Also credited on15 works
My Fair Lady
Camelot
Brigadoon
Love Life
Paint Your Wagon
Performances: 15
On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
My Fair Lady (2018 Revival)
Carmelina
Coco
Dance a Little Closer
Gigi
The Day Before Spring
What’s Up?
Brigadoon
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In the literature8 passages
- Until the Second World War, there were not two centres for musical theatre, but at least four. Alan Jay Lerner , the librettist behind My Fair Lady said, “Broadway cannot live without the musical theatre, but the musical theatre can live without Broadway. After all, its first home was Paris and then Vienna and then London and then New Yor…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- [14] Alan Jay Lerner , The Musical Theatre: A Celebration , McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1986, p. 236.ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- Like Fall , Oscar Straus (1870-1954) had also written for the cabarets, including some presented by Max Reinhardt . Alan Jay Lerner says, “He was the only one of them all with an appreciation of comedy.” [53] In 1908, Straus ’s Der tapfere Soldat (“ The Courageous Soldier”) opened with a libretto by Rudolf Bernauer (1880-1953) and Leopold…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- Over a meal in Leicester Square, he gave me a lecture on why Alan Jay Lerner ’s lyrics to “On the Street Where You Live ” were sloppy. Ignoring the obvious fact that it should have read “ In the Street Where You Live”, he went straight to the line “People stop and stare / they don’t bother me / There is no place else on earth where I woul…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- Alan Jay Lerner once said, “It is highly unlikely that any spectator from the days of stone seats to the present has ever learned anything from the theatre. He may experience the entire lexicon of emotions; be tickled to laughter or moved to tears; be stimulated, mystified or exalted by the grandeur of language. But leave the theatre genu…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
- 157 A story in The New York Times on Wednesday, 20 July 1949 reported that Alan Jay Lerner and Fredrick Loewe were “at work on a new musical […] that is set in the United States in the nineteenth century” (the show that became Paint Your Wagon ). From Bernstein's angry reaction in this letter, it seems Lerner must have suggested a collabo…ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
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