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...With a book by director George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, music by George Gershwin and lyrics by his brother Ira, Of Thee I Sing opened Dec. 26, 1931, with George conducting the orchestra, and ran for 441 performances. It would be the Gershwin's biggest hit, and the first musical to win a Pulitzer Prize for drama. The award went to Kaufman, Ryskind and Ira Gershwin for supplying the words; George, who supplied the immortal music, was not eligible. (The decision chafed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Musicals Like New | 5/12/2006 | See Source »

...According to Gershwin biographer Edward Jablonski, Kaufman and Ryskind wrote the whole first act in 16 days. Seeing the show today, smiling at some jokes, groaning at others, you may ask, "It took that long?" This was a script built for laughs, not to last. It's less a Petronian satire than a Catskills burlesque, reveling in fake French ("Garcon, s'il vous plait, / Encore, Chevrolet coupe") and real Yiddish, as when French soldiers sing, "A vous toot dir veh, a vous?" and the nine Supreme Court justices declare, "We're the A.K.'s / Who give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Musicals Like New | 5/12/2006 | See Source »

AUTHOR: MUSIC BY GEORGE GERSHWIN; LYRICS BY IRA GERSHWIN; BOOK BY GEORGE S. KAUFMAN AND MORRIE RYSKIND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winning Ticket | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

...zesty production: they find startling topicality in gibes that weren't born yesterday. Says artistic director Douglas Wager: "Apart from revisiting the librettists' first draft and incorporating some of Ira Gershwin's alternate lyrics, we haven't updated a thing. We haven't had to." The librettists were Morrie Ryskind and, ironically, Kaufman, who despite his woes with satire kept at it anyway. The humor is neither as rich nor as heartfelt as in his You Can't Take It with You, but much of it still sings of us. About the choice of Alexander Throttlebottom as Vice President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winning Ticket | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

...Night at the Opera--George Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind loaded the screenplay with more jokes and comic situations than any movie has a right to have. Groucho, Harpo and Chico are fine and have great foils in Margaret Dumont, Sig Rumann, and the drippy romantic leads, Kitty Carlisle and Allan Jones. Very likely the funniest movie ever made. At the SYMPHONY II, Huntington at Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies and Plays This Weekend | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

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