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Mame is a musical with a book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman.Originally titled My Best Girl, it is based on the 1955 novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis and the 1956 Broadway play of the same name by Lawrence and Lee.
Gerald Sheldon Herman (July 10, 1931 – December 26, 2019) was an American composer and lyricist, known for his work in Broadway theatre.. One of the most commercially successful Broadway songwriters of his time, Herman was the composer and lyricist for a number of hit musicals, starting in the 1960s, that were characterized by an upbeat and optimistic outlook and what Herman called "the ...
We Need a Little Christmas" is a popular Christmas song originating from Jerry Herman's Broadway musical Mame, and first performed by Angela Lansbury in that 1966 production. [1] In the musical, the song is performed after Mame has lost her fortune in the Wall Street crash of 1929, and decides that she, her young nephew Patrick, and her two ...
Tony Award-winning composer Jerry Herman, who wrote the cheerful, good-natured music and lyrics for such classic shows as "Mame," "Hello, Dolly!" and "La Cage aux Folles," died Thursday. He was 88.
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Mame (1966) Jerry Herman: Jerry Herman Jerome Lawrence Robert E. Lee: Mame (1974) Gene Saks: Mamma Mia! (1999) Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus: Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus Catherine Johnson: Mamma Mia! (2008) Phyllida Lloyd: Man of La Mancha (1965) Mitch Leigh: Joe Darion: Dale Wasserman: Man of La Mancha (1972) Arthur Hiller: Matilda the ...
Mame is a 1974 Technicolor musical film in Panavision based on the 1966 Broadway musical of the same name ... Herman, Jerry; Stasio, Marilyn (1996). Showtune: A Memoir.
Famous for many things, not least Carol Channing playing the title role more than 5,000 times, “Hello, Dolly!” is, happily, one of Broadway’s brashest, splashiest star vehicles whose ...