Ralph Blane

On stage 3 productions, 4 years

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Worked with more than once3 names

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Also credited on2 works

Best Foot Forward
Three Wishes for Jamie “A New Musical Play”

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In the literature8 passages

• Lyrics : Irving Berlin, Ralph Blane, Larry Holofcener, Arnold B. Horwitt, Floyd Huddleston, Mark Lawrence, Hugh Martin, Joseph McCarthy Jr., Fred Patrick, Claude Reese, Sidney Shaw, and Chuck Sweeneyebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Music : Irving Berlin, Ralph Blane, Jerry Bock, Cy Coleman, Buster Davis, Milton DeLugg, Marvin Fisher, Albert Hague, Richard Lewine, Hugh Martin, Alton Rinker, Sidney Shaw, and Jack Valebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• “Faster Than Sound” (with lyric and music credited to Ralph Blane and Hugh Martin) had originally been written for the team’s 1954 musical film Athena ; it was performed by Vic Damone and chorus for a nightclub sequence, but was deleted from the final release print. A brief glimpse of the number can be seen as it’s about to begin (but no…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• Cast: William Gaxton, Vera Zorina, Victor Moore, Irene Bordoni, Carol Bruce, Nick Long Jr., Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane, Edward H. Robinsebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
• The critics were very mixed, and the show failed, despite an engaging score (by Ralph Blane) and wonderful performers, especially Rae, who made the most of her trick contralto-with- Lakme-extension in her wooing of Dennis, "I'll Sing You a Song." Maybe the show's ethnicity was too heavily explored. Maybe the "barren" thing was too dark ev…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/B0035RP5R8 EBOK - Ethan Mordden.txt
• Lashings of Irish whimsy arrived in Three Wishes for Jamie (92), with a distinguished leading man in John Raitt and some pleasing songs by Ralph Blane. Buttrio Square (7) survived a traumatic gestation only to be trashed in New York. Perhaps remembering Hammerstein’s translation of Bizet’s Carmen into Carmen Jones , less skilful authors t…ebooks/Wright, Adrian/West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright.txt

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