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Lerner and Loewe, c. 1962 Lerner and Loewe is the partnership between lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe. [1] Spanning three decades and nine musicals from 1942 to 1960 and again from 1970 to 1972, the pair are known for being behind the creation of critical on stage successes such as My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, and Camelot along with the musical film Gigi.
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.
Life of the Party is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The first of the team's many collaborations, it is a musical adaptation of Barry Connor's farce The Patsy. It was written for a Detroit stock theatre company.
My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.The story, based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play Pygmalion and on the 1938 film adaptation of the play, concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a lady.
Lerner was born on January 13, 1965, in Detroit. [1] She received her Bachelor of General Studies with distinction, from the Honors College at the University of Michigan in 1986 and her Juris Doctor from the New York University Law School in 1989, where she was a Root-Tilden Scholar .
Detroit, Michigan (1878) The firm's headquarters are in One Detroit Center in Downtown Detroit. [11] [12] [13] The company moved into the building when it opened in 1992. [14] In 2007 the company had almost 100,000 square feet (9,300 m 2) of space in the building. That year it renewed its lease. [13] Troy, Michigan (1966)
The Broadway cast recording of the musical My Fair Lady was first released April 2, 1956 by Columbia Records, [2] with songs by Lerner and Loewe, conducted by Franz Allers, starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews. Columbia president Goddard Lieberson provided the $375,000 needed to stage the show in return for the rights to the cast recording. [2]
The American National Biography calls Lerner's book a "partial autobiography … one of the most readable and quotable of the genre". [1] London's The Times praised it as "Alan Jay Lerner's terrific autobiography". [10] The Street Where I Live was reissued in 1989 by Columbus Books and in 1994 by the Da Capo Press. [11]