Also credited on2 works
These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.
In the literature8 passages
- I blame Dwight Taylor, for his original plan was misconceived and humorless. It's easy to mistrust a script whose author has so vague a grasp on his subject that he runs through a host of titles. Taylor fondled Laughter in the Sky, Heaven on Earth, Day Dream, Stolen Fruit, Just Imagine, Summer Lightning, and the one Cole Porteresque title…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/B0035RP5R8 EBOK - Ethan Mordden.txt
- some funny stories by Dwight Taylor, got shifted to a story about an old-time melodrama queen. By then called Jennie, the plot had been suggested by the early career of the writer's mother, Laurette Taylor, the distinguished actress who later won plaudits as Amanda in the original production of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Mena-theatre-pdfs/Mary Martin-Broadway Legend (Ronald L. Davis).txt
- nomenon of musicals that never quite faded. A few examples are Gay Divorce (1932; book by Dwight Taylor, music and lyrics by Cole Porter), based on an unproduced play by J. Hartley Manners; Roberta (1933; book and lyrics by Otto Harbach, music by Jerome Kern), based on a novel. Gowns by Roberta, by Alice Duer Miller; I Married An Angel (1…theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
- Gay Divorce (1932). Book: Dwight Taylor; musical adaptation: Kenneth Webb and Samuel Hoffenstein; music and lyrics: Cole Porter. Musical bedroom farce based on an unproduced play by J. Hartley Manners. An ac-theatre-pdfs/McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama, v. 3 (I-N).txt
- OUT OF THIS WORLD Music and Lyrics, Cole Porter; Book, George Opf>enheimer; Based on a Libretto by Dwight Taylor and Regmald Lawrence; Director, Richard Michaels; Chorography, Carole Schweid; Setting, Ken Lewis; Costumes, Gerry Leahy; Lighting, George Turski; Hairstylist, Larry Costa; Pianist, Lee Gillespie; Harpist, Patricia A. Scott; Pe…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1972-73 Season, v. 29 (Willis).txt
- (Kaufman Theater) Tuesday. Feb. 24-March 29, 1987 (39 performances) Martm R. Kaufman presents: GAY DIVORCE with Music & Lyrics by Cole Porter; Book, Dwight Taylor. Kenneth Webb. Samuel Hoffenstein; Book Adaptation, Robert Brittan; Director, Robert Brink; Choreography, Helen Butlcroff; Scenery, James Morgan, Costumes, Adshead; Lighting, Je…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1986-87 Season, v. 43 (Willis, John).txt
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- Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
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