Also credited on2 works
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In the literature8 passages
- Marguerite Original London Cast recording Music by Michel Legrand Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer , Original French Lyrics by Alain Boublil , Book by Alain Boublil , Claude-Michel Schönberg and Jonathan Kent First Night CAST CD102ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- Rookies of the Year: Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg, and Herbert Kretzmerebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- There had to be a British influence of another kind: translation. Most of the lyrics were supplied by Herbert Kretzmer, a former theater critic for London’s Daily Express, who had written lyrics for the West End musicals Our Man Crichton and The Four Musketeers. Luckily, he wrote songs for Charles Aznavour, which brought him to the attent…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- With Herbert Kretzmer writing the English Iyrics (and James Fenton credited for “additional material”), Les Misérables was successfully launched in London in 1985 at the RSC’s Barbican Theatre, then brought to New York two years later by Mackintosh with the original lead, Colm Wilkinson, repeating his impressive performance as Valjean. (W…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- ‘You can’t listen to an orchestra playing “OP Man River” without hearing Hammerstein’s lyric and understanding what it’s about,’ says Herbert Kretzmer. ‘It’s a question of finding what Johnny Mercer called the sound of the music. You’re trying to capture something as elusive as a sound which suggests a word from which, eventually, a compl…ebooks/Steyn, Mark/Broadway Babies Say Goodnight_ Musicals Then and Now - Mark Steyn.txt
- Herbert Kretzmer was making a musical of Pinero’s play Trelawny of the Wells . Anna Quayle would star in the musical Navvy , a treatment of Terry Coleman’s book about the railway navvies; this had music by Derrick Mason scored for cimbalon and percussion, and would be directed by Gillian Lynne. John Barry’s musical of Graham Greene’s Brig…ebooks/Wright, Adrian/Tanner's Worth of Tune_ Rediscovering the post-war British Musical, A - Adrian Wright.txt
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