder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		George Furth is known for bitingly witty dialog.
		The play tells what happens when members of a group therapy circle arrive to find their therapist murdered and evidence that one of them did it.
		Sondheim and Furth do such a wonderful job of establishing the setting and characters that I could vividly imagine what the staging of the play may have looked like.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/155936128X (715 words)

	'Company' at Irvine Valley College exudes high-energy and dead-on characterizations 11/14/02
		His decision to use librettist George Furth's revised book of the mid-1990s revival, which included such updates as use of cell phones and more modern music in the disco scene, gives this production a more contemporary flavor.
		Unfortunately, the new ending of this version unravels the neat framework Furth and composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim provided their musical in the first place.
		But that's more the fault of Furth than Ellison, though the latter could have opted for the original ending, tacking it on to the 1990s version.
	www.irvineworldnews.com /Bstories/nov14/company.html (832 words)

	The Globe and Mail: Series
		That work similarly began by showing a playwright at the peak of his career and then following him and his friends, a novelist and a painter, backward to their idealistic youth.
		Sondheim and Furth have pushed the action into their own time and changed the professions.
		Despite the narrowness of its characters, its very structure speaks tellingly to anyone over 30 of the truth that it is beginnings not endings that are happy.
	www.theglobeandmail.com /series/theatre_2002/shaw/merrily.html (1026 words)

	George Furth's "Twigs" at Phoenix Theatre-11/5/99 to 11/21/99
		George Furth's "Twigs" at Phoenix Theatre-11/5/99 to 11/21/99
		Furth and Barnard's inclination to take the obvious choice over the subtle, exemplified by the well-telegraphed pontifications strategically placed and annoyingly broadcast through staging and lighting that occurs at the climax of each of the four scenes.
		Furth's play is a rough challenge for the design team, calling for four different kitchens and nearly-impossible set changes in the middle of each act.
	www.goldfishpublishers.com /Twigs_PT.html (655 words)

	GCC Performing Arts Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Based on the play by George Kauffman and Moss Hart, this musical (with book by George Furth) tells of the disintegration of the friendship ofsuccessful songwriter Franklin Shepard, his lyricist Charlie Kringas, and novelist Mary Flynn.
		MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG first opened on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on April 16, 1981, and was produced by another theatrical legend, Harold Prince.
		George Furth, who also worked with Sondheim on the celebrated musical COMPANY, adapted the book for MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG.
	www.gc.maricopa.edu /performingarts/merryroll.htm (251 words)

	Sacramento State Events Calendar
		Musical, Company, by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, directed by Sacramento State professor Ed Brazo, 6:30 p.m., University Theatre, Shasta Hall, special performance prices $8 general/$5 students and seniors.
		Musical, Company, by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, directed by Sacramento State professor Ed Brazo, 8 p.m., University Theatre, Shasta Hall, $18 general/$12 students and Sacramento State staff/$10 seniors and high school students.
		Musical, Company, by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, directed by Sacramento State professor Ed Brazo, 2 p.m., University Theatre, Shasta Hall, $18 general/$12 students and Sacramento State staff/$10 seniors and high school students.
	uaweb.csus.edu /csusevents (2537 words)

	ARTSEDGE: Celebrating Sondheim
		Merrily We Roll Along was based on George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's 1934 play of the same title, which itself was an unwieldy and unsuccessful attempt to break new ground.
		There was also a self-absorbed composer of musical comedies and concertos named Sam Frankl, modeled after Kaufman's frequent collaborator George Gershwin.
		Thus, Prince, Sondheim, and librettist George Furth fell into the trap of fitting the material to the concept, rather than finding a concept to fit the material.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /exploring/mt/sondheim/works/merrily.html (868 words)

	Sondheim.com - Putting it together since 1994.
		Based on the play by George Kauffman and Moss Hart, this musical (with book by George Furth) tells of the disintegration of the friendship of successful songwriter Franklin Shepard, his lyricist Charlie Kringas, and novelist Mary Flynn.
		With three hand-held cameras, one major theatrical milestone and nearly nineteen hours of footage, this rare and intimate look with Original Cast Album - Company is a must for any Sondheim fan.
		One of Sondheim's most beloved works is sure to be Sunday in the Park with George, available on DVD, video tape, and CD.
	www.sondheim.com /shows/merrily_we_roll_along (408 words)

	New Millennium Theatre Company of Chicago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Written by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth, Getting Away with Murder was more about the exploration of the evils of human nature.
		Sondheim and Furth offered a look into the deadly sins of humanity and how they led the characters of the play down a path of murder and complete destruction.
		Getting Away with Murder was New Millennium Theatre's first step away from using company members and involved a more diverse, local cast for major roles.
	www.nmtchicago.org /History/GAWM/gawm.htm (404 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Widescreen) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The commentary by George Roy Hill and others in the "making of" sequence is intriguing, especially when you consider the budgets of today's movies and what they managed to do with so little back then.
		The interviews with the main players are great, and it's fun to learn how Redford met Butch's real sister and how he tried to get her to the premiere of the movie.
		Directed by George Roy Hill (who would later direct The Sting) and written by William Goldman of The Princess Bride and Stepford Wives fame.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003RQNJ (1269 words)

	George Furth Pics - George Furth News - George Furth Information
		George Furth also appeared in the Tony Curtis film,"The Boston Strangler".
		His character was questioned as a possible suspect who had a little fl book with 100's of women's name that he had been in contact with.
		Tell the world what you think of George Furth.
	www.tv.com /george-furth/person/16308/summary.html (96 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : George Furth : Biography
		His most celebrated movie role was as Woodcock, the by-the-book railroad guard robbed twice by Paul Newman and Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).
		On TV, Furth was seen regularly on Broadside, Tammy, The Good Guys and The Dumplings--situation comedies all.
		Broadway regulars will recognize the name George Furth less for his acting than for his considerable accomplishments as a playwright; in 1970, Furth wrote the book for Stephen Sondheim's Tony-winning musical Company.
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/22365/bio.jhtml (190 words)

	George Furth - playwright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		To search for published plays by George Furth click on one of the bookstore links above.
		You will be shown all Plays in print by George Furth.
		George Furth : Click on a Play title below for more information
	www.doollee.com /PlaywrightsF/FurthGeorge.htm (153 words)

	Broadway: The American Musical . Memorable Musicals . Company \| PBS
		The score would be written almost perpendicularly to the collection of George Furth plays on which it was based, with characters reflecting on scenes they weren't in, or stepping outside of the situation to comment on themselves, on love, on marriage, on commitment.
		The context of the show was mod Manhattan in the 1970s, utterly unromantic, a city of strangers.
		For some, this crisp critical contemporaneity was a tonic, while others found this world too misanthropic, but Prince and Sondheim would thrive on controversy; indeed, they would embrace it, and the show and its creators were all rewarded with Tonys.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/broadway/musicals/company.html (229 words)

	Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's marriage-minded musical Company debuted, in 1970, Liz Taylor was still married to Richard Burton -- the first time.
		A lot of things have happened in the ensuing years to alter the dynamics of relationships and commitment, among them the advent of AIDS.
		True, the piece -- which was revised for 25th-anniversary revivals in London and at New York's Roundabout Theatre -- seems now to have one foot in 1970, the other in the '90s, as Furth's libretto does a sometimes awkward frug to Sondheim's agitated off-rhythms and intricately nested lyrics.
	www.worcesterphoenix.com /archive/theater/97/05/30/COMPANY.html (728 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : George Furth : Main
		American actor George Furth attended Northwestern University, a cradle of American acting talent.
		After getting his master's degree at Columbia, Furth sought out stage work: his first part was in the 1961 play A Cook for Mr.
		Most often cast in films as a bespectacled, nerdish, ineffectual type, Furth appeared in such f...
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/22365/personmain.jhtml (94 words)

	George Furth - A master of the dramatic expressive visual art. Superstar - Star - Icon or just plain actor to some, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		George Furth - A master of the dramatic expressive visual art.
		For good or bad, moving stories in film and cinmea are becoming the some of the most visible achievements - the Silver Screen, DVD, VHS, Albums, they touch us.
		Search for more great books by or on: George Furth
	www.omega23.com /New_York_to_Malibu/George_Furth.html (440 words)

	Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Driven by Stephen Sondheim's wildly inventive score and George Furth's hilarious and biting book, COMPANY watches Robert, a 35-year-old bachelor, as he in turn watches the married lives of "those good and crazy people my friends." Will he decide to take the plunge himself?
		Sondheim and Furth, who originally set out to create a bunch of unconnected one acts, have spread the wealth liberally: Everybody gets at least one juicy song, scene or dance.
		Still, there's no escaping the fact that, with the exception of Bobby, once your character's scene is up, you rejoin the group.
	www.reprise.org /past.productions/company_info.html (753 words)

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