![]() ![]() representative until the playwright’s death in 1973.īut it was in selecting the performers who graced some of the most popular plays and musicals of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s that Johnson forged his most enduring legacy. Johnson became a close friend of Coward, serving as his U.S. It was Coward who gave Johnson an early break, selecting him to be a stage manager for the Broadway production of “Sail Away,” a 1961 musical that was a key stepping stone in the career of another theater luminary, Elaine Stritch. In a career that spanned decades, Johnson worked with Broadway legends such as Hal Prince, Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Merrick and Noël Coward. Geoffrey Johnson, the casting director for “ Cats” and “Les Miserables,” died Friday in New York City at the age of 91, Variety has confirmed.
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