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Died. Oscar Hammerstein II, 65, longtime lyricist laureate of Broadway: of cancer; in Doylestown, Pa. (see SHOW BUSINESS...
...attempt to recreate the box-office wonder of My Fair Lady, T. H. White's Arthurian novel The Once and Future King is being stage' tooled as Camelot. As with Fair Lady, Frederick Loewe is the composer, Alan Jay Lerner the book adapter and lyricist, Moss Hart the director, Julie Andrews one of the stars (Nov. 17). Irma la Douce, still running in Paris (nearly four years) and London (two years), and by far the most successful modern European musical, comes to Broadway still flavored with Parisian argot as it pursues the light, fantastic tale of a Paris...
Died. Al Hoffman, 57, top Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist, a Russian-born onetime Seattle bandleader ("I was the world's worst drummer"), who minted-with various collaborators-Mairzy Doats, Heartaches, If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked a Cake, Takes Two to Tango, and Papa Loves Mambo; after long illness; in Manhattan...
Uneasy Virtue. Now married to Italian Director-Producer Mario Lanfranchi (who originally signed her for Butterfly), Diva Moffo lives in an apartment in Milan, collects jazz records as an antidote to a steady opera diet. With her husband as lyricist, she writes pop songs, one of which, Citta, became an instant hit when she sang it on Italian TV ("Always, my city Your aroma is like a garden without flowers Like a tear...
...since Hollywood Lyricist Howard Dietz wrote a new English libretto for La Boheme six years ago (Love, rhymed Dietz, "is a feast for a Roman/ It's warming my abdomen") had a Metropolitan Opera production created such a fuss. "Among the finest productions in Bing's regime," wrote Miles Kastendiek in the New York Journal-American. "Non-Mozartean shenanigans," snorted Howard Taubman in the Times, while the Herald Tribune's Paul Henry Lang denounced it as "a travesty." Occasion: a new production, staged by Broadway's Cyril Ritchard, of Mozart's comic masterpiece, The Marriage...