Also credited on5 works
110 in the Shade
Hold Everything!
Hooray For What!
Take A Chance
Ziegfeld Follies
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In the literature8 passages
- The Golden Apple is one of the greatest works of the American musical theatre. Its richly melodic and playful score is virtually unequaled in the annals of theatre music, and in the 1950s was rivaled only by Candide in terms of lyrical and musical inventiveness.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award (1953–1954): Best Musical (The Golden Apple )ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- But she did well in two other musicals. Although The Golden Apple (1954) wasn’t a financial success, it’s one of the artistic highpoints of American musical theatre. It won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Musical (of 1953–1954), left behind a cast album and a popular standard in “Lazy Afternoon” (which Ballard introduced…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Al Capp’s comic strip Li’l Abner was turned into one of the best musicals of the 1950s. The show wasn’t innovative like The Golden Apple , and it certainly wasn’t “classic” in the My Fair Lady sense. It was simply a good old-fashioned slam-bang musical comedy that perfectly captured the skewed world of the hillbillies in Dogpatch, Arkansa…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- The evening had originated as a short one-act musical titled The Princess and the Pea at Tamiment Playhouse in Tamiment, Pennsylvania, an adult summer camp located in the Poconos, a resort not unlike the vacation spot depicted in Wish You Were Here . From there, Mattress expanded into a full-length two-act musical that opened Off-Broadway…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- In 1954 at the Phoenix Theatre on Second Avenue, known for their sterling productions of classical plays, T. Edward Hambleton and Norris Houghton presented The Golden Apple, an Americanized retelling of The Odyssey with lyrics by John Latouche and music by Jerome Moross. It received rave reviews and became the first production to move fro…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
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