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2 unusual facts about Marc Blitzstein


Eleanor Flexner

In the penultimate chapter, “The New Realism,” brief attention is given to Susan Glaspell, Arthur Richman, Elmer Rice, Sophie Treadwell, John Howard Lawson, Paul Green, Paul & Claire Sifton, George Sklar & Albert Maltz, Paul Peters & George Sklar, John Wexley, Clifford Odets, Albert Bein, Irwin Shaw, Emanuel Eisenberg, Sidney Kingsley, Marc Blitzstein, and Ben Bengal.

Percy Pilcher

Pilcher is one of the unsuccessful aviation pioneers mentioned in the Marc Blitzstein composition The Airborne Symphony.


Federal Theatre Project

Arthur Miller, Orson Welles, John Houseman, Martin Ritt, Elia Kazan, Joseph Losey, Marc Blitzstein, Arthur Arent and Abe Feder all became established, in part, through their work in the FTP.

Monte Amundsen

Composer Marc Blitzstein was reportedly so delighted with Amundsen that he expanded her role in Juno (musical) to include three major songs: I Wish It So, For Love, and My True Heart, as well as a duet with Shirley Booth, The Bird Upon The Tree.

Tommy Rall

On Broadway he danced to considerable acclaim as "Johnny" in Marc Blitzstein and Joseph Stein's 1959 musical Juno (based on Sean O'Casey's play Juno and the Paycock).


see also

Leonard Lehrman

The Aug. 19, 2001 performance is posted on YouTube, along with several other operas of Lehrman's, including The Family Man (after Mikhail Sholokhov) and the trilogy Tales of Malamud (after Bernard Malamud): Idiots First (completion of work begun by Marc Blitzstein), Suppose A Wedding, and Karla.