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Will Glickman

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Book Writer 1910–1983

Will Glickman (March 7, 1910 – March 11, 1983) was an American playwright who frequently collaborated with Joseph Stein. Glickman made his Broadway debut in 1948 with sketches he and Stein wrote for the revue Lend an Ear. The two went on to collaborate on Mrs. Gibbons' Boys (1949), Alive and Kicking (1950), Mr. Wonderful (1956), The Body Beautiful (1958), and Plain and Fancy (1955), which proved to be their biggest success, garnering a Tony nomination for Best Musical. Glickman's television credits include adaptations of The Desert Song and The Chocolate Soldier. He also wrote scripts for The DuPont Show of the Month and The United States Steel Hour, and collaborated with Fred Saidy and Neil…

Also credited on6 works

Alive and Kicking
Lend An Ear
Plain And Fancy
The Body Beautiful
The Chocolate Soldier
The Desert Song

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In the literature8 passages

  • Sketches : Ray Golden, I.A.L. Diamond, Henry Morgan, Jerome Chodorov, Joseph Stein, Will Glickman, and Mike Stuart (Michael Stewart)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Sketches : Goodman Ace, Arnold Auerbach, Selma Diamond, Will Glickman, Ronny Graham, Mort Green, George Foster, Arnold B. Horwitt, Coleman Jacoby, James McCall, Stanley Prager, Elliott Reid, David Rogers, Arnie Rosen, and Joseph Steinebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • The Body Beautiful . Book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman. Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. New York: Samuel French, 1957.ebooks/Lambert, Philip/B00590X4L8 EBOK - Philip Lambert.txt
  • Mr. Wonderful . Book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman. Music and lyrics by Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener, and George Weiss. New York: Hart Stenographic Bureau, 1956.ebooks/Lambert, Philip/B00590X4L8 EBOK - Philip Lambert.txt
  • That's a clue to why Plain and Fancy's authors, composer Albert Hague, lyricist Arnold B. Horwitt, and librettists Joseph Stein and Will Glickman, thought "You Can't Miss It" important. A riot of color and noise, it plays as daffy, fragmented, eccentric. Scene Two begins in the evening twilight as a buggy pulls up at center stage, an Amis…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/B0035RP5R8 EBOK - Ethan Mordden.txt
  • Still, it's a terrible show, witless and plodding. The book, by Plain and Fancy's Joseph Stein and Will Glickman, never catches fire, and the score is notable only in that it marked the first collaboration of Jerry Bock (one of Mr. Wonderful's authors) and Sheldon Harnick (who had been contributing to revues). Yet Hal Prince heard enough…ebooks/Mordden, Ethan/B0035RP5R8 EBOK - Ethan Mordden.txt

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