Also credited on8 works
Funny Girl
Carnival!
New Girl In Town
Take Me Along
Sugar
Funny Girl (2022 Revival)
Breakfast At Tiffany’s
The Red Shoes
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- Bob Merrill had written a number of hit novelty songs (such as “How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?”), and New Girl in Town was his first Broadway score (his second score, for Take Me Along , was also based on a play by O’Neill). His ballads for New Girl in Town were somewhat bland, but most of his songs were on target, especially “On…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Lyrics and Music : Bob Merrill (ballet and incidental music by Laurence Rosenthal)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Bob Merrill composed the attractive score for New Girl in Town , which he adapted from Eugene O’Neill’s drama Anna Christie , and Take Me Along , his second Broadway score, was also based on O’Neill. Ah, Wilderness! offered promising source material because it was O’Neill’s only comedy, a sunny excursion into the rose-colored past of a lo…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- In 1966 Capote's novella Breakfast at Tiffany's became one of the legendary theatre fiascos when David Merrick hired songwriter Bob Merrill (who'd written the scores for Take McAlong and Carnival as well as the lyrics for Funny Girl) and the veteran writer/director Abe Burrows to turn it into a musical. When the show was floundering Merri…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- Of course, Bob Merrill worked arguably harder; lyricists always do. But Styne alone made the move that would immeasurably benefit Funny Girl. After he saw that Kanin had no new ideas, he called Jerome Robbins, the directorial superstar of the day who, as we saw in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, was also the premier show d…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- Still, good as Jule Styne and Bob Merrill’s score was, Streisand was thought to be the reason that Funny Girl was drawing significant crowds. So what would happen after Streisand left the show (the minute her contract ran out) on December 26, 1965, after nearly seven hundred performances?ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
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