Robert E. Lee

On stage 1 production

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Also credited on4 works

Dear World
Look, Ma, I’m Dancin’!
Mame
Shangri-La

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In the literature8 passages

• Another of the success-failures lacking subplot and appreciable romance is Mame, based on Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's adaptation of their soap opera Auntie Mame (based on Patrick Dennis's novel), which as a play ran along successfully starring Rosalind Russell. The play worked despite its mawkish sentimentality, because the centra…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
• To whichever collaborator came up with that line—be it either Jerome Lawrence or Robert E. Lee, who were adapting their own hit play—credit is due. They showed us in this short exchange that Mame certainly had her chances to marry; she simply chose to retain her independence. For a woman living in the twenties, this was quite daring.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
• Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, who had written Inherit the Wind and Auntie Mame, were chosen to do the adaptation. Prince had wanted to call the play An Adventure and hoped, along with the writers, that it would not be a cartoon-like view of Moscow filled with gloomy Czarists or comic Communists. When they began shaping the play, the…ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt
• Perhaps inspired by the political activism of the 1960s, Herman and Manic librettists Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee also saw the story as a parable about the need to protect the environment. Lansbury got to sing another anthem of hope, "Tomorrow Morning," and a beautiful ballad, "Kiss Her Now," urging a young man not to let the love o…ebooks/Viagas, Robert/I'm the Greatest Star_ Broadway's Top Musical Legends from 1900 to Today - Robert Viagas.txt
• Mame, Herman’s second huge hit of the mid-1960s, was directed by Gene Saks, with a book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, based on their play, Auntie Mame, which was based on Patrick Dennis’s novel of the same name. In the introduction to the script, Lawrence and Lee defend their musical’s celebration of life and the necessity for a c…ebooks/Wolf, Stacy/Changed for Good_A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical - Stacy Wolf.txt
• 79. Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee, and Jerry Herman, Mame (New York: Random House, 1967), v-vi.ebooks/Wolf, Stacy/Changed for Good_A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical - Stacy Wolf.txt

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