Harry Akst
Gender
Male
Born
Aug 15, 1894
New York, New York, USA
Died
Mar 31, 1963
Hollywood, California, USA
Director
Composer
Musical Supervisor
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CREDITSA Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical (Nov 11, 2024 - Feb 23, 2025)Musical, Original
- Featuring songs by Harry Akst, Louis Alter, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Arodin, Boyd Atkins, Paul Barbarin, Irving Berlin, James M. Black, Harry Brooks, Shelton Brooks, Hoagy Carmichael, Eddie deLange, Thomas A. Dorsey, Jimmy Van Eaton, Edwin B. Edwards, Duke Ellington, Ben Ellison, Mark Fisher, Fred Fisher, Porter Grainger, Jerry Herman, Turner Layton, Clarence Muse, Giacomo Puccini, W.H. Ragas, Leon René, Otis René, D. James LaRocca, Vincent Rose, Harry Ruby, Luis Carl Russell, Arthur Schwartz, Terry Shand, Larry Shay, Larry Shields, John Stafford Smith, Tony Spargo, Sam Theard, Robert Thiele, Percy Venable, Ángel Villoldo, Thomas "Fats" Waller, George Weiss, Hudson Whittaker and Spencer Williams
Black and Blue (Jan 26, 1989 - Jan 20, 1991)Musical, Original- Featuring songs by Ellas McDaniel, W. C. Handy, Spencer Williams, Clarence Williams, J. Turner Layton, Andy Razaf, Alex Hill, Louis Armstrong, Percy Venable, Jimmy McHugh, Doc Daugherty, Ellis Reynolds, Duke Ellington, Bubber Miley, Jimmie Lunceford, Saul Chaplin, Porter Grainger, Everett Robbins, Thomas "Fats" Waller, Harry Brooks, John Green, Harry Akst, Benny Goodman, Chick Webb, Edgar Sampson, Eubie Blake, Leslie Johnakins, Andy Kirk, Harold Arlen, Big Maybelle Smith, Sy Johnson and Leroy Kirkland
Uptown...It's Hot! (Jan 29, 1986 - Feb 16, 1986)Musical, Original- Featuring songs by Louis Armstrong, Horace Gerlach, Duke Ellington, Frank Owens, Harry Akst, Harold Arlen, E. A. Swan, Jimmy McHugh, George Gershwin, Cab Calloway, Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald, Van Alexander, John Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, Count Basie, Frankie Lymon, M. A. Brunner, Sam Cooke, Al Lewis, Vincent Rose, Larry Stock, Richard Penniman, Chuck Berry, Carole King, Gerald Goffin, Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Marvin Gaye, Ivy Joe Hunter, William Stevenson, Brian Holland, Lamont Herbert Dozier, Eddie Holland, Norman J. Whitfield, John C. Fogarty, B. T. Express, Dorothy LaBostrie, Joe Lubin and Leon Evans
Blues in the Night (Jun 02, 1982 - Jul 18, 1982)Musical, Original- Featuring songs by Bessie Smith, Willard Robison, Harry Revel, Harry Link, Jack Strachey, George W. Thomas, Charlie Davis, Ida Cox, Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman, Leola Wilson, Wesley Wilson, Ann Ronell, Andy Razaf, Alex Bellenda, Vernon Duke, Milton Drake, Ben Oakland, H. Grey, Harold Arlen, Bernard Hanighen, Gordon Jenkins, Harry Akst, Alberta Hunter and Jimmy Cox
Mr. Wonderful (Mar 22, 1956 - Feb 23, 1957)Musical, Original- Featuring songs by Sam Coslow, W. Franke Harling, Sid Kuller, Arthur Hammerstein, Dudley Wilkinson, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson, Cole Porter, Benny Davis, Harry Akst, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn
John Murray Anderson's Almanac (Dec 10, 1953 - Jun 26, 1954)Musical, Original-
Featuring songs by Harry Akst
- Additional
At Home With Ethel Waters (Sep 22, 1953 - Oct 10, 1953)Special, Original- Music for "I Ain't Gonna Sin No More" by Con Conrad and Herb Magidson; Music for "Sleepy Time Down South" by Clarence Muse, Leon René and Otis René; Music for "Throw Dirt" by Shelton Brooks; Music for "Am I Blue" and "Dinah" by Harry Akst; Music for "Half of Me" by Peter De Rose and Sam M. Lewis; Music for "Washtub Rubstudy," "Dance Hall Hostess" and "Somethin' Told Me..." by Alberta Nichols; Music for "Bread and Gravy" by Hoagy Carmichael; Music for "Love For Sale" by Cole Porter; Music for "Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night" by Ethel Waters and Sidney Easton; Music for "My Man" by Maurice Yvain; Music for "St. Louis Blues" by W. C. Handy; Music for "Suppertime" by Irving Berlin; Music for "Takin' a Chance on Love" and "Cabin in the Sky" by Vernon Duke; Music for "Happiness is Jes' a Thing Called Joe" and "Stormy Weather" by Harold Arlen; Music for "Lady Be Good" by George Gershwin
Swingin' The Dream (Nov 29, 1939 - Dec 09, 1939)Musical, Original- Music for "Jumpin' at the Woodside" by Count Basie; Music for "Pick-a-Rib," "Rachel's Dream" and "Flying Home" by Benny Goodman; Music for "Wedding March" by Felix Mendelssohn; Music for "St. Louis Blues" by W. C. Handy; Music for "Ain't Misbehavin'" by Thomas "Fats" Waller; Music for "Ain't Misbehaving'" by Harry Brooks; Music for "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" by Jimmy Hugh; Music for "Moonglow" by Will Hudson, Eddie de Lange and Irving Mills; Music for "Hold Tight-Hold Tight" by Leonard Kent, Edward Robinson, Leonard Ware, Jerry Brandow and Willie Spotswood; Music for "My Melancholy Baby" by Ernie Burnett; Music for "Christopher Columbus" by Leon Berry; Music for "Way Down Younder in New Orleans" by Larry Clinton; Music for "Ol' Man Mose" by Louis Armstrong; Music for "Jeepers Creepers" by Harry Warren; Music for "Oh, You Crazy Moon" by James Van Heusen; Music for "The Flat Foot Floogie" by Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart and Bud Green; Music for "Down by the Old Mill Stream" by Tell Taylor; Music for "Big John's Special" by Horace Henderson; Music for "Dinah" by Harry Akst; Music for "Rose Room" by Art Hickman; Music for "Flying Home' by Lionel Hampton; Music for "Sugarfoot Stomp" by Joseph Oliver
Artists and Models [1927] (Nov 15, 1927 - Mar 24, 1928)Musical, Original- Music by Harry Akst and Maurie Rubens
Music Box Revue [1922-23] (Oct 23, 1922 - Aug 04, 1923)Musical, Original- Under the Personal Direction of: Harry Akst
Music Box Revue [1921] (Sep 22, 1921 - Sep 30, 1922)Musical, Original- Musical Supervisor: Harry Akst
Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic [1920] (Feb 01, 1921 - Closing date unknown)Musical, Original- Additional music by Max Hoffmann, Irving Berlin, Harry Akst and Dave Stamper
Ladies First (Oct 24, 1918 - Mar 15, 1919)Musical, Original- Additional music by Nora Bayes, Seymour Simons, George Gershwin, Harry Clarke and Harry Akst
Blues in the Night (Mar 09, 1985 - Mar 23, 1985)Musical, Original- Featuring songs by Bessie Smith, Willard Robison, Harry Revel, Harry Link, Jack Strachey, George W. Thomas, Ida Cox, Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman, Leola Wilson, Wesley Wilson, Ann Ronell, Andy Razaf, Alex Bellenda, Vernon Duke, Milton Drake, Ben Oakland, H. Grey, Harold Arlen, Bernard Hanighen, Gordon Jenkins, Harry Akst, Jimmy Cox, Edgar Sampson, Benny Goodman, Chick Webb and Billy Strayhorn
Blues in the Night (Sep 09, 1983 - Mar 30, 1984)Musical, Original- Featuring songs by Bessie Smith, Willard Robison, Harry Revel, Harry Link, Jack Strachey, George W. Thomas, Ida Cox, Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman, Leola Wilson, Wesley Wilson, Ann Ronell, Andy Razaf, Alex Bellenda, Vernon Duke, Milton Drake, Ben Oakland, H. Grey, Harold Arlen, Bernard Hanighen, Gordon Jenkins, Harry Akst, Jimmy Cox, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb, Billy Strayhorn and Benny Goodman
A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical
(Nov 11, 2024 - Feb 23, 2025)
Musical, Original
- Featuring songs by Harry Akst, Louis Alter, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Arodin, Boyd Atkins, Paul Barbarin, Irving Berlin, James M. Black, Harry Brooks, Shelton Brooks, Hoagy Carmichael, Eddie deLange, Thomas A. Dorsey, Jimmy Van Eaton, Edwin B. Edwards, Duke Ellington, Ben Ellison, Mark Fisher, Fred Fisher, Porter Grainger, Jerry Herman, Turner Layton, Clarence Muse, Giacomo Puccini, W.H. Ragas, Leon René, Otis René, D. James LaRocca, Vincent Rose, Harry Ruby, Luis Carl Russell, Arthur Schwartz, Terry Shand, Larry Shay, Larry Shields, John Stafford Smith, Tony Spargo, Sam Theard, Robert Thiele, Percy Venable, Ángel Villoldo, Thomas "Fats" Waller, George Weiss, Hudson Whittaker and Spencer Williams
Black and Blue
(Jan 26, 1989 - Jan 20, 1991)
Musical, Original
- Featuring songs by Ellas McDaniel, W. C. Handy, Spencer Williams, Clarence Williams, J. Turner Layton, Andy Razaf, Alex Hill, Louis Armstrong, Percy Venable, Jimmy McHugh, Doc Daugherty, Ellis Reynolds, Duke Ellington, Bubber Miley, Jimmie Lunceford, Saul Chaplin, Porter Grainger, Everett Robbins, Thomas "Fats" Waller, Harry Brooks, John Green, Harry Akst, Benny Goodman, Chick Webb, Edgar Sampson, Eubie Blake, Leslie Johnakins, Andy Kirk, Harold Arlen, Big Maybelle Smith, Sy Johnson and Leroy Kirkland
Uptown...It's Hot!
(Jan 29, 1986 - Feb 16, 1986)
Musical, Original
- Featuring songs by Louis Armstrong, Horace Gerlach, Duke Ellington, Frank Owens, Harry Akst, Harold Arlen, E. A. Swan, Jimmy McHugh, George Gershwin, Cab Calloway, Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald, Van Alexander, John Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, Count Basie, Frankie Lymon, M. A. Brunner, Sam Cooke, Al Lewis, Vincent Rose, Larry Stock, Richard Penniman, Chuck Berry, Carole King, Gerald Goffin, Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Marvin Gaye, Ivy Joe Hunter, William Stevenson, Brian Holland, Lamont Herbert Dozier, Eddie Holland, Norman J. Whitfield, John C. Fogarty, B. T. Express, Dorothy LaBostrie, Joe Lubin and Leon Evans
Blues in the Night
(Jun 02, 1982 - Jul 18, 1982)
Musical, Original
- Featuring songs by Bessie Smith, Willard Robison, Harry Revel, Harry Link, Jack Strachey, George W. Thomas, Charlie Davis, Ida Cox, Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman, Leola Wilson, Wesley Wilson, Ann Ronell, Andy Razaf, Alex Bellenda, Vernon Duke, Milton Drake, Ben Oakland, H. Grey, Harold Arlen, Bernard Hanighen, Gordon Jenkins, Harry Akst, Alberta Hunter and Jimmy Cox
Mr. Wonderful
(Mar 22, 1956 - Feb 23, 1957)
Musical, Original
- Featuring songs by Sam Coslow, W. Franke Harling, Sid Kuller, Arthur Hammerstein, Dudley Wilkinson, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, Ray Henderson, Cole Porter, Benny Davis, Harry Akst, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn
John Murray Anderson's Almanac
(Dec 10, 1953 - Jun 26, 1954)
Musical, Original
-
Featuring songs by Harry Akst
- Additional
At Home With Ethel Waters
(Sep 22, 1953 - Oct 10, 1953)
Special, Original
- Music for "I Ain't Gonna Sin No More" by Con Conrad and Herb Magidson; Music for "Sleepy Time Down South" by Clarence Muse, Leon René and Otis René; Music for "Throw Dirt" by Shelton Brooks; Music for "Am I Blue" and "Dinah" by Harry Akst; Music for "Half of Me" by Peter De Rose and Sam M. Lewis; Music for "Washtub Rubstudy," "Dance Hall Hostess" and "Somethin' Told Me..." by Alberta Nichols; Music for "Bread and Gravy" by Hoagy Carmichael; Music for "Love For Sale" by Cole Porter; Music for "Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night" by Ethel Waters and Sidney Easton; Music for "My Man" by Maurice Yvain; Music for "St. Louis Blues" by W. C. Handy; Music for "Suppertime" by Irving Berlin; Music for "Takin' a Chance on Love" and "Cabin in the Sky" by Vernon Duke; Music for "Happiness is Jes' a Thing Called Joe" and "Stormy Weather" by Harold Arlen; Music for "Lady Be Good" by George Gershwin
Swingin' The Dream
(Nov 29, 1939 - Dec 09, 1939)
Musical, Original
- Music for "Jumpin' at the Woodside" by Count Basie; Music for "Pick-a-Rib," "Rachel's Dream" and "Flying Home" by Benny Goodman; Music for "Wedding March" by Felix Mendelssohn; Music for "St. Louis Blues" by W. C. Handy; Music for "Ain't Misbehavin'" by Thomas "Fats" Waller; Music for "Ain't Misbehaving'" by Harry Brooks; Music for "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" by Jimmy Hugh; Music for "Moonglow" by Will Hudson, Eddie de Lange and Irving Mills; Music for "Hold Tight-Hold Tight" by Leonard Kent, Edward Robinson, Leonard Ware, Jerry Brandow and Willie Spotswood; Music for "My Melancholy Baby" by Ernie Burnett; Music for "Christopher Columbus" by Leon Berry; Music for "Way Down Younder in New Orleans" by Larry Clinton; Music for "Ol' Man Mose" by Louis Armstrong; Music for "Jeepers Creepers" by Harry Warren; Music for "Oh, You Crazy Moon" by James Van Heusen; Music for "The Flat Foot Floogie" by Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart and Bud Green; Music for "Down by the Old Mill Stream" by Tell Taylor; Music for "Big John's Special" by Horace Henderson; Music for "Dinah" by Harry Akst; Music for "Rose Room" by Art Hickman; Music for "Flying Home' by Lionel Hampton; Music for "Sugarfoot Stomp" by Joseph Oliver
Artists and Models [1927]
(Nov 15, 1927 - Mar 24, 1928)
Musical, Original
- Music by Harry Akst and Maurie Rubens
Music Box Revue [1922-23]
(Oct 23, 1922 - Aug 04, 1923)
Musical, Original
- Under the Personal Direction of: Harry Akst
Music Box Revue [1921]
(Sep 22, 1921 - Sep 30, 1922)
Musical, Original
- Musical Supervisor: Harry Akst
Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic [1920]
(Feb 01, 1921 - Closing date unknown)
Musical, Original
- Additional music by Max Hoffmann, Irving Berlin, Harry Akst and Dave Stamper
Ladies First
(Oct 24, 1918 - Mar 15, 1919)
Musical, Original
- Additional music by Nora Bayes, Seymour Simons, George Gershwin, Harry Clarke and Harry Akst
Blues in the Night
(Mar 09, 1985 - Mar 23, 1985)
Musical, Original
- Featuring songs by Bessie Smith, Willard Robison, Harry Revel, Harry Link, Jack Strachey, George W. Thomas, Ida Cox, Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman, Leola Wilson, Wesley Wilson, Ann Ronell, Andy Razaf, Alex Bellenda, Vernon Duke, Milton Drake, Ben Oakland, H. Grey, Harold Arlen, Bernard Hanighen, Gordon Jenkins, Harry Akst, Jimmy Cox, Edgar Sampson, Benny Goodman, Chick Webb and Billy Strayhorn
Blues in the Night
(Sep 09, 1983 - Mar 30, 1984)
Musical, Original
- Featuring songs by Bessie Smith, Willard Robison, Harry Revel, Harry Link, Jack Strachey, George W. Thomas, Ida Cox, Jimmy Davis, Roger "Ram" Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman, Leola Wilson, Wesley Wilson, Ann Ronell, Andy Razaf, Alex Bellenda, Vernon Duke, Milton Drake, Ben Oakland, H. Grey, Harold Arlen, Bernard Hanighen, Gordon Jenkins, Harry Akst, Jimmy Cox, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb, Billy Strayhorn and Benny Goodman