Jerome Weidman
Born New York City 4 April, 1913 Died San Francisco - 6 October,1998. He made his debut as a novelist at 22 with I Can Get It For You Wholesale . He went on to publish more than 30 novels and volumes of short stories, among them The Enemy Camp , The Sound of Bow Bells and The Forth Street East . Many were published in the magazines: Story, American Mercury and The New Yorker.
He made his debut in the theater with Fiorello! (1959--co-authored with George Abbott, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick), which won the NY Drama Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize and tied with The Sound of Music for a Tony for Best Musical on the 1959-60 season.
He teamed with Abbott, Bock and Harnick again on the musical tale, Tenderloin (1960). In 1951, his first novel became a film and in 1962, it was made into a musical starring Elliott Gould and Barbra Streisand.
Awards and nominations:
1960 Tony Award® - Best Musical - Fiorello! [winner]
1960 Pulitzer Prize for Drama - Fiorello! [winner]
Stage Works
- Fiorello! -
with George Abbott; music & lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and
- Tenderloin -
with George Abbott; music & lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and
Jerry Bock. An adaptation of the work by Samual Hopkin Adams
- I
Can Get It For You Wholesale. adaptation of
his novel of the same name: Music by Harold Rome (produced
- Cool Off! Music by Howard Blackman (produced 1964)
- Pousse-Café: Music by Duke Ellington, lyrics by Marshall
Barer and Frank Tobias; (produced 1966)
- Ivory Tower - with James Yaffe (produced 1968)
- The Mother Lover - produced 1969
- Asterisk! A Comedy of Terrors - produced 1969