Robert Wright (writer)

Robert C. Wright (born Daytona Beach, Florida, September 25 1914; died Miami, Florida, July 27 2005) was an American writer of musical theatre best known for the show Kismet, which used musical themes by Alexander Borodin.

Shows

• Song Of Norway (1944) (using the music of Edvard Grieg)
• Gypsy Lady (1946) (using the music of Victor Herbert)
• Magdalena (1948) (using the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos)
• Kismet (1953) (using the music of Alexander Borodin), and based on the 1911 play Kismet by Edward Knoblauch
• At the Grand (1958) (original music), an earlier version of Grand Hotel (below) that toured but did not reach Broadway
• The Love Doctor (1959) (original music) premiered in London
• Kean (1961) (original music)
• Anya (1965) (using the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff)
• The Great Waltz (1970) (using the music of Johann Strauss)
• Timbuktu (1978) (reworking of Kismet)
• Grand Hotel (1989) (original music)