- For the Canadian politician, see Mike Brown
(politician).
Michael Brown (born circa 1920 in Mexia, Texas) is a producer and writer of songs and books whose most-widely-known work might be several
children's books about Santa
Mouse.
Brown has served several terms as a member of the board of the Songwriters
Guild of America.
Industrial musical career
Starting in 1953, he produced industrial musicals for corporate clients in the United States and other countries. His biggest
production was DuPont's multi-million-dollar Wonderful
World of Chemistry at the 1964 New York
World's Fair. Brown wrote, produced, and directed a musical involving interaction between live performers and life-sized
actors on film. In over 17,000 performances it was seen by over 5.2 million people.
Another example of his corporate work is an industrial musical revue for Woolworth performed in June 1965 called Mr. Woolworth Had a Notion.
Broadway songs
His first work on Broadway was the song "Lizzie Borden" in Leonard Sillman's New Faces of 1952.
Writing with Harold Arlen, he wrote "Indoor Girl" sung by Pearl Bailey in House of Flowers and then by himself created the score for the English musical
Is There Intelligent Life on Earth?. He also wrote a production number for the
Carol Channing company of Sugar Babies and the book, music, and lyrics for the nineteen-day run of Different Times.
Brown is married to Joy
Williams Brown, a former ballerina.
Santa Mouse bibliography
These have been reprinted under various ISBN numbers; not all Santa Mouse books were written by Brown
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