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- 36 Stephen Schwartz, composer-lyricist of Godspell, Pippin, The Magic Show cautions that completed music can imprison the lyricist. ‘I always get as much of the lyric idea down as possible. I think music is much easier than lyrics, because lyrics are craft, and music is a sort of emotional response to a situation or a particular feeling.…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- Aside from Doug Henning, a magician who was given nothing to sing in The Magic Show, no leading man in a Broadway book musical has ever been asked to sing as little as Brynner did in The King and I. “A Puzzlement” lasts just a little longer than three minutes. After that, the King sings precious little.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- Stephen Schwartz In 1976, Schwartz had three long-run musicals on Broadway: Pippin , The Magic Show , and Godspell . After three flops, he came up withebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- Pippin, which debuted on Broadway in 1972, was another smash. Ditto The Magic Show in 1974. For almost one solid year—June 17, 1976, to June 12, 1977—Stephen Schwartz had three shows on Broadway. He could have had a fourth, too, had David Merrick brought in The Baker’s Wife instead of closing it in Washington after an anguished six-month…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- The fact that the program credit, “MAGIC BY DOUG HENNING,” was on the same line and in the same size letters as that of the songwriter and the librettist indicates the importance of Henning’s contribution. For The Magic Show was little more than a sleight-of-hand show accompanied by a slight-of-substance plot — something about an ambitiou…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- Expert magician Doug Henning had made his Broadway debut in The Magic Show, which ran over four years. Henning got by in that one by playing himself, but he was not up to the real role he attempted a few years later in Merlin (Mark Hellinger; Feb. 13, ’83; 199), our third example of classier camp. Elmer Bernstein, who had one previous flo…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
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