Barry and Fran Weissler

Barry & Fran Weissler are Tony Award-winning American theatrical producers.

Career

Barry Weissler (born 1939) and Fran Weissler (born 1928)[1] met in 1964 during an engagement of a touring theatrical production in New Jersey. The two then started a touring theatrical group, The National Theatre Company, which presented classic plays to High School, College and adult audiences with professional casts[2] After years of touring Shakespearean plays on the east coast they brought Othello and Medea to Broadway in 1982. The two plays earned them their first two Tony Award nominations As of 2014 the pair have earned 28 Tony or Drama Desk nominations. They have won 7 Tony Awards and 4 Drama Desk Awards.[3] The couple also received the Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production for their production of Chicago in the London West End.[4]

Honours

In 2010 Barry & Fran Weissler were given a lifetime achievement award by the New York Musical Theatre Festival.[5] The PlayhouseSquare Awarded Barry & Fran Weissler their "Star Award for achievement in the Performing Arts" in 2014.[6]

Awards and nominations

The Weisslers have won many Tony Awards, Drama Desk Awards, and Olivier Awards.

  • 2014 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical - Violet - nominee
  • 2014 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical or Revue - Violet - nominee
  • 2013 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical - Pippin - winner
  • 2013 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical - Pippin - winner
  • 2011 Tony Award for Best Musical - The Scottsboro Boys - nominee
  • 2010 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical - La Cage aux Folles - winner
  • 2010 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical - La Cage aux Folles - winner
  • 2010 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical - Promises, Promises - nominee
  • 2005 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical - Sweet Charity - nominee
  • 2005 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical - Sweet Charity - nominee
  • 2004 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical - Wonderful Town - nominee
  • 2004 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical - Wonderful Town - nominee
  • 1999 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical - Annie Get Your Gun - winner
  • 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical - Annie Get Your Gun - nominee
  • 1997 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical - Chicago - winner
  • 1997 Olivier Award for Best Revival of a Musical - Chicago - winner
  • 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical - Chicago - winner
  • 1994 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical - Grease - nominee
  • 1994 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical Revival - My Fair Lady - nominee
  • 1992 Tony Award for Best Musical - Falsettos - nominee
  • 1992 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival - Falsettos - nominee
  • 1991 Tony Award for Best Revival - Fiddler on the Roof - winner
  • 1990 Tony Award for Best Revival - Gypsy - winner
  • 1990 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival - Gypsy - winner
  • 1990 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - nominee
  • 1988 Tony Award for Best Revival - Cabaret - nominee
  • 1988 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival - Cabaret - nominee
  • 1982 Tony Award for Reproduction (Play or Musical) - Othello - winner
  • 1982 Tony Award for Reproduction (Play or Musical) - Medea - nominee

Notable Productions
gollark: I mean. Maybe it could work in small groups. But small tribe-type setups scale poorly.
gollark: 1. Is that seriously how you read what I was saying? I was saying: fix our minds' weird ingroup/outgroup division.2. That is very vague and does not sound like it could actually work.
gollark: I'm pretty sure we *have* done the ingroup/outgroup thing for... forever. And... probably the solutions are something like transhumanist mind editing, or some bizarre exotic social thing I can't figure out yet.
gollark: I mean that humans are bad in that we randomly divide ourselves into groups then fiercely define ourselves by them, exhibit a crazy amount of exciting different types of flawed reasoning for no good reason, get caught up in complex social signalling games, come up with conclusions then rationalize our way to a vaguely sensible-looking justification, sometimes seemingly refuse to be capable of abstract thought when it's politically convenient, that sort of thing.
gollark: No, I think there are significant improvements possible. But different ones.

References
  1. "Producers put a theater in their own backyard" The New York Times Geraldine Fabrikant, August 11, 2010
  2. "National Theatre Presents Volpone" The Torch College of Saint Benedict, March 25, 1971
  3. Barry & Fran Weissler at the Internet Broadway Database
  4. Olivier Award Winners 1998 Archived December 2, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  5. Playbill.com "NYMF Awards Gala to Honor Weisslers and Chita Rivera" by Adam Hetrick, November 8, 2010
  6. Playhousesquare.org retrieved January 26, 2015
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