Word: librettists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carousel (music by Richard Rodgers; book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; produced by the Theatre Guild). All Oklahoma's horses and all Oklahoma's men have put another charmer together again. But Oklahoma's and Carousel's Composer Rodgers, Librettist Hammerstein, Choreographer Agnes de Mille, Director Rouben Mamoulian, Costume Designer Miles White have not repeated themselves. Carousel strays pretty far from Oklahoma!, just as it shies completely away from Broadway. A reworking of Ferenc Molnar's Liliom, it is not a musicomedy but a lovely and appealing "musical play...
Smith and De Koven." But Robin Hood's success mounted so fast that The Bostonians alone gave it 4,250 performances, and netted De Koven and his librettist over a million dollars...
...continued studying the piano. Then he toured Europe, Central and South America as a concert pianist. He has since made equally wide but more informal tours with a rumba outfit called Lecuona's Cuban Boys, has also written 30 musical comedies, most of them in collaboration with Cuban Librettist Gustavo Galarraga...
Died. Lucien Boyer, 66, Paris music-hall singer, songwriter, librettist, entrepreneur; in Paris. He popularized MadeIon in World War I, wrote for Mistinguette and Maurice Chevalier, founded Montmartre's famed Chat Noir cabaret. As Montmartre's Ambassador Eccentric & Extraordinary, he was once delegated to present his credentials to President Harding, but never made the trip...
Paul Bunyan, gigantic, legendary Northwest logger, might well make music surge in some great U.S. symphony. Last week he was the hero-although he never appeared onstage-of an anemic operetta put up by two British expatriates. The librettist of the operetta, corn-shocky Poet Wystan Hugh Auden, excused himself for muscling in on U.S. mythology by declaring that Bunyan is a universal figure...