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- He wrote the Broadway libretto for Guys and Dolls and received a Tony award and a New York Drama Critics award in 1951. He composed the popular songs “The Girl with the Three Blue Eyes” and “Leave Us Face It (We’re in Love).” Burrows also became a famous script doctor.
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Abe Burrows (born Abram Solman Borowitz; December 18, 1910 – May 17, 1985) was an American humorist, author, and director for radio and the stage. He won a Tony Award and was selected for two Pulitzer Prizes, [citation needed] only one of which was awarded.
New York, NY, 18 December 1910; d. New York, NY, 17 May 1985) is perhaps best remembered as one of the creators, with Frank Loesser, of two of the greatest Broadway shows in history, Guys and Dolls (1950) and How To Succeed in Business without Really Trying (1961).
May 19, 1985 · NEW YORK -- Abe Burrows, the writer-director who won a Pulitzer Prize for the musical 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,' has died following a lengthy illness. He was 74.
May 19, 1985 · In 1947, CBS radio executives gambled and made Burrows a performer. During an 11-month run, the Abe Burrows Show won audience acclaim and the Radio Critics Award as best show of the year.
Jul 19, 2019 · Ever since it's opening, Guys and Dolls has enjoyed critical acclaim and popularity with audiences, even if its book writer Abe Burrows's troubles with the House Un-American Activities Committee lost it the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (No award was even given in 1951 because of it).
Abe Burrows won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the musical "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying" collaborating with Frank Loesser.
He composed the popular songs “The Girl with the Three Blue Eyes” and “Leave Us Face It (We’re in Love).” Burrows also became a famous script doctor. For many years, “get me Abe Burrows!” remained Broadway shorthand for a script that needs repair.
