Anecdotes

In the late 1960s he began jotting down ideas for a series of one-act plays, with the idea of getting actress Kim Stanley to play the lead in each playlet. When no producer would bite, he turned to Stephen Sondheim, who, in turn, showed the work to director Harold Prince. The result was 1970's landmark Broadway musical "Company". George later used some of the one-acts not used in "Company" to form "Twigs," a 1971 quartet of interconnected plays about four women, all from the same family.

Won Broadway's 1971 Tony Award as Best Book (Musical) for "Company."

Furth appeared in Shampoo (1975) and Bulworth (1998), both vehicles of Warren Beatty, with whom he was friends.

He graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in speech, and received a master of fine arts degree from Columbia University in 1956.

2000: Worked with Stephen Sondheim on 1981 Broadway musical "Merrily We Roll Along". It was awarded Best New Musical at the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 2001.

Stephen Sondheim and his play, "Getting Away with Murder," in a Gordon Davidson and Mark Taper Forum production at the Sundays at the Itchey Foot Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 1992 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Production.

In the early 1970s, plans to film his hit 1971 Broadway play 'Twigs' with Elizabeth Taylor playing four roles never materialized.

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, volume 144, pages 160-162. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2006.

He graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in speech and received a master of fine arts degree from Columbia University in 1956.

In the late 1990s, there was talk of Annette Bening starring in his comedy entitled "Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex, Sex," but the production never materialized.

Other plays included "Precious Sons" and "The Supporting Cast." He also wrote the book for the John Kander and Fred Ebb musical "The Act" starring Liza Minnelli. "Getting Away With Murder," a third collaboration with Stephen Sondheim, a comedy thriller that ran a few weeks in 1996, was a rare stab at straight playwriting and one of the last examples of the thriller genre to reach Broadway.

Attended and graduated from Harper High School on Chicago's Southside.

A posthumous production of "Merrily We Roll Along" debuted on Broadway Oct. 10, 2023 with Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Menendez, and Daniel Radcliffe in the leads. The limited run was nominated for seven 2024 Tony Awards, winning four: Best Orchestrations (Jonathan Tunick); Featured Actor in a Musical ( Daniel Radcliffe); Lead Actor in a Musical (Jonathan Groff); and Revival of a Musical.