Also credited on8 works
Flying High
Funny Face
Good News!
George White’s Scandals
Rose-Marie
I Married an Angel
Oh, Lady! Lady!
Pal Joey
These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.
In the literature8 passages
- In The Desert Song (1926; originally called My Fair Lady) Margot and The Red Shadow are the leads. Ben, a society correspondent, and Susan, ward of General Birabeau, form the subplot. Margot is the general's guest, and The Red Shadow (actually Pierre) is the general's son.ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- From The Desert Song (1926), Book and lyrics by Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Frank Mandelebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- Songs: “The Riff Song”; “Romance”; “French Military Marching Song”; “I Want a Kiss”; “It’” “The Desert Song”; “Let Love Go”; “One Flower Grows Alone in Your Garden”; “One Alone”ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- Possibly the decade’s most enduring operetta, The Desert Song marked Sigmund Romberg’s first association with librettists-lyricists Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II (Romberg and Hammerstein would do four other musicals together). Though a swashbuckling romance created along familiar lines, the work was equally inspired by such recent…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- Celebrated for his lush scores for operettas in exotic locales (The Desert Song, The New Moon), Sigmund Romberg joined with lyricist Dorothy Fields to recapture the vintage Currier and Ives charms found up in New York’s Central Park in the 1870s. The story, a combination of fact and fiction, deals with the efforts of John Matthews (Wilbur…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- Sigmund Romberg got me into the habit of working hard. In our first collaboration, The Desert Song, I used to visit him in an apartment which he had in the Hotel Marie Antoinette in the Sixties on Broadway. I remember one day bringing up a finished lyric to him. He played it over and said, “It fits.” Then he turned to me and asked me, “Wh…ebooks/Hammerstein, Oscar/Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II - Oscar Hammerstein.txt
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