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- Act Two: “Catch Me If You Can” (Children’s Game) (lyric by Langston Hughes and Elmer Rice) (Richard Clemence, Lynn Taussig, Michael Mann, Children); “There’ll Be Trouble” (Trio) (lyric by Langston Hughes and Elmer Rice) (William Chapman, Wilma Spence, Helena Scott); “A Boy Like You” (William Spence); “We’ll Go Away Together” (Duet) (David…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- The musical was based on Elmer Rice’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play, which opened on Broadway at the Playhouse Theatre on January 10, 1929, for 601 performances. Both the drama and the musical took place on the stoop and front sidewalk of a New York City tenement during a twenty-four-hour period on a hot day and night in June. The story dep…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- In consideration of material for adaptation the element of feeling is first. Little if any is to be found in Elmer Rice's Dream Girl, or Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, yet they were translated for musical usage as Skyscraper and Her First Roman.ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- Skyscraper, based on Elmer Rice's Dream Girl, another unlikely basis for a libretto, has been described earlier.ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- Producers Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin had offered him two ideas for new musicals. One was Elmer Rice’s 1945 hit Dream Girl, about a woman who was having hallucinations, however benign; the other concerned a home owner who staunchly refused to sell to developers, which kept them from erecting a profitable building on the site.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
- Four years later I got together with Feuer and Martin for a musical based on Elmer Rice’s 1945 hit Dream Girl . Skyscraper starred Julie Harris and Charles Nelson Reilly. The main problem was that Julie, one of the great actresses of our time, never really landed as a musical performer. Although the show was nominated for a Tony, it ran f…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
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