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- 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. Then it was on to Broadway.
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Burrows had his version of heroine Elizabeth Bennet decide to join forces with her marriage-hungry mother in order to snag hero Mr. Darcy. Burrows also became a famous script doctor, enough so that the desperate remark of a producer, "Get me Abe Burrows!", remained for many years Broadway shorthand for a script that needed repair.
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No Pulitzer for Drama was awarded that year. Burrows felt he owed much of his theatrical success to George S. Kaufman, the legendary comic writer (for the Marx Brothers, among others) who wrote or directed at least one play on Broadway in every season from 1921 through 1958.
May 19, 1985 · Abe Burrows, a bespectacled accountant whose witty love for words led him to a career as a pioneering radio writer and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Broadway musicals, has died at his home...
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.
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- Abe Burrows has written 11 shows including Breakfast at Tiffany's (Bookwriter), Guys and Dolls (Bookwriter), Make a Wish (Bookwriter), Three Wishes...
- Abe Burrows has been nominated for several awards throughout his career. These include the Best Musical award from the New York Drama Critics Circl...
- Abe Burrows has won several awards for his work in Broadway shows. He received the Best Musical award from the New York Drama Critics Circle Awards...
Abe Burrows won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the musical "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying" collaborating with Frank Loesser.
With collaborator Frank Loesser, Burrows won a Pulitzer Prize and Tony and New York Drama Critics awards for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. He wrote the Broadway libretto for Guys and Dolls and received a Tony award and a New York Drama Critics award in 1951.
