Active Years: 1895 - 1943
Position: New York City-born lyric writer for songs and musical shows.
Career Highlights: Connecticut Yankee (1927), Babes in Arms (1937), Pal Joey (1940).
Career Totals: A veritable plethora of recognizable songs.
Scouting Report: Though his career began as a journalism student at Columbia University (1914-1917), Hart formed a 24-year collaboration with Richard [...]

Active Years: Sheldon Harnick (1924 — ), Jerry Bock (1928 — )
Position: Composer (Bock) and lyricist (Harnick) team
Career Highlights: Fiorello!, Tenderloin, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof, The Apple Tree, The Rothschilds
Career Totals: 7 Broadway musicals, 1 children’s musical (The Man in the Moon)
Personal Data: Harnick was born in Chicago on April 30, [...]

Active Years: 1895 - 1960
Position: American lyricist - considered the most prolific and successful lyricist of his time.
Career Highlights: Wildflower (1923), Rose Marie (1924), Show Boat (1927), Oklahoma (1943), Carousel (1945), South Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951), The Sound of Music (1960).

Career Totals: 10 hit musicals.
Scouting Report: Began his career [...]

Active Years: 1896 - 1983
Position: Amercian librettist and lyricist, brother of George Gershwin.
Career Highlights: Lady Be Good (1924), Strike Up the Band (1927), Porgy and Bess (1935).
Career Totals: 30 original pieces and 53 works with his brother George.
Scouting Report: Ira wrote verses and humorous pieces for his school paper. He began writings lyrics [...]

Active Years: 1898 - 1937
Position: American composer and brother of Ira Gershwin. Refered to as “Mr. Music” by his contemporaries.
Career Highlights: Lady Be Good (1924), Girl Crazy (1930), Porgy and Bess (1935).
Career Totals: 48 published works between 1913 and 1937, as well as 53 works with brother, Ira.
Scouting Report: Born to immigrant [...]

Active Years: 1927 - 1987
Position: Director, choreographer, actor, dancer.
Career Highlights: The Pajama Game (1954), Damn Yankees (1955), Sweet Charity (1966), Pippin (1972).
Career Totals: 16 productions.
Scouting Report: Born in Chicago, Fosse was a professional dancer by the age of 13. He appeared in many Hollywood films. Fosse’s choreography, musical staging, and overall direction [...]

Active Years: 1939 –
Position: Choreographer, director, performer
Career Highlights: As a performer: Follies, Chicago, Promises Promises. As a choreographer and/or director: Pirates of Penzance, Tango Apasionado, Once on This Island, Ragtime, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The Rink, Edwin Drood
Career Totals: Directed or choreographed 8 Broadway musicals, danced in many musicals in the [...]

Active Years: Both born in 1915.
Position: Lyricists, bookwriters, screenwriters
Career Highlights: On the Town, Wonderful Town, Bells Are Ringing, Singin’ in the Rain, Applause, On the Twentieth Century, The Will Rogers Follies
Career Totals: About 30 musicals and screenplays
Personal Data: Betty Comden was born on May 3, 1915. Adolph Green was born on December 2, [...]

Active Years: 1878-1942
Position: Playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, producer, designer
Career Highlights: Little Johnny Jones, Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway, Little Nellie Kelly, and dozens of well-known songs like “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” “You’re a Grand Old Flag,” “Give My Regards to Broadway,” and many others.
Career Totals: 28 musicals, 20 non-musicals, and other works
Personal [...]

Active Years: 1921 –
Position: Actor, comedian, singer
Career Highlights: Hello, Dolly!, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Lorelei, Sugar Babies, Thoroughly Modern Millie (film)
Career Totals: 7 major musicals
Personal Data: Born in Seattle, Washington on January 31, 1921. Her first Broadway appearances included plays like No For An Answer and Proof Through the Night. She was the [...]