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Larry Holofcener

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Lyricist 1926–2017

Lawrence Holofcener (February 23, 1926 – March 4, 2017) was an American-British sculptor, poet, lyricist, playwright, novelist, actor and director. He held British and American dual citizenship.

Also credited on2 works

Catch a Star!
The Broken Date

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature8 passages

  • Lyrics : Lee Adams, I. A. L. Diamond, Larry Holofcener, Ray Golden, Sy Kleinman, Norman Martin, Dave Ormont, Milton Pascal, Danny Shapiro, and Paul (Francis) Websterebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Walter Kerr in the New York Herald Tribune said about 70 percent of the revue was “agreeable” and wondered what to call a show that “falls between a flop and a smash”; here was a “truly passable entertainment” with energetic performers and occasionally pleasant songs (such as Jerry Bock and Larry Holofcener’s “genteel ditty” that told “Th…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Jerry Bock and Larry Holofcener’s highly praised “The Story of Alice” was later heard in two Off-Broadway revues, No Shoestrings (1962) and the second edition of Seven Come Eleven (1963).ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • (*) “The Story of Alice” (lyric by Larry Holofcener, music by Jerry Bock) (Aileen Stanley Jr., Will Holt, Dorothy Greener, Paul Jayson); originally performed in the 1955 Broadway revue Catch a Star! ;ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • “The Story of Algernon” (lyric by Larry Holofcener, music by Jerry Bock) (Aileen Stanley Jr., Dorothy Greener, Mace Barrett, Paul Jayson); (**) = see belowebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • “The Story of a Beautiful Child” (lyric by Larry Holofcener, music by Jerry Bock) (Aileen Stanley Jr., Dorothy Greener, Mace Barrett, Paul Jayson) (**) = see belowebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

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