Larry Fuller

Larry Fuller staged the London production of Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand, and repeated that assignment for the American National Touring Company. He created the original musical staging for the Broadway production of Blood Red Roses and That's Entertainment, directed and choreographed the pre-Broadway try-out of Hello Sucker, starring Martha Raye, and created the original staging for Cole Porter's The Pirate at the new Haven Longwharf Theater. Touring productions which Mr. Fuller has directed and choreographed are Music Man, staring John Raitt, I Do I Do with Jane Powell, The Wizard of Oz with Tom Poston, Kismet with Anna Marie Alberghetti and John Riatt, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever with Shirley Jones and Coco with Ginger Rodgers. He has also created cabaret acts for Carol Channing and Lisa Kirk.

 

Television audiences have seen his choreography on the Ed Sullivan Show and the Emmy Award winning Our American Musical Heritage. In Europe Mr Fuller has directed and choreographed productions of West Side Story at the Volksoper, Vienna, and the Nuremberg Opera House. Also at the Volksoper he choreographed their new production of Two Hearts in Three-quarter Time. He created a very successful ballet evening Jazz and the Dancing Americans for the Opera House Ballet in Graz, Austria and the Theater an der Wein, Vienna. He directed the European premiere of Bernstein's Candide at the Vienna Stadthalle and was Associate Choreographer on the soon-to-be-released Harold Prince film A Little Night Music, starring Elizabeth Taylor. He directed and choreographed the European premieres of George Gershwin's Girl Crazy and Leonard Bernstein's On The Town. Most recently Mr Fuller has collaborated as Choreographer with Director Harold Prince on two new productions, the first in New York On the 20th Century, and in London the world premiere of Evita.