Also credited on2 works
Knickerbocker Holiday
Lost in the Stars
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In the literature8 passages
- The earnest and well-meaning musical was hampered by a curiously dry and remote adaptation. Maxwell Anderson’s book and lyrics never quite seemed to capture the personal tragedies of the main characters and the larger tragedy of apartheid, and Kurt Weill’s music was too often emotionally detached from the characters and the action (althou…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- It was an exciting time to be in the theater, to work for the Theater Guild, to see plays by Robert Sherwood, Sidney Howard, S. N. Behrman, and Maxwell Anderson being produced. And this Texas girl had it right there at her fingertips. I had always wanted to act. I went to school with Lady Bird Johnson, and she still tells me what a good a…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
- At university he formed a campus radio station and wrote weekly adaptations of plays, pirating everything from Eugene O’Neill, Clifford Odets, Maxwell Anderson, et cetera, and he would direct these and occasionally act in them as well. He was not a drama major simply because there was no such thing at the time, and, anyway, he didn’t beli…ebooks/Garebian, Keith/Making of Cabaret, The - Keith Garebian.txt
- “I really stopped caring what critics said when I was in a play by Maxwell Anderson, very famous guy at the time. Truckline Café (1946). Not the best play, not the worst. Pretty good—good enough. The reviews were atrocious. That’s when I figured out it wasn’t a serious thing. It was just a game. And nobody was immune.”—MARLON BRANDOebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
- Maxwell Anderson had been present at those early meetings in New York that led to the Group’s formation (though he did not become a member himself), and it was to him that Weill would turn for his next musical play.ebooks/Hinton, Stephen/Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton.txt
- Between the 1939 production of Railroads on Parade and the revised version the following year, Weill composed with Maxwell Anderson The Ballad of Magna Carta in fulfillment of a commission from the Columbia Broadcasting System. Concerning the title of this radio piece, Weill explained: “It’s a ballad like the old Scottish ones, set to mus…ebooks/Hinton, Stephen/Weill's Musical Theater_ Stages of Reform - Stephen Hinton.txt
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