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Arnold B. Horwitt

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Arnold B. Horwitt was an American lyricist and librettist best known for Plain and Fancy (1955, with composer Albert Hague), a Rodgers-and-Hammerstein-flavored musical set in Pennsylvania Amish country. He had been the original lyricist for Wonderful Town before being replaced by Comden, Green and Bernstein, and also contributed to Call Me Mister.

Also credited on2 works

Call Me Mister
Plain And Fancy

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  • Sketches : Peter De Vries, George Foster, Billy Friedberg, Mort Green, Nat Hiken, Arnold B. Horwitt, Lee Rogow, Charles Sherman, and Oliver Wakefieldebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • A few weeks before the original production of Wonderful Town went into rehearsal, the show’s lyricist Arnold B. Horwitt and composer Leroy Anderson left the musical because of artistic differences with the librettists. Almost overnight Comden, Green, and Bernstein created their classic score, and the show went on. It seems unlikely that H…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Arnold B. Horwitt and Albert Hague’s Plain and Fancy was a good solid second-drawer Rodgers-and-Hammerstein-flavored musical with the unusual locale of the Amish country in Pennsylvania. Like Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Allegro , Joseph Stein and Will Glickman’s libretto focused on the contrasting worlds of the city mouse and country mouse,…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Sketches : Goodman Ace, Arnold Auerbach, Selma Diamond, Will Glickman, Ronny Graham, Mort Green, George Foster, Arnold B. Horwitt, Coleman Jacoby, James McCall, Stanley Prager, Elliott Reid, David Rogers, Arnie Rosen, and Joseph Steinebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Lyrics : Irving Berlin, Ralph Blane, Larry Holofcener, Arnold B. Horwitt, Floyd Huddleston, Mark Lawrence, Hugh Martin, Joseph McCarthy Jr., Fred Patrick, Claude Reese, Sidney Shaw, and Chuck Sweeneyebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • During the Boston and Philadelphia tryouts, the following material was added: “Don’t Knock It” (lyric and music by Jack Baker); “The Waltz” (sketch by Dorothy Parker); “Downtown” (lyric by Lee Adams, music by Charles Strouse); “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Pretty Girl” (lyric by Arnold B. Horwitt, music by Richard Lewine); and “Noises in the T…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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