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- Sketches : Richard Adler, John Murray Anderson, Orson Bean, Herbert Farjeon, Phil Green, Leslie Julian Jones, Jean Kerr, Sumner Locke-Elliott, Arthur Macrae, Jerry Ross, Billy K. Wells, and Lauri Wylieebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Jean Kerr contributed two sketches that knocked ’em dead. “Don Brown’s Body” was a wicked spoof of the recent trend of staged readings of the Don Juan in Hell and John Brown’s Body variety. In this case, the high-toned and reverent reading was of a Mickey Spillane/Mike Hammer mystery all done up with pretentious airs by its cast of reader…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- When Jean Kerr’s comedies King of Hearts (1954) and Mary, Mary (1961) premiered on Broadway, Walter Kerr stepped aside and let other critics review them (and when the Kerrs cowrote the 1958 Broadway musical Goldilocks , he understandably didn’t review it). But for his review of Almanac , he noted that some of the revue’s sketches were wri…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- In his review of The Vamp , Kerr noted that “move-making in New York in 1913” was “ready for exploitation,” and three years later he, his wife Jean Kerr, Jean Ford, and composer Leroy Anderson wrote Goldilocks , another tribute to making silent movies in the New York of 1913. Despite an amusing book and a delicious score, the show didn’t…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Walter and Jean Kerr’s book was quite amiable, but just missed the final touch of wit and zaniness that one expected of them; but their lyrics (with co-lyricist Joan Ford) were always on target, and “No One’ll Ever Love You,” “There Never Was a Woman,” and “The Beast in You” were amusing songs that depicted the characters’ various comic a…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- My first contribution to a Broadway show was to John Murray Anderson’s Almanac, in 1953. Richard Adler and Jerry Ross did most of the songs, and Jean Kerr provided sketches. The revue kicked off a lot of people: Harry Belafonte, Orson Bean, Billy DeWolfe, Polly Bergen, and Hermione Gingold in her American debut.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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