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Jun 15, 1986 · Alan Jay Lerner, the lyricist and playwright who formed with the composer Frederick (Fritz) Loewe one of the legendary partnerships of the American musical theater, died of lung cancer yesterday...
Alan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American lyricist and librettist. In collaboration with Frederick Loewe, and later Burton Lane, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre both for the stage and on film. Lerner won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards, among other honors.
Jun 15, 1986 · June 15, 1986 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. Alan Jay Lerner, the Oscar-, Tony- and Grammy-award winning playwright and lyricist who joined composer Frederick Loewe to create such Broadway...
Playwright, Lyricist. He was one of the top songwriters in the musical theatre and Hollywood during the Golden Age of the American musical. Lerner was born the son of the owner of the Lerner Shops clothing stores.
After Shaw died in 1950, Pascal asked lyricist Alan Jay Lerner to write the musical adaptation. Lerner agreed, and he and his partner Frederick Loewe began work.
Jul 11, 1986 · Memories of Alan Jay Lerner flooded Broadway's Shubert Theater Thursday at a memorial service for the noted lyricist, who died here June 14, of cancer, at age 67.
(born Aug. 31, 1918, New York, N.Y., U.S. - died June 14, 1986, New York City) U.S. librettist and lyricist. Born to a prosperous retailing family, he studied at Juilliard and Harvard. He wrote more than 500 radio scripts between 1940 and 1942, the year he met the composer Frederick Loewe.
