Also credited on5 works
Les Miserables
Follies Of 1907
42nd Street
The King and I
Oklahoma!
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 detail, the librettist may choose to replace a book-oriented song with an emotionally oriented one. Tom Jones did just that in the second act of The Fantasticks. ‘Where “They Were You” is now, we had a song called “I Have Acted Like a Fool”, which was very dramatic, but didn’t give you much emotionally. We felt a simple touching moment…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- Universities’ liberal arts departments can be wonderful spawning grounds. Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt who wrote the book, lyrics and music for The Fantasticks began writing together in college. There are theatre groups in every university in Britain and the United States.ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- I don’t mean to imply by the foregoing, that every book musical needs a subplot. The concept musical will work very well without it. The Fantasticks, Company, A Chorus Line, Pacific Overtures, Sunday in the Park With George have no need of any intrusion to divert the audience from their stories. And musicals based on a single protagonist…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- But the turning point is not always so obvious. Sometimes it may even be achieved by a happy accident. Harvey Schmidt, composer of The Fantasticks remembers that when they had cast Jerry Orbach as El Gallo (his first role), ‘we took what had been a rape speech in the Barnard [Colombia University] production (because he was so marvellous w…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- Tom Jones, lyricist of The Fantasticks, has said he is not afraid of hard work. ‘You love [a song] if it comes out perfect the first time, but I am very suspicious of depending upon a thing coming out the first time. I feel better about the ability to go back and work again and work again without losing the shape of the piece.’ Even Jerry…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- The power of the opening night in America is perhaps best illustrated by what happened to librettist-lyricist Tom Jones on the night of May 3rd, 1960 when The Fantasticks made its debut. (By far the longest running show in off-Broadway history, The Fantasticks has an enviable and phenomenal record. It is still visible in Greenwich Village…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
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