Jay Blackton(1909-1994)
- Music Department
- Composer
- Make-Up Department
Composer, conductor, pianist and arranger who gave his first piano
concerto at the Brooklyn Academy of Music at age 12. He conducted the
New York Opera Comique, the Federal Grand Opera Project and the Federal
Gilbert and Sullivan Project, the St. Louis Municipal Opera, and the
Delaware Philharmonic. He directed the music for the Broadway
production of Oklahoma!; Annie Get Your Gun; Inside U.S.A.; Miss
Liberty; Call Me Madam; Wish You Were Here; New Faces of 1956; Happy
Hunting; Oh Captain; Redhead; Mr. President; and The Girl Who Came to
Supper.