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Maurice Valency

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Lyricist 1903–1996

Maurice Valency (22 March 1903 – 28 September 1996) was a playwright, author, critic, and popular professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University, best known for his award-winning adaptations of plays by Jean Giraudoux and Friedrich Dürrenmatt. He wrote several original plays, but is best known for his adaptations of the plays of others. Valency's version of The Madwoman of Chaillot would become the basis of the Jerry Herman musical Dear World on Broadway. He is also noted for his book The Flower and the Castle: An Introduction to Modern Drama. John Gassner in his review of this book said that Mr. Valency brought to his work "a lifetime of study and experience as well as a viewpoi…

Also credited on2 works

Dance Me a Song
Dear World

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In the literature8 passages

  • Ondine by Jean Giraudoux, as adapted by Maurice Valency (46th Street Theatre, February 18, 1954, 157 performances)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • French (Canada) Ltd., 480 University Avenue, Toronto. To Random House, Inc., and Lillian Hellman for their consent to the inclusion of The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman. Copyright 1939 and renewed 1967 by Lillian Hellman. Reprinted from Six Plays by Lillian Hellman by permission of Random House, Inc. To Random House, Inc., and Maurice V…theatre-pdfs/A Treasury of the Theatre, v. 2.txt
  • Valency published by Random House, Copyright 1949 by Maurice Valency. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc. Caution: All rights, including professional, amateur, motion picture, recitation, lecturing, public reading, radio and television broadcasting, and thetheatre-pdfs/A Treasury of the Theatre, v. 3.txt
  • be added concerning the version presented in this book, that Maurice Valency, the translator-adapter of the play for the American production, restored passages of the author’s lavish dialogue that had been omitted in the Broadway production. interest.theatre-pdfs/A Treasury of the Theatre, v. 3.txt
  • ANGELA LANSGURY DEAR WORLD JERRY HERMAN JEROME LAWRENCE .. ROBERT E,LEE JEAN GIRAUDOUX, » nse MAURICE VALENCYtheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
  • THE VISIT By Friedrich Duerrenmatt; Adapted by Maurice Valency; Directed by Harold Prince; Scenery, Edward Burbridge; Costumes, Carolyn Parker; Lighting, Ken Billington; Assistant Director, Ruth Mitchell; Music Consultant, Paul Gemignanitheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1973 74 Season, v. 30 (Willis).txt

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