Word: librettist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Julie, in short, is something else-in Hollywood, but not with it. Unencumbered by the cotton-candy fantasy life in which most stars invariably shroud themselves, she has stayed resolutely honest and unspoiled. She is an actress, as Librettist Alan Jay Lerner once remarked, who achieved stardom "with nothing to offer but talent, industry and an uncorrupted heart...
...famous cinema trilogy-Marius, Fanny, Cesar. And then Merrick spent three months nailing down the subsidiary rights and three months persuading Josh Logan to go see Pagnol's pictures and three months marking time until he was ready to direct the show and six months working with the librettist and the songwriter and three months signing up Ezio Pinza and Walter Slezak and two months building the supporting cast and two months wrangling with the Shuberts about a theater and three months working up an advertising campaign and two months in rehearsal and two months on the road...
...about the 55th time, Librettist Alan Jay Lerner settled back to watch On a Clear Day You Can See Forever at Manhattan's Mark Hellinger Theater. This time he brought along a fair lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, and afterward, as the cast applauded her backstage, Jackie smiled: "Oh, Alan, I haven't seen anything I loved that much in years." Lerner hadn't gotten that big a rave in the seven weeks since the show opened, so he took the lady over to El Morocco and bought her a glass of champagne...
...more copyright problems, another misfire. Deciding that "you can't write opera unless it's you," he hit on Strindberg's play Miss Julie, whose morbid Freudian thickets "fitted me; I am fascinated with death." The Scandinavian setting, too, suited his Norwegian heritage, but he and Librettist Kenward Elmslie figured that the drama might have more impact if transformed into a love tragedy involving a Deep South heiress and her Negro servant. Timely and all that. Off to New Orleans they went to soak up some local color, only to belatedly discover that it "just wouldn...
...mock Sennett musical called Drat! The Cat! Then some of those cool New York cats-the critics-spoiled the party. They decided that, while Elliott was charming enough as a simple-souled cop who falls in love with a cat burglaress, they weren't so charmed by Librettist Ira Levin's pratfalling plot. As Mrs. Gould commiserated with her husband, the producers closed the play after...