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...Forrest Gump"), who spent nearly a year composing a screenplay in rhyme. "Seussical," the $10 million musical pastiche of several Seuss stories narrated by Seuss's Cat, has also had its share of bumps on the way to Broadway. Key members of the creative team have been replaced, while lyricist Lynn Ahrens, who wrote "Ragtime" with her partner Stephen Flaherty, has faced the challenge of simulating Seuss's inimitable poetry - "trying to keep the gist of that," Ahrens says, "while trying to find different rhythms so there can be variety in the score...
They once owned a pub in Santa Monica, they're exclusively sponsored by Murphy's Irish Stout, their self-proclaimed "rabid" fan base includes the likes of Rosie O'Donnell, Michael Keaton and Dan Akroyd, but Bernie Taupin (Elton John's lyricist) nailed the coolest thing about the Young Dubliners when he said simply, "They kick...
DIED. CARL SIGMAN, 91, Brooklyn-born composer-lyricist whose eminently hummable tunes were recorded by the likes of Guy Lombardo (Enjoy Yourself) and Billie Holiday (Crazy, He Calls Me); in Manhasset, N.Y. Most active in the '40s and '50s, he wrote everything from Frank Sinatra ballads (What Now My Love) to TV theme songs ("Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen"). His last major hit was the theme for Love Story (Where Do I Begin?), a sentimental coda to a remarkable career...
Hours after escaping the wreck of the Andrea Doria, 22-year-old composer Mike Stoller peered from the deck of a rescue ship as it entered New York harbor to see his lyricist partner Jerry Leiber, also 22, lounging on the pier, holding an Italian silk suit--in case Mike needed dry clothes. "We have a hit!" Leiber cried. "Hound Dog...recorded by some kid named Elvis...
...this is a sloppy job, both in little goofs (lyricist Dorothy Fields' name is misspelled in the opening credits; one character reads a letter, and the same text she is "reading" is visible on the other side) and in the cast's gung-ho amateurism. It's like Shakespeare done by the Fame kids. Even such old pros as Nathan Lane and Timothy Spall are made to perform their face-contorting comedy so close to the camera that mugging becomes assault...