Word: gorney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Touch and Go (sketches and lyrics by Jean & Walter Kerr; music by Jay Gorney; produced by George Abbott) is that never too common object, a lively topical revue. It has a nice sassy way of cutting up-once or twice, even, into murderously small pieces. But it can be genuinely funny as well as sassy, and it disdains rented jokes and reupholstered sketches. Campus bred,* the show has much more pertness than polish; it tends to slouch around with its socks hanging down, and it has the amateur's faith in the pen to the exclusion of the blue...
Heaven on Earth (music by Jay Gorney; book & lyrics by Barry Trivers; produced by Monte Proser in association with Ned C. Litwack) is the old-fashioned musical about two young things who cannot get married because they cannot find a place to live. In fact, the young man's bachelor quarters are a treetop in Central Park-the first intimation that Heaven on Earth aims to be as cute as all hell. It gets colossally so when a roguish, broguish cabbie named James Aloysius McCarthy (Peter Lind Hayes) sets up as fairy godfather to the lovers. Slow-paced...
Gerstley, L., III; Golden, J. S.; Gorney, M. P.; Grosberg, L. H.; Grimes, F. E.; Gutstein...
...lips over a pleasant, tuneful, mildly pinko revue called Meet the People that eventually made its way to Broadway. Last week's show, entitled They Can't Get You Down, was confected by the same trio that put Meet the People together (Henry Myers, Edward Eliscu, Jay Gorney) and dished up by Jack Kirkland and Dwight Deere Wiman, who spent some $25,000 on its production...