Boris Aronson was an American scenic designer for Broadway and Yiddish theatre.
16 Facts About Boris Aronson
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Boris Aronson won the Tony Award for Scenic Design six times in his career.
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The son of a Rabbi, Aronson was born in Kiev, in the Russian Empire, and enrolled in art school during his youth.
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Boris Aronson became an apprentice to the designer Aleksandra Ekster, who introduced him to the directors Vsevolod Meyerhold and Alexander Tairov, who influenced him.
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Boris Aronson wrote two books in Berlin, on Marc Chagall and Jewish graphic art, before he obtained an Immigrant Visa for America in 1923.
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Boris Aronson moved to the Lower East Side in New York City and began designing sets and costumes for the more experimental of the city's Yiddish theatres, including the Unser Theater, the Schildkraut Theatre, and most notably Maurice Schwartz's Yiddish Art Theatre.
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Boris Aronson achieved fame in New York's Jewish community when he designed Schwartz's 1926 revival of Abraham Goldfaden's play The Tenth Commandment.
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From 1934 to 1952, Boris Aronson designed scenes, costumes, and lighting for thirty-four plays and three musicals on Broadway, but those successes were overshadowed by his work for the original 1953 production of The Crucible and the 1955 The Diary of Anne Frank.
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Boris Aronson continued work on Broadway into the 1960s and 1970s with musicals including Do Re Mi, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Zorba, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, and Pacific Overtures.
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Boris Aronson won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design three times.
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Boris Aronson helped Boris with the design of many of his productions.
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Boris Aronson designed sets for the Metropolitan Opera and ballet companies, including the production of The Nutcracker choreographed by Mikhail Baryshnikov.
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Boris Aronson was a non-theatrical artist, working as a painter and sculptor.
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Boris Aronson's wife was Lisa Jalowetz, who worked on many of Boris Aronson's shows as his assistant.
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In 1979, a year before his death, Boris Aronson was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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Boris Aronson had made a study of how many buttons he pushed on an average day in New York City.