Broadway theatre producers

American actor and filmmaker (1915–1985)

American director and actor (1909–2003)

Melvin James Brooks is an American actor, filmmaker, comedian, songwriter, and playwright. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 28 entertainers to win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. He received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and an Honorary Academy Award in 2024.

British theatre composer (born 1948)

American actor, playwright and screenwriter (1892-1962)

American actor, director, producer and writer (born 1963)

American librettist, lyricist, theatrical producer, and director of musicals (1895–1960)

American stage and film director and writer (1908-1988)

American entertainer, composer and playwright (1878–1942)

American theatre producer and director (1928–2019)

American composer (1898-1946)

American songwriter and lyricist

American composer, songwriter, and jazz pianist (1929-2004)

LaChanze Sapp-Gooding, known professionally as LaChanze (; born December 16, 1961), is an American actress, theater producer, singer, and dancer. She won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 2006 for her role as Celie Harris Johnson in The Color Purple. LaChanze has subsequently received four more Tony Awards for co-producing Kimberly Akimbo, Topdog/Underdog, The Outsiders, and Purpose.

American lyricist (1908-1964)

American actor

American playwright (born 1954)

American impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist (1899–1966)

American lyricist, writer, composer and producer of several Broadway shows (1921-2012)

American playwright and inventor (1842–1894)

American actor (1895-1961)

dancer and choreographer (1922-2005)

American producer, choreographer and talent agent (1907–1985)

American director (1939-)

American theatre producer (1911-2000)

American theatre producer and director (1862-1938)

American actor and producer

American actor and producer

American musician (1911-2006)

American theatre director