Tom O'Horgan
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| Occupation(s) | Theatre director, composer |
| Years active | 1960s-1990s |
Tom O'Horgan (May 3, 1924 – January 11, 2009) was an American theatre and film director and composer.
Biography
Born in Chicago, Illinois, O'Horgan received his degree from DePaul University. Most of his early career work was in off-off-Broadway experimental theatre productions, beginning with "Love and Vexations" at the Caffe Cino in September, 1963, and including To the Water Tower, When the Owl Screams, and The Wrecking Ball as composer, Tom Paine, Masked Men, and Birdbath as director, and Futz! as both. In 1974, he conceived and directed a stage adaptation of the Beatles' classic recording Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
O'Horgan made his Broadway directorial debut in 1968 with the ground-breaking musical Hair, garnering a Tony Award nomination for Best Direction of a Musical. Additional Broadway credits include Lenny, with Cliff Gorman as controversial comedian-satirist Lenny Bruce, Jesus Christ Superstar, Dude, Inner City, The Leaf People, and I Won't Dance.
O'Horgan won three Drama Desk Awards for his direction of the off-Broadway plays, Lenny, Futz!, and Tom Paine, and was named Theatrical Director of the Year by Newsweek in 1968.
O'Horgan composed the score for and directed the screen adaptation of Futz! with Frederic Forrest, Sally Kirkland, and Jennifer O'Neill, composed the score for Alex in Wonderland, and directed the film version of Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros with Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, and Karen Black.
He died on January 11, 2009 in Venice, Florida. [1]
References
- ^ Jones, Kenneth."Tom O'Horgan, Groundbreaking Director of Superstar, Hair and More, Has Died",playbill.com, January 12, 2009
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- New York Times obituary
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