Also credited on5 works
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
City of Angels
A Funny Thing... Forum (1996 Revival)
The Conquering Hero
Jerome Robbins’ Broadway
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In the literature8 passages
- I had always wanted a chin. I was born with a weak one, which may explain why I went into comedy. I remember the wonderful comedy writer Larry Gelbart saying in some article, “Carol Burnett is almost very pretty.” And I remember being quoted as replying, “That was almost very nice of him.”ebooks/Burnett, Carol/This Time Together - Carol Burnett.txt
- For a time, we also enjoyed poker night on Sundays at Barbara Sinatra’s, though it was Michelle who played, not me. I kibitzed with Larry Gelbart, Jack Lemmon, and Veronique and Gregory Peck, who laughed at me when I said that I was the only one there who didn’t play cards.ebooks/Dyke, Dick Van/My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business_ A Memoir - Dick Van Dyke.txt
- Looking back over musicals of the last few decades it seems remarkable how few outright comedies there have been---a notable exception was the Larry Gelbart-Cy Coleman-David Zippel City of Angels, with its witty juxtaposition of "real life" in Los Angeles and a film noir plot. (The emphasis on comedy did not preclude Coleman and Zippel wr…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- The composer then went to Larry Gelbart, who had co-written A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in 1962. “Larry’s musically inclined,” Coleman said. “He can play the clarinet and sax, and I knew I wouldn’t have any problems describing the music to him. If I told some other writers that I was going to do a jazz score with a comp…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- City of Angels , a witty and hilarious spoof of film noir, won the 1989–1990 Best Musical Tony. Part of the success came from Larry Gelbart’s still-sharp wit (“Her husband’s name slipped her mind. He’s seventy-five.”) and David Zippel’s especially clever lyrics: Said a disappointed wife to her author-husband, who was selling out: “Your fi…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
- Having already written a musical at Yale inspired by the farcical plays of Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC-184 BC), Burt Shevelove got together with Larry Gelbart and Stephen Sondheim to give Broadway a taste of what once convulsed Roman audiences. To come up with a suitable script — which would also adhere to the classic unities of time, p…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
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