Also credited on11 works
My Fair Lady
Camelot
Brigadoon
Paint Your Wagon
Performances: 15
My Fair Lady (2018 Revival)
Gigi
The Day Before Spring
What’s Up?
Fosse
Brigadoon
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In the literature8 passages
- Expansion may simply be fleshing out the author’s intentions. When Alan Lerner working along with Frederick Loewe tried to adapt Shaw’s Pygmalion in 1954, they decided ‘it could not be made into a musical. We just didn’t know how to enlarge the play into a big musical without hurting the content. But when we went through the play again ..…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s musical first opened at the Ziegfeld Theatre on March 13, 1947, for 581 performances. As of this writing, the musical has enjoyed ten New York revivals.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Paint Your Wagon was Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s first musical since Brigadoon opened in 1947. Set in the colorful days of the California Gold Rush during the 1850s, the story centered on Ben Rumson (James Barton), whose daughter Jennifer (Olga San Juan) discovers gold dust on his property. Almost overnight Ben finds his land tr…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Between the 1955 and 1963 engagements, Chevalier’s remarkable career enjoyed a second flowering when he appeared in Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s hit 1958 film musical Gigi , which won a then-record eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture (Chevalier also won a special honorary Oscar that year). In the film, Chevalier introduc…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Johnson had the distinction of introducing on Broadway songs by Vernon Duke, Cole Porter, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, and Rodgers and Hammerstein. In Duke’s Banjo Eyes (1941), he introduced the jaunty “Not a Care in the World”; in Porter’s Something for the Boys (1943) he and Ethel Merman introduced “Hey, Good Lookin’”; and in Le…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s musical opened on March 15, 1956, and when it closed on September 29, 1962, it was the longest-running Broadway musical in history, with 2,717 performances to its credit. As soon as it opened, it was recognized as an instant classic and its songs became part of the popular culture.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
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