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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 · 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...
Jun 15, 1986 · 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 hits as “My Fair Lady,”...
Jul 21, 2008 · DIED. Alan Jay Lerner, 67, composer, playwright and lyricist of Broadway hit musicals, including Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, Camelot, Paint Your Wagon and Gigi, and author of the screenplay for...
Alan Jay Lerner. Born: 1918. Died: 1986. Lived in: United States. (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 ...
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.
Maury Yeston, the award-winning composer and lyricist of Nine and Titanic, has said of Lerner, "He was perhaps the best we've ever had." Alan Jay Lerner had eight wives, the last of them actress Liz Robertson, who was with him when he died of lung cancer in New York City on June 14, 1986.
