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Hal Hackady

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Lyricist 1922–2015

Harold Clayton MacHackady (February 10, 1922 – October 12, 2015), best known as Hal Hackady, and sometimes credited as Hal Hackaday, was an American lyricist, librettist and screenwriter.

Also credited on5 works

Almost Crazy
Ambassador
Goodtime Charley
Minnie’s Boys
Teddy & Alice

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In the literature8 passages

  • Sketches : Robert A. Bernstein, Hal Hackady, Lester Judson, Kay Medford, and James Sheltonebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Lyrics : Lenny Adelson, Helen Bragdon, Joyce Geary, Hal Hackady, Stan Hagler, Jim Kay, Portia Nelson, Sam Rosen, James Shelton, and Raymond (Ray) Taylorebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Goodtime Charley (Palace; Mar. 3, ’75; 104) had a book by Sidney Michaels (Ben Franklin in Paris ) and a score by Larry Grossman and Hal Hackady, their second for Broadway after the flop Minnie’s Boys. Grossman, a talented composer, wrote four interesting scores for four Broadway flops, Minnie’s Boys, Goodtime Charley, A Doll’s Life, and…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
  • 94 Lyricist Hal Hackady’s (?–) credits include Minnie’s Boys (1970), Ambassador (1971), and Goodtime Charley (1975).ebooks/Unknown/Alan Jay Lerner_ A Lyricist's Letters - Unknown.txt
  • Don Ettlinger’s book and Hal Hackady’s lyrics failed to come up with anything noteworthy in an evening that had embarrassingly unfunny comedy numbers (‘You Can Tell a Lady by her Hat’ and ‘What Can You Do with a Nude?’), a depressing aria for its ingénue Isobel Stuart (‘Love Finds the Lonely’), and too many songs that strained to create a…ebooks/Wright, Adrian/Tanner's Worth of Tune_ Rediscovering the post-war British Musical, A - Adrian Wright.txt
  • Ambassador Music by Don Gohman; lyrics by Hal Hackady; book by Don Ettlinger, based on the novel The Ambassadors by Henry James. Her Majesty’s Theatre, 19 October 1971. PC: Howard Keel, Danielle Darrieux, Isobel Stuart. MN: A Man You Can Set Your Watch By; It’s a Woman; Lambert’s Quandary; Lilas; The Right Time the Right Place; Surprise;…ebooks/Wright, Adrian/Tanner's Worth of Tune_ Rediscovering the post-war British Musical, A - Adrian Wright.txt

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