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have the same ethical approach that a plastic surgeon has. It wouldn't be very nice if a plastic surgeon were walking down the street with you, and a beautiful girl approached. And you say, "What a beautiful girl." And the plastic surgeon says, "She was a patient of mine. You should have seen her before I fixed her nose." Doctoring seldom cures a show. The sickness usually starts at the moment the author puts the first sheet of paper in his typewriter. All the redirecting and recasting can never help much if the basic story is wrong.
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I have... performed surgery on a few shows, but not as many as I'm given credit for. I've been involved in 19 theatrical productions, plus their road company offshoots. Only a few of these have been surgical patients. And I don't usually talk about them. I feel that a fellow who doctors a show should
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was popular with listeners and critics but not with its sponsor, Lambert Pharmaceutical, then the makers of Listerine mouthwash, but promoting a Listerine toothpaste on the show. Lambert, according to Burrows, complained that the show wasn't selling much of the toothpaste. "It seems that my fans were
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Meanwhile, he became a popular guest on the Hollywood party circuit, performing his own satirical songs ("Darling Why Shouldn't You Look Well Fed, ‘Cause You Ate Up a Hunka My Heart?" and "The Girl with the Three Blue Eyes"). Such informal performances led to a nightclub act and regular appearances
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asked him, "When the hell are you gonna become a professional?" Burrows continued as Davis' head writer while doing his own show. Mixing comic patter ("I guess I could tell you exactly what I look like, but I think that's a lousy thing to say about a guy") with his clever comic songs,
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Burrows also became a famous script doctor, enough so that the desperate remark of a producer, "Get me Abe Burrows!", remained for many years Broadway shorthand for a script that needed repair. Yet Burrows himself downplayed that role in his memoir, and discussed his fixing of
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Opening night on Broadway : a critical quotebook of the golden era of the musical theatre, Oklahoma! (1943) to Fiddler on the roof (1964)
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Abe Burrows speaking at an ASCAP seminar on the musical theater as broadcast by WNYC on October 21, 1962.
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being naughty," he wrote. "While they were laughing at my jokes, they were sneering at my toothpaste."
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when the television series visited The Bronx. He was the co-creator of the ABC television series
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The New York Public Library holds the Abe Burrows papers, which include complete runs of both
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in 1947, Burrows performed "I'll Bet You're Sorry Now, Tokyo Rose, Sorry for What You Done."
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As he recalled years later, his show came about while he was scripting a radio show for
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from 1947 to 1949, a 15-minute weekly comedy that Burrows wrote and directed as well.
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Burrows credited his success in the theatre to his work under the theatre legend
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in 1945 to work at Paramount Pictures but soon returned to radio. As a guest on
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as a performer on CBS radio programs, and to his eventually hosting his own
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Over three decades, Burrows appeared as a panelist on programs such as
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Burrows wrote and directed the first Broadway musical version of a
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The Girl with the Three Blue Eyes and other typical type songs
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Honest, Abe: Is There Really No Business Like Show Business?
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Honest Abe: Is There Really No Business Like Show Business?
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His radio career gained strength when he collaborated with
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in drama. However, because of Burrows' troubles with the
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on NBC. On October 27, 1952, he guest-starred on CBS's
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Deaths from Alzheimer's disease in New York (state)
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