The man behind "I Could Have Danced all Night" and "Almost Like Being in Love", lyricist Alan Jay Lerner (1918-1986) is widely regarded as one of the most important figures of the American musical stage. In penning the lyrics to some of the most well-known and beloved Broadway shows, including Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, and Camelot, Lerner worked and corresponded with some of the greatest luminaries of popular entertainment over a career which spa...

Alan Jay Lerner wrote the lyrics for some of the most beloved musicals in Broadway and Hollywood history. Most notably, with composer Frederick Loewe he created enduring hits such as My Fair Lady, Gigi, Camelot, and Brigadoon. In The Complete Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner, editors and annotators Dominic McHugh and Amy Asch bring all of Lerner's lyrics together for the first time, including numerous draft or alternate versions and songs cut from the shows. Compiled fr...

This warm, loving, and often hilarious personal history of My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Gigi describes the cast of a great era in American musical theater: Moss Heart, Fritz Loewe, Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Cecil Beaton, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier, Leslie Caron, Vincente Minelli, Arthur Freed, and many others... How these people worked together to conceive, finance, write, produce, stage, and present these brilliant shows is detailed here, in this a...

(Vocal Selections). 13 selections from the Lerner & Loewe classic presented in standard piano/vocal format with the melody in the piano part. Includes: Almost like Being in Love * Brigadoon * Come to Me, Bend to Me * Down on MacConnachy Square * From This Day On * The Heather on the Hill * I'll Go Home with Bonnie Jean * Jeannie's Packin' Up * The Love of My Life * My Mother's Weddin' Day * Prologue * There but for You Go I * Waitin' for My Dearie.

"Es grünt so grün, wenn Spaniens Blüten blühen …" – Jeder Musical-Fan singt diese Zeile sofort mit: Es ist einer der unzähligen Übungsverse, mit denen der arrogante Phonetik-Professor Henry Higgins die einfache Blumenverkäuferin Eliza Doolittle bis zum Umfallen "quält". Von ihrer ungehobelten, ordinären Sprache fasziniert behauptet er selbstbewusst aus dieser "Rinnsteinpflanze" innerhalb kurzer Zeit eine vornehme Lady machen zu können. Sein Kollege Oberst Pickering hält dagegen und schließ...