Stanley Green

Stanley Green (May 29, 1923 – December 12, 1990) was an American historian of theatre and film. He was also a writer on music who worked as an editor at Stereo Review, and was a radio personality who hosted the WBAI radio program "The World of Musical Comedy".

Life and career Stanley Green was born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 29, 1923. He attended Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he graduated in 1943. He joined the United States Army and received further education in the Army Specialized Training Program at the University of Nebraska. He then served in the United States Army Signal Corps in the Pacific War during World War II.

From 1957 to 1963 Green worked as an editor at Stereo Review.

Green died of leukemia on December 12, 1990, at Caledonian Hospital in Brooklyn.

Partial list of books The World of Musical Comedy (first published 1960; revised editions published in 1974, 1980, and 1984) The Rodgers and Hammerstein Story (1963; revised edition published in 1980) Ring Bells! Sing Songs! Broadway Musicals of the 1930’s (1971; revised edition published in 1982 as Broadway Musicals of the 1930’s) Encyclopaedia of the Musical Theater (1976; revised second edition published in 1980) Rodgers and Hammerstein Fact Book (1980) The Great Clowns of Broadway (1984) Broadway Musicals: Show by Show (1985, subsequently republished in many revised editions) Hollywood Musicals Year by Year (1990; revised second edition published in 2000)