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Richard Lewine

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Composer 1910–2005

Richard Lewine (July 28, 1910 – May 19, 2005) was an American composer and songwriter on Broadway as well as television producer.

Also credited on1 work

Make Mine Manhattan

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In the literature5 passages

  • 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
  • During the Boston and Philadelphia tryouts, the following material was added: “Don’t Knock It” (lyric and music by Jack Baker); “The Waltz” (sketch by Dorothy Parker); “Downtown” (lyric by Lee Adams, music by Charles Strouse); “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Pretty Girl” (lyric by Arnold B. Horwitt, music by Richard Lewine); and “Noises in the T…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • During the tryout, the songs “Here It Comes Again, Spring” (lyric by Richard Lewine, music by Albert Hague) and “Noises in the Theatre” (lyric by Arnold B. Horwitt, music by Richard Lewine) were dropped; the latter had earlier been performed in the aborted 1956 Ziegfeld Follies when it was added to that revue during its pre-Broadway tryou…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • The following books were used to check facts: Songs of the Theatre by Richard Lewine and Alfred Simon (W. H. Wilson); The City and the Theatre by Mary C. Henderson (Preston); The Collector’s Guide to the American Musical Theatre by David Hummel (Scarecrow); At This Theatre by Louis Botto (Dodd, Mead); Musicals! (“Directory of Musical Prop…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • j Lyrics, Lorenz Hart; Concept, Richard Lewine, John Fearnly; Director, Michael i Ramach; Musical Director, Stuart Rosenthal; Costumes, Amanda J. Klein; Lighting, ; Nancy Codings; Sets, Karl Carrigan, Peter R. Feuche; Stage Manager, Cathy Diane ( Thomlin; Press, Jim Baldassare CAST; Gary Anderson, Suzanne Briar, Mark Doerr, 3 Hope Harris,…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1991-1992 season, v. 48 (Willis).txt

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What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
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