Rocco landesman biography

Rocco Landesman (born July 20, ) is a long-time Broadway theatre producer.

Born in St. After founding a mutual fund, the Cardinal Fund, and assembling a barn of thoroughbred race horses, in the late s and early s, he turned to theater production with Big River , a musical based on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. She designed the sets and costumes for ' night Mother , a two-character play involving a daughter caring for a dying mother.

Big River developed out of a combination of Rocco Landesman's love for the Mark Twain novel and for the music of Roger Miller, who became the show's composer. The show won the Tony Award for best musical in The show again was a success, and in Landesman was asked to take over the Jujamcyn organization, then a fairly consistent money loser. Landesman turned it into a success as the third-largest theatrical organization on Broadway.

By shows in which Jujamcyn had been involved garnered the largest number of Tony nominations that year. Sources: Encyclopaedia Judaica.

Rocco landesman biography

Rocco Landesman (born July 20, ) is a long-time Broadway theatre producer.

Rocco Landesman is a long-time Broadway theatre producer.