Tootsie as the 5 Best Comedy. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: A stage musical of the movie premiered at the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago from September 11 to October 14, 2018 before opening on Broadway in the spring of 2019. The musical has music and lyrics by David Yazbek; Robert Horn wrote the book; Denis Jones choreographed and Scott Ellis directed. Santino Fontana starred as Michael Dorsey. He is joined by Lilli Cooper as Julie Nichols, Sarah Stiles as Sandy Lester, John Behlmann as Max Van Horn, Andy Grotelueschen as Jeff Slater, Julie Halston
Larry Gelbart musical." In 1997, Gelbart published his memoir, "Laughing Matters: On Writing M*A*S*H, Tootsie, Oh, God! and a Few Other Funny Things". Gelbart was a contributing blogger at "The Huffington Post", and also was a regular participant on the alt.tv.mash Usenet newsgroup as "Elsig". In 1995, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him. He won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 1974 for "M*A*S*H". In 2002, Gelbart was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. In 2008, he was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. Gelbart was diagnosed