Word: lyricist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frontier of the American musical theater is wherever Harold Prince and Stephen Sondheim are. Last season, the producer-director and composer-lyricist collaborated on Company, which focused a diamond-cutting laser beam on marriage, Manhattan-style. With Follies, Prince and Sondheim, together with Choreographer and Co-Director Michael Bennett, have audaciously staked out some unknown territory. They have put together the first Proustian musical-an act of dramatic creation even more daring than making a Proustian film (see CINEMA...
...also has a house lyricist, Garry Wells, a sometime Laugh-In writer, who crafts promotion slogans and monthly gag tapes taken by many stations. Usually identifying themselves as "The Fun One" in their towns, these subscribers broadcast intermittent programming spoofs ("Notre Dame 20, William and Mary 6 each") and sappy little one-liners ("I know my wife is trying to poison me−she wants me to eat at home...
Died. Agustin Lara, 70, Mexico's foremost composer and lyricist; of heart and lung disease; in Mexico City. Because he could not write music, someone would stand by the piano as he played and jot down the scores of his tunes, including You Belong to My Heart, Granada and Madrid...
Divorced. By Andre Previn, 41, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, Broadway (Coco) composer, and father of Mia Farrow's twin sons: Dory Previn, 44, lyricist who recently recorded Beware of Young Girls in lament of Andre's departure: after ten years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles. Previn and Mia are presently in the wilds of Scotland, where, he says, they will be married, presumably as soon as he has signed the divorce papers and returned them to Los Angeles...
...himself speaks of a "certain indefinable something" that he and Newman have in common. But it is really where they differ that tells the most. One of the many ironies about Newman is that, although he sings in a raspy, soul-based blues style, his chief concern as a lyricist is Middle America. In Love Story, which he sang on NBC's Liza Minnelli Special last week, Newman sums up middle-age with painful accuracy: "Some nights we'll go out dancin'/ If I am not too tired/ And some nights we'll sit romancin...