Word: lyricists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...estate of Lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, probated five years after his death, was valued at $7,127,161.65, bequeathed mostly to his widow, Dorothy, and their three children. It included a portfolio of 43 stocks and bonds, ranging from 104 shares of IBM to 100 of Du Pont, and "interests in musical and literary properties," meaning copyrights to lyrics from Rose Marie (1924) to The Sound of Music (1959), estimated...
...original, and his rendition of Born to Be Blue is the best since the late Mildred Bailey made it her own. While the California Suite is billed as Torme's "major composition" on this album, it is memorable chiefly as the sort of thing in which Lyricist Torme rhymes La Jolla with "annoy you." But the songs -wistful, full of tender despair-make Side 2 worth the price...
Audrey Hepburn's Oscar-winning movie Roman Holiday will be revisited by Playwright Robert Anderson, who wrote Tea and Sympathy, Composer-Lyricist Richard Adler (Damn Yankees) and Director Joe Layton (No Strings). A Katharine Hepburn movie, Summertime, which was adapted from a Shirley Booth play, The Time of the Cuckoo, is being re-adapted for the theater by Richard Rodgers and his new collaborator, Stephen Sondheim, the lyricist for Gypsy and West Side Story. Another Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance play will be the musical of Clifford Odets' durable Golden Boy, which opened in 1937, became a movie...
Mount Morris Park in Harlem is ugly, steep and dangerous, but it lies in a part of the city that Composer Richard Rodgers, 62, knows well. He grew up there when it was still a middle-class neighborhood, went sledding in the park, near it met Lyricist Larry Hart. Now, doing his bit to turn Manhattan once again into an isle of joy, he plans to build and give to the city a 2,000-seat amphitheater for musicals, dancing, skating and concerts. It will be built in Mount Morris Park, explains Rodgers, because...
...night that My Fair Lady opened, Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner waited nervously in the 21 Club for news of the critics' reactions. The telephone rang at last. Lerner listened silently for several minutes, then turned to Composer Fritz Loewe and said softly: "The iceman cometh...