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Milton Schafer

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Composer 1920–2020

Milton Schafer (September 24, 1920 – April 12, 2020) was an American composer and pianist. After being a runner-up for first prize in the Texas-based national guild of piano teachers competition, Schafer continued his studies for a year in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. He returned to the U.S. to give his Town Hall début as a pianist in 1950, receiving very favorable reviews and performed there again in 1954. He worked as musical assistant (accompanist and adviser) to Bob Merrill ("(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?") for two years and after a stint at MGM in Hollywood, Vernon Duke signed him as a composer with Frank Loesser's publishing company, Frank Music. His first (unproduced) musica…

Also credited on2 works

Drat! the Cat!
The Happy Time

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  • Drat! The Cat! was a luckless show. Ira Levin wrote the only book and lyrics of his career, and Milton Schafer, who had done Bravo Giovanni three years earlier, composed the music. Joey Heatherton was signed for the lead, but when she turned thumbs down on a candidate for the male lead, the producers informed her that casting was none of…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
  • melodies, which are not striking. Composer Milton Schafer actually sustains the show best with the continuity of agreeable music, rather than as a songsmith.theatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt

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