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Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre for both the stage and on film. He won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards,...
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Paint Your Wagon
Paint Your Wagon is a 1951 Broadway musical comedy, with book and lyrics by Alan J. Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, set in a mining camp in Gold Rush-era California.
The musical opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre on November 12, 1951,...
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Brigadoon
Brigadoon is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. Songs from the musical, such as "Almost Like Being in Love" have become standards.
It tells the story of a mysterious Scottish village that appears for...
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Camelot
Camelot is a musical by Alan Jay Lerner (book and lyrics) and Frederic Loewe (music). It is based on the King Arthur legend as adapted from the T. H. White tetralogy novel The Once and Future King.
The original 1960 production, directed by Moss Hart...
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Love Life
Love Life was a musical written by Kurt Weill (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (book and lyrics). It opened at the 46th Street Theatre (now the Richard Rodgers) on October 7, 1948 and closed on May 14, 1949 after having played 252 performances. The...
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Coco
Coco is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by André Previn. It starred Katharine Hepburn in her only stage musical.
Theatre producer Frederick Brisson originally had optioned Chanel's life for his wife Rosalind Russell,...
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Lolita, My Love
Lolita, My Love was an unsuccessful musical by John Barry and Alan Jay Lerner, based on Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita. It closed in Boston in 1971 while on a tour prior to Broadway.
Lolita, My Love was initiated by Lerner, the well-known lyricist...
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What's Up?
What's Up? is a musical with a book by Alan Jay Lerner and Arthur Pierson, lyrics by Lerner, and music by Frederick Loewe.
Directed and choreographed by George Balanchine, the Broadway production opened on November 11, 1943 at the National Theatre,...
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The Day Before Spring
The Day Before Spring is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.
The plot concerns a married woman who, at a college reunion, meets the man with whom she almost eloped ten years before. Romantically stirred...
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Dance a Little Closer
Dance a Little Closer is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Charles Strouse.
An updated version of Robert E. Sherwood's 1936 antiwar comedy Idiot's Delight, it's set on New Year's Eve "in the avoidable future" in the...
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Carmelina
Carmelina is a musical with a book by Joseph Stein and Alan Jay Lerner, lyrics by Lerner, and music by Burton Lane.
Based on the 1968 film Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (which also inspired the book for Mamma Mia!), it focuses on an Italian woman who...
Gigi
Gigi is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. It is based on a novel and 1958 hit musical film of the same name. The story concerns Gigi, a wild teenaged girl living in Paris at the turn of the 20th...
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The Street Where I Live
The Street Where I Live is a non-fiction work by Alan Jay Lerner.
In it, he describes the genesis of three of his most famous musicals "Gigi", "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot". It is auto-biographical, but not strictly speaking an autobiography as he...
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A hymn to him
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My Fair Lady
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