Also credited on6 works
The Pajama Game
Damn Yankees
Damn Yankees (1994 Revival)
Kwamina
Music Is
Fosse
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In the literature8 passages
- Sketches : Richard Adler, John Murray Anderson, Orson Bean, Herbert Farjeon, Phil Green, Leslie Julian Jones, Jean Kerr, Sumner Locke-Elliott, Arthur Macrae, Jerry Ross, Billy K. Wells, and Lauri Wylieebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Lyrics : Richard Adler, John Murray Anderson, Harry Belafonte, Michael Grace, Sheldon Harnick, Bart Howard, Joseph McCarthy Jr., Alan Melville, Jerry Ross, John Rox, and Carl Tuckerebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Music : Richard Adler, Harry Belafonte, Cy Coleman, Sammy Gallup, Sheldon Harnick, Bart Howard, Jerry Ross, John Rox, Henry Sullivan, and Charles Zwarebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Earlier in the season, the novice team of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross had written a number of songs for the revue John Murray Anderson’s Almanac . Five months later, their score for the smash hit The Pajama Game offered a hit-parade-load of popular songs that included “Hey, There,” “Hernando’s Hideaway,” and “Steam Heat.” The musical bec…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- The lighthearted book was full of amusing situations and one-liners, and Richard Adler and Jerry Ross provided another Pajama Game –styled score with a variety of clever and catchy songs, including the zippy opening number “Six Months Out of Every Year,” the barbershop quartet “Heart,” the mambo “Who’s Got the Pain?,” the western-styled h…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- The real-life people associated with The Pajama Game were: George Abbott and Jerome Robbins (codirectors); Bob Fosse (choreographer); Richard Adler and Jerry Ross (the composers and lyricists); Frederick Brisson, Robert E. Griffith, and Harold S. Prince (coproducers); and John Raitt and Janis Paige (the leads).ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
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