Also credited on4 works
Hit The Deck!
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The Girl in the Pink Tights
Fosse
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In the literature8 passages
- Another musical version of the material is Columbia’s 1955 film My Sister Eileen (released on DVD by Columbia, # 07327). The lyrics are by Leo Robin, the music by Jule Styne, and the cast includes Betty Garrett, Janet Leigh, Bob Fosse, and Jack Lemmon; among the songs are “Greenwich Village,” “As Soon as They See Eileen,” “We’re Great But…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- As for the musical itself, Kerr found it “relentlessly uninspired” and Atkinson said it shared with Kismet “a lust for mediocrity”; Watts said Leo Robin’s lyrics “seemed older” than the show’s post-Civil War setting and noted the book too had its “troubles”; and Chapman said the “schmaltzy” score “didn’t hurt.” McClain noted the productio…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- “You’ll Never Get Away from Me” had first been heard as “I’m in Pursuit of Happiness” in the television musical Ruggles of Red Gap (lyrics by Leo Robin, music by Jule Styne, and teleplay by David Shaw) which had been produced by NBC’s Producers’ Showcase series on February 3, 1957. The song was performed by Jane Powell, Michael Redgrave,…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- The production included the song “L’il Ol’ You and L’il Ol’ Me” (lyric by Leo Robin, music by Jule Styne).ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- After performing in Lend an Ear, I’d work all night long with Jule Styne and Leo Robin, who did the lyrics for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Jule had an apartment with a garden, and along about three in the morning, people would throw beer bottles and other things down and scream at us to shut up. So we would be very quiet. Then Jule would as…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
- In 1954, The Girl in Pink Tights , a Broadway musical with a score by Sigmund Romberg (his last) and Leo Robin, was loosely based on circumstances surrounding the production of The Black Crook . The cast was headed by Jeanmaire, Charles Goldner, Brenda Lewis, and David Atkinson, and the show ran for 115 performances. Applause (1985).ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
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