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- During the tryout, unspecified songs were credited to Dean Fuller and David Craig, and unspecified sketches to Samuel Taylor and Russell Beggs. The sketch “Operation Cumulus” by Lee Goodman and Jimmy Kirkwood was dropped, but reinstated during the Broadway run when it replaced “The Board Meeting” (which Barnes described as “tasteless” in…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- But after Hammerstein died in 1960, Rodgers showed he was in no hurry to make Sondheim his partner. Instead, he worked with bookwriter Samuel Taylor on an original musical called No Strings. It was a 1962 hit—not a smash, true, but a hit in the era when 580 performances was a nice run and everybody made money.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- In the meantime, Merrick had won long-sought rights to a musical version of The Happy Time , Samuel Taylor’s 1950 play based on stories by Robert Fontaine. 5 Produced by Rodgers and Hammerstein and featuring Johnny Stewart, Kurt Kasznar, and Eva Gabor, it ran 614 performances at the Plymouth Theatre before becoming a successful motion pic…ebooks/Gilvey, John Anthony/Before the Parade Passes By_ Gower Champion and the Glorious American Musical - John Anthony Gilvey.txt
- A gentle, nostalgic look at a French-Canadian family, The Happy Time was adapted from the novel by Robert Fontaine and the play by Samuel Taylor. The story is primarily concerned with the coming of age of Bibi Bonnard (Mike Rupert) and his desire to see the world with his Uncle Jacques (Robert Goulet), a footloose magazine photographer wh…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- Book: N. Richard Nash (Based on the Play by Samuel Taylor, From the Novels of Robert Fontaineebooks/Kissel, Howard/David Merrick - The Abominable Showman_ The Unauthorized Biography (Applause Books) - Howard Kissel.txt
- Meanwhile, David Merrick, as usual, was searching for material to produce. He had hit on the idea of transforming Samuel Taylor’s intimate French Canadian play The Happy Time (1950) into a musical. The original, based on short stories by Robert L. Fontaine, had starred Patrick Magee and Maureen O’Sullivan. At first Merrick had wanted Cy C…ebooks/test/test - test.txt
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