Ralph Alswang

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Ralph Alswang (born April 12, 1916 in Chicago , Illinois , † February 1979 in New York City ) was an American theater and film director , set designer and film and theater producer. He was responsible for the production design, lighting and costumes for nearly 100 theater productions on Broadway . He also built event rooms, such as the Gershwin Theater .

Life

Alswang was born in Chicago to Hyman and Florence Alswang and studied theater at the Goodman Theater , the Art Institute of Chicago and as a student of Robert Edmond Jones . He married the interior designer Beatrice (Betty) Alswang.

From 1942 to 1977 Alswang created the sets for almost 100 plays on Broadway, including more than 70 in-house productions. His first major work was the set for the play Comes the Revelation in Jolson's 59th Street Theater (later: New Century Theater). In 1946 he was responsible for the set design for a new edition of Lysistrata . In addition to the stage design, he also took on the costume design and theater lighting . He was also allowed to take on the lighting for the Broadway long-running hits A Raisin in the Sun and Beyond the Fringe , both of which had over 500 performances. Sometimes, like the 1964 edition of Fair Game for Lovers , he took over all three areas.

Together with Robert J. Flaherty and Robert Snyder , Alswang produced the documentary The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950), which won an Oscar for Best Documentary in 1951 .

In March 1964 he co-produced and directed a play called Is There Intelligent Life on Earth? . In this piece, theater scenes and film elements were combined, a process that was later called Living Screen . In the early 1970s, he was an interior designer for the Uris Theater in New York City , later known as the Gershwin Theater . Shortly thereafter, he designed the New Orleans Civic Center Theater and the Pine Knob Pavilion . He has also been the architect of several homes in Westport , Connecticut , including Paul Newman's there.

His last Broadway production was Piaf… A Remembrance (1977). Alswang died in February 1979 and had three children: Hope, Frances and Ralph Alswang.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beyond the Fringe . Internet Broadway Database. 2009. Retrieved May 25, 2009.
  2. ↑ A Raisin in the Sun . Internet Broadway Database. 2009. Retrieved May 25, 2009.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Ian Herbert: Alswang, Ralph . In: Who's Who in the Theater . No. 1 . Gale Research Company, 1981, ISSN  0083-9833 , pp. 14 .
  4. ↑ a b Ralph Alswang . Internet Broadway Database. 2009. Retrieved May 25, 2009.
  5. ↑ Bosley Crowther: THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; 'The Titan - Story of Michelangelo,' an Imaginative Cinema Presentation, Opens at Little Carnegie . In: The New York Times , January 23, 1950. 
  6. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043050/awards
  7. ^ Tom Vallance: Paul Newman: Actor, racing driver, activist and philanthropist who was a star for decades but spurned celebrity , The Independent. September 29, 2008. Retrieved May 25, 2009. 
personal data
SURNAME Alswang, Ralph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theater and film director, set designer, and film and theater producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH February 1979
Place of death New York City