Alan Jay Lerner
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This Day in Pop: 1958 - Lerner and Loewe's 'Gigi' Opens
The legendary Arthur Freed produced—also his last great film—and Andre Previn conducted the orchestra, with the incomparable Alan Jay Lerner penning the screenplay and the song lyrics with music by Frederick Loewe. Heading up the cast was a trio of top-line from PopMatters Read more »
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Strong Eliza aids 'My Fair Lady'
Jay Lerner's book for "My Fair Lady" is one of the most literate in the musical- theater canon. And he and composer Frederick Loewe created a score comprised of one standard after another. One of the great musicals of all time, it's getting an only passable from Minneapolis Star Tribune Read more »
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DVD Extra: 'Camelot'
embodied the idea that all good things come to an end, it is probably Camelot, the 1967 adaptation of Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner's hit Broadway musical. The story itself, of course, recounts the collapse of King Arthur's idealistic reign, but it also from USA Today Read more »
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Milestones, Dec. 23, 1974
Alan Jay Lerner, 56, Broadway lyricist-laureate (My Fair Lady, Camelot); By Karen Gundersen Lerner, 39, former Newsweek reporter who met him during a 1965 interview; after eight years of marriage, two years of separation, no children; in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. from Time Magazine Read more »
