Also credited on6 works
Carmelina
Earl Carroll Vanities
Everything
Finian’s Rainbow
On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
Rainbow
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In the literature8 passages
- 19 . The title Phinney’s Rainbow incorporated allusions to Finian’s Rainbow , a popular musical of 1947 with lyrics by E. Y. Harburg and music by Burton Lane and to the president of Williams at the time, James Phinney Baxter.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
- A revised version of the musical was presented in Los Angeles and San Francisco in 1952 as Jollyanna , with additional music by William Friml and Burton Lane (all the new lyrics were by Harburg). Howard Bay returned to provide the décor, and Bil Baird’s Marionettes were in the production. Others in the cast were Bobby Clark (Bigelow), Mit…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Burton Lane’s richly melodic score and E. Y. Harburg’s alternately romantic and satiric lyrics gave Broadway one of its finest scores and solidified the period as one of the Broadway musical’s golden eras, with the openings of such classics as Oklahoma! , One Touch of Venus , Bloomer Girl , On the Town , Carousel , Annie Get Your Gun , St…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Rumor : “Composer’s composer” (according to composer Burton Lane) Frederick Loewe had a protégée named Anna Maria von Steiner who was a “world-famous pianist and [the] inspiration of [sic] My Fair Lady.”ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
- Flahooley was originally called Toyland, and Harold Arlen, then Burton Lane was announced to write the music. Ultimately, E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy, who had already collaborated on Finian’s Rainbow and Bloomer Girl and would later write Jamaica together, wrote the book, directed, and coproduced with Cheryl Crawford, while Sammy Fain wro…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
- But Schwartz’s defection to another show seems to have invoked Lerner’s ire, according to the composer’s son, Jonathan Schwartz. Years later, the latter explained how his father had been in need of money and could not afford to wait for the notoriously slow Lerner to get around to working on their projected stage musicals, hence he went t…ebooks/McHugh, Dominic/Loverly_The Life and Times of My Fair Lady (Broadway Legacies) - Dominic McHugh.txt
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