Career Cy Feuer

born seymour arnold feuerman in brooklyn, new york, became professional trumpeter @ age of fifteen, working @ clubs on weekends support family while attending new utrecht high school. there first met abe burrows, in later years hire write book guys , dolls.

having no interest in mathematics, science, or sports, dropped out of school , found work trumpeter on political campaign truck. later studied @ juilliard school before joining orchestras @ roxy theater , later radio city music hall.

in 1938, toured country leon belasco , society orchestra, ending in burbank, california. following ten-week stint there, orchestra departed minneapolis, opted remain in california.

feuer found employment @ republic pictures, serving musical director, arranger, and/or composer of more 125 b-movies, many of them serials , westerns, next decade, save three-year interruption serve in military during world war ii.

during hollywood sojourn, enjoyed tumultuous one-year affair actress susan hayward, worked jule styne, frank loesser, , victor young, among others, received 5 academy award nominations film scores, , married divorcée, posy greenberg, mother of three-year-old son. couple later had son of own named jed.

in 1947, having decided had no real talent film scoring, feuer returned new york city, teamed ernest h. martin, had been head of comedy programming @ cbs radio. after aborted attempt stage production based on george gershwin s american in paris, produced s charley?, 1949 frank loesser adaption of charley s aunt. although panned 6 of 7 major new york critics, positive word-of-mouth show, particularly ray bolger s star turn in it, kept running 3 years.

over next several decades, feuer & martin mounted of notable titles in broadway musical canon, including guys , dolls , how succeed in business without trying, both of won tony award best musical. of 2007, how succeed... 1 of 7 musicals have won pulitzer prize drama. feuer , martin owned lunt-fontanne theatre 1960 1965.

feuer stage director. among broadway directing credits little me , ill-fated remember mama.

feuer s greatest career success 1972 film version of cabaret, won 8 academy awards, winning him best picture oscar nomination film s credited producer. (cabaret lost best picture godfather, feuer won golden globe best motion picture, musical or comedy.) martin, responsible 1985 screen adaptation of chorus line, proved 1 of biggest flops.

feuer s memoir, got show right here: amazing, true story of how obscure brooklyn horn player became last great broadway showman, written ken gross, published simon & schuster in 2003.