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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, [1] 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. Writer: Just Go with It. Songwriter, composer, writer, panelist, director, singer and pianist, educated at City College of New York and New York University.
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, [1][2] and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, such as "Pick the Winner".
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.
In 1980, Abe Burrows published his memoir, Honest, Abe: Is There Really No Business Like Show Business?, in which he recalls the meat of his career, including his mentoring of several comedy writers including future M*A*S*H writer Larry Gelbart (who was once a Duffy's Tavern writer), Nat Hiken, Dick Martin and Woody Allen, the latter a distant ...
Abe Burrows has won several awards for his work in Broadway shows. He received the Best Musical award from the New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for "How to Succeed in Business Without...
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 ...
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.