Julian Mitchell (director)

Julian Mitchell (November 1852 – June 23, 1926) was an American theatre director and choreographer.

[4] His education in directing came from Charles Hale Hoyt, for whom he began as a character actor and became a director in 1884.

By the time Mitchell was working with Ziegfeld, he reportedly was completely deaf and unable to read music.

His methodology was to memorize the lyrics and understand the vibrations of the sounds by standing as close to the piano as possible.

[7] Mitchell returned to performing on stage in Ziegfeld's Follies of 1910, dancing in the "A Fool There Was" sketch with Louise Alexander.