LARRY FULLER, choreographer

Larry Fuller staged the London production of Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand, and repeated that assignment for the American National Touring Company.

He created the original musical staging for the Broadway production of Blood Red Roses and That's Entertainment, directed and choreographed the pre-Broadway try out of Hello Sucker, starring Martha Raye, and created the original staging for Cole Porter's The Pirate at New Haven's Longwharf Theatre. Touring productions which Mr. Fuller has directed and choreographed are Music Man starring John Raitt, I Do I Do with Jane Powell, The Wizard of Oz with Tom Poston, Kismet with Anna Maria Alberghetti and John Raitt, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever with Shirley Jones and Coco with Ginger Rogers.

He has also created cabaret acts for Carol Channing and Liza Kirk. Television audiences have seen his choreography on The Ed Sullivan Show and the Emmy Award winning Our American Musical Heritage.

In Europe, Mr. Fuller has directed and choreographed productions of West Side Story at the Volksoper, Vienna, and the Nuremberg Opera House, Also at the Volksoper he choreographed their new production of Two Hearts in Three Quarter Time. He created a very successful ballet evening Jazz and the Dancing Americans for the Opera House Ballet in Graz, Austria and the Theatre an der Wein, European premiere of Bernstein's Candide at the Vienna Stadthalle and was associate choreographer on the soon to be released Harold Prince film A Little Night Music, starring Elizabeth Taylor. He directed and choreographed the European premieres of George Gershwin's Girl Crazy and Leonard Bernstein's On the Town. Most recently, Mr. Fuller has collaborated as choreographer with director Harold Prince on two new productions, the first in New York On the 20th Century, and now, in London, the world premiere of Evita.

All biographies from original programs. Photos are reproduced from Evita programs and publicity photos in several private collections and are for research and reference only. Copyrights remain with original copyright holders.

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