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Howard Dietz

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LyricistDirectorBook WriterComposer 1896–1983

Howard Dietz (September 8, 1896 – July 30, 1983) was an American publicist, lyricist, and librettist, best remembered for his songwriting collaboration with Arthur Schwartz. According to historian Stanley Green, Dietz and Schwartz were "most closely identified with the revue form of musical theatre."

Also credited on15 works

At Home Abroad
Between the Devil
Flying Colors
Inside U.S.A.
Jennie
Poppy
Revenge With Music
Second Little Show
That’s Entertainment
The Band Wagon
The Gay Life
The Little Show
Three’s a Crowd
Fosse
A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical

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In the literature8 passages

  • Fledermaus, Die Metropolitan Opera Music by Johann Strauss Book by Garson Kanin Lyrics by Howard Dietz CD PACO 030ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • 17 . Ibid., 38. In Lees’s undocumented claim, Lerner and Loewe “knew that he [Pascal] had previously approached Rodgers and Hammerstein, Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz, Cole Porter, and E. Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy, all of whom had turned the project down as fraught with insoluble book problems.” Gene Lees, Inventing Champagne , 88.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
  • Howard Dietz, lyricist and skitwriter for the revue Flying Colors, was especially distressed when he had to audition the endless vaudeville acts that would be interspersed between sketches and songs in that show. He commented: ‘One day I was sitting with Helen Broderick at an audition watching a man whose act was to do a violent and comic…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
  • The revue was a reunion for Lillie and Gardiner, who had appeared together in Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz’s 1935 revue At Home Abroad .ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • (*) “(An) (That) Element of Doubt” (lyric by Howard Dietz, music by Sammy Fain) (Young Lady: Loray White; Boy: Joel Grey; Girl: Muriel Landers); later heard in the Broadway revue Ziegfeld Follies of 1957 (but was dropped from the revue during the run);ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Lyrics : Marshall Barer, Howard Dietz, Herman Hupfield, Jack Lawrence, Carolyn Leigh, Hupio Minucci, Colin Romoff, Larry Spier, and Tony Veloneebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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