Also credited on14 works
42nd Street
Alive and Kicking
Barnum
Bring Back Birdie
Bye Bye Birdie
Carnival!
George M!
Harrigan ‘n Hart
Hello, Dolly!
Hello, Dolly! (2017 Revival)
I Love My Wife
Mack & Mabel
The Grand Tour
42nd Street
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In the literature8 passages
- Every one of us wonders, however, where the idea that all the creative people listed above come from. It has to be more than, as Michael Stewart, librettist of Hello, Dolly, Barnum and 42nd Street insists, ‘the public library’. Certainly the inspiration to musicalise a minor series of poems by T. S. Eliot that resulted in the blockbuster…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- Michael Stewart, librettist of Bye Bye Birdie, Carnival, Hello, Dolly and Barnum, always exhorted anyone who wished to write a musical to explore books that had been successful and were now in the public domain. ‘It’s all there.’ he said. ‘To become a millionaire, all you have to do is dig it out.’ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- Michael Stewart who writes both lyrics and librettos, but only once did both together in I Love My Wife, adds to the plus column the ego-satisfying feeling of ‘having the enormous pleasure of not passing the ball to that other person who suddenly comes in when you’ve done all the work and built up to it; and he takes a piece of it and doe…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- Hello, Dolly, Michael Stewart’s libretto that critic Martin Gottfried calls ‘one of the best our musical theater has ever produced’ is another example of multiple plots. 102 Here there are two couples, a situation which affords so many possibilities for ensemble numbers. We are introduced, almost at the outset to Dolly Levi, the widowed m…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- 102 Not only has American critic Martin Gottfried championed Hello, Dolly’s libretto, British critic Mark Steyn too is lavish with his praise for Michael Stewart’s book: ‘If they ever did a university course on the great musical, they should start with this one. It’s so good it’s unobtrusive. When you come away from a musical and you reme…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- 124 Michael Stewart, Hello, Dolly’s librettist, told me he deplored Barbra Streisand’s insistence on wearing a topaz sequined gown for the movie version. ‘I specifically wrote into the script that Dolly comes down the steps of the Harmonia Gardens in a bright red gown because I wanted to give a hint that the blood was coursing again throu…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
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