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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.
Jan 8, 1997 · FOLLOWING a humiliating few months of bad press Alan J Lerner took Micheline to the divorce courts in 1965. He claimed that she had called him ``a cheap musical comedy writer'' and referred to...
- The Herald Staff
Jun 10, 2024 · It may be a well-loved classic, but from a modern audience’s viewpoint, this familiar musical by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, throws some...
Oct 28, 2014 · In 1970, writing to his hero, the octogenarian songwriter Irving Berlin, Lerner seemed to abandon his usual leftist political beliefs — close to those of Bernstein — to make an ethnic jest...
In August 1942 at the Lambs Club in New York City 24 year old American, Alan Jay Lerner and 41 year old Austrian, Frederick Loewe, officially met each other. As recounted by Lerner, the two met by chance when Loewe took a wrong turn on his way to the bathroom.
Feb 21, 2000 · On a clear day you may well be able to see a whole lot, but Alan Jay Lerner, the producer, book writer and lyricist of this seriously loopy 1965 musical, was clearly not having too many clear...
Think “Dear Evan Hansen.” But great scores cannot survive a deeply flawed book. Think “Merrily We Roll Along” or “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.” Scribes are forever thinking they can solve...
