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Title: The Street Where I Live by Alan Jay Lerner ISBN: 0-306-80602-9 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (7 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: butchered
Comment: Yeah, well I gave it as a gift once too. Then I read the gift and learned that it wasn't the gift I intended. Sorry if that sounds garbled, but the long and short of it is: this isn't the book Alan Jay Lerner originally published. Much of that (great) book, including some of its very best parts, has been extracted. The thing that really gets me, though, is that this paperback version's inside flap claims it is "unabridged"! HOW can they get away with this?
Rating: 5
Summary: The great lyricist also a master of prose (not a surprise!).
Comment: Alan J. Lerner/and his collaborations with Fritz Lowe and Burton Lane are miracles of the 20th century. The circumstances of their coming together in an artistic and social mileux that called for--no yearned for that kind of musical theater--is a story in itself.
Mr. Lerner talks eloquently about these collaborators-and others (some not so succesful), and gives us complete and insightful discussions about the shows for which he has written the lyrics--"just" productions like "My Fair Lady," "Gigi," "Camelot," and others perhaps not as well known.
Mr. Lerner also discusses his own life with great candor--and even greater wit.
This book is an absolute must-have for those interested in The American Musical Theater! I have given it several times as a gift.
Rating: 5
Summary: a superior memoir
Comment: This is a witty (if occasionally slaphappy), literate, and very readable (difficult to put down) account of the making of three musicals. I doubt, however, that persons not especially interested in the theatre will want to read this. Note also that this is not a conventional autobiography like, say, Richard Rodgers's "Musical Stages": it concerns the circumstances of the author's life only peripherally.
Also recommended: Craig Zadan's "Sondheim & Company" and, for musicians, Jeff Burns's "Pentatonic Scales for the Jazz Rock Keyboardist".
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Title: Musical Stages: An Autobiography by Richard Rodgers, Mary Rodgers ISBN: 0306811340 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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Title: Getting to Know Him: A Biography of Oscar Hammerstein II by Hugh Fordin, Stephen Sondheim ISBN: 0306806681 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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Title: Colored Lights : Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz by John Kander, Fred Ebb, Greg Lawrence ISBN: 057121133X Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 05 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Making of My Fair Lady by Keith Garebian ISBN: 0889626537 Publisher: Mosaic Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title:My Fair Lady ASIN: 630522577X Publisher: Warner Studios Pub. Date: 08 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.99 |
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