- Ockrent, Michael Robert
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▪ 2000British theatre director best known for his deft touch with comedies and musicals, notably the 1985 smash hit revival of the 1937 musical Me and My Girl and Crazy for You (1992), the Tony Award-winning reworking of George and Ira Gershwin's Girl Crazy; other Ockrent successes included Once a Catholic (1976), Educating Rita (1980), the West End debut of Stephen Sondheim's Follies (1987), a musical version of A Christmas Carol (1994), and Big (1996), a musical adaptation of the 1988 motion picture (b. June 18, 1946, London, Eng.—d. Dec. 2, 1999, New York, N.Y.).
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