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Michael Korie

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Lyricist b. 1955

Michael Korie (born April 1, 1955) is an American librettist and lyricist whose writing for musical theater and opera includes the musicals Grey Gardens and Far From Heaven, and the operas Harvey Milk and The Grapes of Wrath. His works have been produced on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and internationally. His lyrics have been nominated for the Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award, and won the Outer Critics Circle Award. In 2016, Korie was awarded the Marc Blitzstein Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Also credited on4 works

Grey Gardens
War Paint
Flying Over Sunset
Doctor Zhivago

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In the literature8 passages

  • Bookwriter Doug Wright, composer Scott Frankel, and lyricist Michael Korie decided that in their musical adaptation, their leading lady would in the first act play middle-aged Big Edie in 1941; in the second, she’d change characters and become the middle-aged Little Edie in 1973, a couple of years before the documentary made their lives p…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • While lyricist Michael Korie and composer Scott Frankel thought there were musical possibilities in the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens, they had to admit it had many grey areas.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • Grey Gardens had to be two shows in one, and Scott Frankel and Michael Korie succeeded in writing two scores in one.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • It would be a gay occasion (in the now obsolete use of the word), so composer Scott Frankel and lyricist Michael Korie wrote mock-ups of popular songs of the day that Big Edie and her pianist would sing to entertain the guests. They sounded like genuine 1941 hits, but their introspective songs for all the Beales scored mightily, too.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
  • Scott Frankel and Michael Korie’s Grey Gardens (2006), amazingly, tenderized the freak-show documentary about two batty dames decaying in an East Hampton ruin—Kennedy relations, at that. The first act, set in the past, began as musical comedy, then turned dire; the second act, today in the ruin, was pure musical play, despite opening with…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/Anything Goes_ A History of American Musical Theatre - Ethan Mordden.txt
  • On Saturday afternoon, a big crowd sat around the spacious pool and I interviewed Michael Korie, the Grey Gardens lyricist, and Doug Wright, the librettist. They told us that composer Scott Frankel came up with the idea of writing a musical about Grey Gardens and Michael quickly came on board. Doug said that they asked him to write the bo…ebooks/Rudetsky, Seth/Seth's Broadway Diary, Volume 1_ Part 2 - Seth Rudetsky.txt

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