Gross had remained friendly with Guber, and together with
Frank Ford they established the
Valley Forge Music Fair in
Devon, Pennsylvania in 1955, initially in a circus tent and later replaced by a permanent structure with 2,900 seats built in
theater in the round style. With Ford out of the picture, Gross and Guber constructed a theater on the site that could fit 3,000 attendees. Among the stars who performed at their suburban theaters were
Tony Bennett,
Jack Benny,
Milton Berle,
Ray Charles,
Bill Cosby,
Sammy Davis Jr.,
Judy Garland,
Bob Hope,
Liza Minnelli,
Don Rickles,
Smokey Robinson,
Kenny Rogers,
Frank Sinatra,
Bruce Springsteen and
Stevie Wonder. Similar facilities established by the team included the Painters Mill Music Fair outside of
Baltimore and the Shady Grove Music Fair outside
Washington, D.C. They also ran the Deauville Star Theater at
Miami Beach's Deauville Hotel, and the Camden County Music Fair in
Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The pair ran a concert division that arranged performances nationwide, including traveling productions of
Broadway theater hits such as
Cabaret,
Fiddler on the Roof,
Gypsy and
Man of La Mancha. They also produced theatrical revivals on Broadway, such as a year-long run of
Lorelei in 1974 with
Carol Channing, and a
Yul Brenner-led production of
The King and I that debuted in 1977 and ran for nearly 700 performances. == Personal ==