Also credited on1 work
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In the literature8 passages
- As you know, I am devastated and shocked … as, no doubt, you were by Mr. Brooks Atkinson's and Mr. Walter Kerr's review of the show. 43ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
- For these critics, a Janus-faced musical was a sin in need of public censure. Walter Kerr’s remarks in the New York Herald Tribune embody this distaste for works that combine traditional Broadway elements with features associated with European opera: “Still, there’s a little something wrong with ‘Most Happy Fella’—maybe more than a little…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
- 2 . Walter Kerr, “‘My Fair Lady,’” New York Herald Tribune , March 16, 1956; quoted in Steven Suskin, Opening Night on Broadway , 470–71 (quotation on 470); reprinted in New York Theatre Critics’ Reviews , vol. 17, 346.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
- 4 . Walter Kerr, “‘West Side Story,’” New York Herald Tribune , September 27, 1957; quoted in Suskin, Opening Night on Broadway , 695–96 (quotations on 696); reprinted in New York Theatre Critics’ Reviews , vol. 18, 253.ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
- Collectively or individually, even the most knowledgeable critics can be wrong, 222 cruel or both. The above mentioned Walter Kerr writing of Fiddler on the Roof said ‘Too bad. Near Miss.’ And according to Sheldon Harnick the New York Times critic said, ‘Oh, what a show this could have been if they had gotten Ernest Bloch or Leonard Berns…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- Walter Kerr in the New York Herald Tribune said the musical’s creators “had forgotten to put in the fun” and seemed more obsessed with “authenticity” than “joy.” He also provided an example of the book’s “labored” humor: when a miner says he’s “destitute,” a bordello girl appears and asks who called her.ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
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What this page does not know
- What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
- Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
- Which of the credits above the roles on this record — lyricist, book writer, director — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.