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When acclaimed composer and lyricist Larry C. O’Keefe ’91 first donned a chiffon dress and heels in 1988, he knew he had found his niche at Harvard...
DIED. ADOLPH GREEN, 86, lyricist, writer and actor who formed, with Betty Comden, left, Broadway's most enduring creative duo; in New York City. Born in the Bronx, he first teamed with Comden (the two were not married to each other) in a Greenwich Village satirical revue. Leonard Bernstein (Green's old summer-camp buddy) asked them to write the book and lyrics for On the Town, a Broadway musical about sailors on leave in New York City that became their first hit. They later brought sophistication and wit to such shows as Wonderful Town, Bells Are Ringing and, most...
...DIED. ADOLPH GREEN, 87, lyricist, librettist, playwright and performer who co-wrote hit Broadway musicals such as On the Town and the screenplay for Singin' in the Rain during a 60-year partnership with Betty Comden; in Manhattan. The couple was artistically inseparable and gave postwar America its most memorable Manhattan geography lesson?"The Bronx is up and the Battery down"?in the lyrics to New York, New York (A Hell of a Town...
...Marc Shaiman, the show's composer (and lyricist, with his partner Scott Wittman), built an exceptional body of work as arranger of pop standards for Bette Midler. He also collaborated with Trey Parker on the settings for the wonderfully knowledgeable songs in "South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut." "Hairspray" is his first "original" score. I'm sorry I have to put quote marks around the adjectives modifying his work here, but the score is not a general evocation of first-decade rock 'n roll, as "Grease" so famously was and "The Rocky Horror Show" so brilliantly. Almost all the Shaiman...
Named for the lyricist from the Rogers and Hammerstein duo, this prestigious award also came with a $100,000 prize, which Cadiff used to produce the show...