Paul Phillips, whose long career as a Broadway stage manager included work on such notable productions as Sweet Charity, Mame, Chicago and, in 1967, the now historic Judy Garland at Home at the Palace, died Dec.
5 of natural causes in Naples, Florida. He was 95.His death was announced by publicist Harlan Boll.Born in Pleasantville New York, Phillips enlisted in the U.S.
Coast Guard and was deployed to fight in the South Pacific during WWII. After the war he moved to Hollywood for an acting career, but soon returned to New York, where he would shift from acting to Broadway stage management, beginning in 1959 with director George Abbott’s Fiorella.Abbott brought Phillips over to stage manage his next play, 1961’s Take Her, She’s Mine starring
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