Manny Fox is an innovator and artistic visionary in commercial entertainment for his entire life. Born and bred in N.Y.C., his first major credential was in l959 at the fabled Cherry Lane Theatre on Commerce Street, in Greenwich Village off-Broadway where he created “The Roots of Jazz” – with African tribal royalty, Prince Onago and Princess Muana – the first presentation in the U.S. of African drums, dances, songs and rituals in a theatrical setting.

Thereafter Manny presented original Jazz Festivals with Louis Armstrong and Sarah Vaughan; and Folk Festivals at Carnegie Hall featuring a theatricalization of “Carl Sandburg’s American Songbag” with Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, Muddy Waters, Phil Ochs, Buffy Ste. Marie, the Staple Singers; the first major presentation of Performance Art “A Happening with Salvador Dali” at Lincoln Center in Philharmonic Hall with Salvador Dali painting ‘live’ onstage; numerous anthologies including The Radio Theatre of Orson Welles beginning with “The War of the Worlds”, “The Golden Age of Comedy” narrated by George Burns, “Showstoppers” – 50 performances by the original casts in Broadway musicals including Ethel Merman, Rex Harrison, Barbra Streisand, Ezio Pinza; “The Best of Broadway” for CBS, “Enchanted Evenings with Rodgers and Hammerstein” for PBS, “Freedom Rock” and a 5 LP retrospective of Duke Ellington which led to Manny producing “Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies” on Broadway starring Gregory Hines and Judith Jameson and five subsequent companies throughout the world including the first time a Broadway Musical was brought to Japan, and the first Broadway musical in Russia, and the first and only time ever of a live performance on Pay-Per-View TV directly from On Stage on Broadway.

Recently Manny produced three original children’s musicals, “On Our Own”, “Relatively Speaking” and “Questionable Quest” which performed at the Beacon Theatre on Broadway and was filmed ‘live’ on stage; wrote 100 weekly columns for the San Juan Star “Diary of a Producer”, chronicling his work as a Producer, and co-hosted 135 one half hour weekly radio shows on Radio WOSO in San Juan, “De Aqui Pa’ Broadway y Hollywood” on producing for Broadway and Films; and produced tryouts in Puerto Rico and The U.K. for: the new major musical, now headed for Broadway, – “Family Fortune“.

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