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...Arthur and the Round Table), Carnival! (a Broadway version of the film Lili), and Irma La Douce (Parisian underworld). From the Pleistocene epoch: Fiorello!, a musical replanting of New York's Little Flower; The Sound of Music, the last and most sentimental work of Rodgers & Hammerstein; and, of course, My Fair Lady, by George Lerner and Bernard Loewe...
Dead Centers. Of the collection's first play. The Farmer's Hotel (which also appeared as a short novel), the author says that Rodgers and Hammerstein might have liked it, but Joshua Logan nixed the project. Logan must have been wrong, suggests O'Hara, because a stock-company production of the play moved the Fishkill, N.Y., Rotary Club to laugh, cry and call for the author. Later, "a prominent playwright" became interested, "but he wanted to rewrite the play and I did not want to reveal to him that it is an allegory, very tightly written...
...musicals Camelot (Arthur and the Round Table), Carnival! (a Broadway version of the film Lili), and Irma La Douce (Parisian underworld). From the Pleistocene epoch: Fiorello!, a musical replanting of New York's Little Flower; The Sound of Music, the last and most sentimental work of Rodgers & Hammerstein; and, of course, My Fair Lady, by George Lerner and Bernard Loewe...
...Phil Silvers, but book and music combine to make this a lot less entertaining than Bilko reruns. Donnybrook!, another one of those hopeful musicals that believe in the magic of the exclamation point, is a corny mixture of Irish sass and sentiment. As for Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, it is so sweet it hurts, but it does have Mary Martin...
...inspired help of Nancy Walker, book and music combine to make this a lot less entertaining than Bilko reruns. Donnybrook!, another one of those hopeful musicals that believe in the magic of the exclamation point is a corny mixture of Irish sass and sentiment. As for Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music, it is so sweet it hurts, but it does have Mary Martin...