1. Joseph Stein was an American playwright best known for writing the books for such musicals as Fiddler on the Roof and Zorba.
19 Facts About Joseph Stein
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Joseph Stein began his career as a psychiatric social worker from 1939 until 1945, while writing comedy on the side.
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Joseph Stein later started working in television for Sid Caesar when he joined the writing team of Your Show of Shows that included Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, and Neil Simon.
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Joseph Stein later wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation.
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Joseph Stein wrote the plays Mrs Gibbons' Boys and Before the Dawn.
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Joseph Stein co-wrote, with Carl Reiner, the screenplay for the film adaptation of Enter Laughing.
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Joseph Stein wrote the book for the musical All About Us, with a score by Kander and Ebb, based on The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder.
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The York Theatre featured Joseph Stein's Take Me Along, Carmelina, and Plain and Fancy as its 2006 "Musicals in Mufti" staged concert series.
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Joseph Stein revised Carmelina reducing it to a cast of seven from its original Broadway version for the York reading.
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Juno, with music and lyrics by Marc Blitzstein and book by Joseph Stein is based on the 1924 play Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey.
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Joseph Stein lived in Manhattan with his wife Elisa Loti, an Obie Award and Theatre World Award-winning actress who was featured on the cover of LIFE Magazine and who is a psychotherapist practicing as Elisa Joseph Stein.
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Joseph Stein was a member of the Dramatists Guild Council from 1975 until his death.
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Joseph Stein died in 2010, aged 98, from complications of a fall.
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Joseph Stein's son Harry Stein, unlike his father, is a political conservative and a writer known for his satirical political commentary.
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Joseph Stein had two other sons, Daniel and Josh, from his first marriage to Sadie Singer Stein, who died in 1974.
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Joseph Stein had a stepdaughter, Jenny Lyn Bader, and a stepson, John M Bader, from his marriage to Elisa Loti.
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In January 2008, Joseph Stein was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame.
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Joseph Stein was honored by The Dramatists Guild of America with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008 and by the York Theatre with the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre in 2007.
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Joseph Stein was awarded the prestigious York Theatre Company's Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre in 2007.