Also credited on2 works
Breakfast At Tiffany’s
House of Flowers
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In the literature8 passages
- Based on Truman Capote’s short story of the same name, House of Flowers dealt with two competing bordellos, one run by Madame Fleur (Pearl Bailey), whose girls are named after flowers, and one by Madame Tango (Juanita Hall), whose girls are called the Tango Belles. Madame Fleur is saving the sweet and virginal Ottile/Violet (Diahann Carro…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- The Grass Harp by Truman Capote (Martin Beck Theatre, March 27, 1952, 36 performances)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
- Subplot. To Skyscraper and Her First Roman, which had none, can be added Billy (Billy Budd by Herman Melville), House of Flowers (Truman Capote, an original), Coco (based on the life of Coco Chanel. Yes, I know there is a young couple, but they have no plot and are made of tissue paper, I Can Get It forYou Wholesale (based on Jerome Weidm…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- To go back to House of Flowers, to which Engel devotes considerable space, it was the work of a relative neophyte, Truman Capote, a bestselling author, to be sure, but one whose previous play, The Grass Harp, had flopped a few years earlier. This financial failure, however, didn't deter the producer Arnold Saint Subber from per suading hi…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- GEOFFREY HOLDER: My first Broadway show, House of Flowers , opened in 1954. Book and lyrics by Truman Capote, music by Harold Arlen, company of great stars, like Juanita Hall, Pearl Bailey, Diahann Carroll, dancers like Arthur Mitchell, Louis Johnson, Donna McHale, Claude Thompson. Peter Brook was the director.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
- The genesis of House of Flowers occurred in 1948 when Truman Capote was visiting Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where he enjoyed frequenting the lively local bordellos. He first wrote a short story about one such establishment, then turned it into the libretto for a Broadway musical. Producer Saint Subber brought in Harold Arlen who also shared l…ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
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