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Lerner and Loewe: Brigadoon
Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner wrote several musicals, but they are best known for their highly successful play, "My Fair Lady." Lerner and Loewe are the only composing team that wrote the scores for two movie musicals that won the Academy Award for Best Picture - "Gigi" in 1958 and "My Fair Lady" in 1964. [read more...]
Lerner and Loewe: Paint Your Wagon
Four years after their success with "Brigadoon," Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe created the musical "Paint Your Wagon." Although the score included some good songs, the play was not too successful, running for only 289 performances on Broadway. The choreography for the Broadway version of "Paint Your Wagon" was developed by Agnes de Mille. [read more...]
Lerner and Loewe: My Fair Lady
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's "My Fair Lady" is one of only two Tony winning Best Musicals to also become an Academy Award winning Best Picture. The play ran on Broadway for six and a half years and it has had three Broadway revivals since it ended its first run in 1962. Both the book of the play and the screenplay were written by Alan Jay Lerner. [read more...]
Lerner and Loewe: Camelot
In 1960, after the enormous success of "My Fair Lady," the Lerner and Loewe musical "Camelot" opened on Broadway. The play, based on the T.H. White book, "The Once and Future King," about the legendary King Arthur and his kingdom of Camelot, had a long history before making its way to Broadway. Tryouts started in Toronto and the original play was so long that evening performances ended long after most people's bedtime. It was cut by an hour and a half before it went to Boston and additional numbers were cut prior to the Broadway opening. [read more...]
Lerner and Loewe: Gigi
One of my favorite movie musicals, "Gigi," was turned into a Broadway musical in 1973, but, like "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," it was a flop. But this was not Gigi's first appearance on Broadway. The movie musical was actually based on a non-musical Broadway play from 1951 that starred Audrey Hepburn. All three versions were based on the 1945 novel by Colette. [read more...]