Don Appell

On stage 2 productions, 4 years

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Milk and Honey

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In the literature4 passages

• For his initial Broadway assignment, composer-lyricist Jerry Herman joined playwright Don Appell to create the first musical with an Israeli setting. After spending some weeks in Israel, the writers agreed on a story concerning American tourists so that the score would not have to be written entirely in a minor key. Milk and Honey (origin…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• The very same week Stein was finishing his tentative first draft, in October 1961, Milk and Honey , the cheery Zionist musical by Don Appell (book) and Jerry Herman (music and lyrics), opened; it enjoyed a sixteen-month run. Soon after, Shelley Berman starred as the comic father in A Family Affair , a farce about plans for a big Jewish we…ebooks/Solomon, Alisa/Wonder of Wonders_ A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof - Alisa Solomon.txt
• LULLABY By Don Appell; Director, William Arrigon. CAST: Peter DeLaurier, Kathryn Arrigon, Paul Lieber,theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1976-77 Season, v. 33 (Willis).txt
• tourists vacationing in Israel. Don Appell’s libretto was sensitive, if a bit awkward,theatre-pdfs/Word Crazy-Broadway Lyricists (Hischak).txt

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