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Frank "Fraver" Verlizzo
Frank "Fraver" Verlizzo is an American design artist and
Drama Desk Award -winner. He is best known for creating the posters for many prominent
Broadway productions, including the original productions of
Stephen Sondheim 's
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and
Sunday in the Park with George .
Early life
Fraver is a native
New Yorker , born in
Manhattan and raised in the
Bronx . He attended the
High School of Art and Design and the
Pratt Institute . It was at Pratt that he received his first big break in the theater industry, as his illustration teacher was
David Edward Byrd , the man who designed the poster art for the original productions of the musicals
Follies and
Godspell . Byrd, seeing that Fraver's work largely centered on movies,
[1] suggested he visit The Blaine Thompson Agency,
[2] at the time the largest
advertising agency for Broadway shows.
Notable past work
Eileen
Travesties (1975)
The Night of the Iguana (revivals, 1976 and 1988)
American Buffalo (1977 and 2000)
The Merchant (1977)
Otherwise Engaged (1977)
Cheaters (1978)
Deathtrap (1978)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979)
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1979)
I Ought to Be in Pictures (1980)
A Doll's Life (1982)
Beyond Therapy (1982)
"Master Harold"...and the Boys (1983)
Total Abandon (1983)
Baby (1984)
Sunday in the Park with George (1984)
As Is (1985)
Loot (revival, 1986)
Burn This (1987)
Roza (1987)
Spoils of War (1988)
Michael Feinstein Piano and Voice (1990)
An Inspector Calls (revival, 1995)
David Copperfield: Dreams and Nightmares (1996)
The Young Man From Atlanta (1997)
The Glass Menagerie (revival, 1995)
Getting Away With Murder (1996)
The Lion King (1997)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1997)
Electra (revival, 1998)
It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues (1999)
Waiting in the Wings (revival, 1999)
Death and the Maiden (2002)
Fortune's Fool (2002)
Imaginary Friends (2002)
Morning's At Seven (revival, 2002)
Prymate (2004)
Twelve Angry Men (2004)
Little Women (2005)
Primo (2005)
Festen (2006)
Twentieth Century (revival, 2004)
Hot Feet (2006)
The Threepenny Opera (revival, 2006)
Journey's End (revival, 2007)
The Story of My Life (2009)
Looped (2010)
[3]
Fraver.com
Fraver recently created Fraver.com, an educational
website devoted to preserving his projects and the stories behind them.
References
External links