Ken Waissman

Waissman's first Broadway credit was the 1971 Paul Zindel play And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little with Estelle Parsons and Julie Harris. The following year, while he and partner Maxine Fox were in Chicago, they attended Grease, a popular local play about high school life in the 1950s being performed at the Kingston Mines Theater in the Old Town section of the city.[1][2] The two thought it would work better as a musical and encouraged its writers, Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, to relocate to New York City and embellish it with a score. The result was Grease, which Waissman and Fox mounted off-Broadway before transferring it uptown. It garnered him his first Tony nomination. He was nominated again for Over Here!; the third time proved to be the charm when he won not only a Tony but a Drama Desk Award as well for Torch Song Trilogy.

Ken Waissman is an American theatre producer.

Other Broadway credits

References
  1. Cox, Gordon (2016-05-10). "Producer Kenneth Waissman Greasing Broadway Wheels for 'Josephine' Musical". Variety. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
  2. "A new musical from the 'Grease' guy Theater: Baltimore-born Kenneth Waissman took a show to Broadway 25 years ago, and tonight he ushers 'Street Corner Symphony' into the limelight". tribunedigital-baltimoresun. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
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