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...Business Without Really Trying; in New York City. Known during the musical's golden age as the creative half of "The King and Cy," Feuer oversaw every detail of his shows, sometimes taking the director's seat. Famously tough?he feuded with George S. Kaufman, Bob Fosse and Frank Loesser?he discovered Julie Andrews, whose career he launched with 1954's The Boy Friend, and helped turn I Love Paris and C'est Magnifique?from Cole Porter's critically panned hit show Can-Can?into standards...
...Business Without Really Trying; in New York City. Known during the musical's golden age as the creative half of "the King and Cy," Feuer oversaw every detail of his shows, sometimes taking the director's seat. Famously tough--he feuded with George S. Kaufman, Bob Fosse and Frank Loesser--he discovered Julie Andrews, whose career he launched with 1954's The Boy Friend, and helped turn I Love Paris and C'est Magnifique--from Cole Porter's critically panned hit show Can-Can-- into standards...
...Well, not always. Some topics don?t make readers hit the byline button. I?ve written a dozen or so columns on Broadway musicals without getting a single e-mail. (Which won?t stop me from doing a Frank Loesser tribute one of these weeks.) Sometimes, though, I get bundles. The record-holder for TOF is the series I wrote last summer on Bollywood films. That spurred 150-200 e-mails, most of them long, knowledgeable and helpful to a passionate amateur in a huge field...
...from the flu; in New York City. Though he periodically left the theater--for a year at Yale Law School (at age 49) and a stint as a chef's apprentice--he always returned to the stage, helming such acclaimed Lincoln Center productions as the 1992 revival of Frank Loesser's musical The Most Happy Fella, a Tony-winning 1996 production of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance and last season's spiffy revival of Dinner at Eight...
...Crosby's version was #1 on both the pop list - for 10 weeks (beginning in September!) - and the R&B. (The runner-up hit for many of those weeks was Frank Loesser?s more belligerent "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition.") "White Christmas" also connected with World War II GI's in their first winter away from home. To them it voiced the ache of separation and the wistfulness they felt for the girl back home, for the innocence of youth and for a past - perhaps a future - without war. "Way down under this latest hit of his," said...