Read Loverly:The Life and Times of My Fair Lady (Broadway Legacies) Online
Authors: Dominic McHugh
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The Cambridge Companion to the Musical.
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Fordin, Hugh.
MGM’s Greatest Musicals.
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The Making of My Fair Lady.
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A Hymn to Him: The Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner.
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Let’s Face the Music: The Golden Age of Popular Song
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The World of Musical Comedy
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Playwrights, Lyricists, Composers on Theater.
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Jablonski, Edward.
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New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1996.
Kirle, Bruce.
Unfinished Business: Broadway Musicals as Works-in-Progress.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005.
Knapp, Raymond.
The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Knapp, Raymond.
The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity.
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Kortus, Günter.
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Lambert, Gavin.
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Laurence, Dan, ed.
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Lawson-Peebles, Robert, ed.
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Lerner, Alan Jay.
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Lerner, Alan Jay.
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Loney, Glenn, ed.
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Mangan, Richard, ed.
Gielgud’s Letters.
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Matthew-Walker, Robert.
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McMillin, Scott.
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Miletich, Leo N.
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Mordden, Ethan.
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Mordden, Ethan.
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Mordden, Ethan.
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Suskin, Steven.
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Wilk, Max.
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ARCHIVAL MATERIAL CONSULTEDZinsser, William.
Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and their Songs.
Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine Publisher, 2000.
Library of Congress, Washington DC:
Frederick Loewe Collection (by box/folder number):
5/1: Ascot Gavotte (3pp, Loewe autograph)
5/2: Come to the Ball (4pp, Loewe autograph)
5/3: Come to the Ball (11pp, Ozalid of copyist’s piano-vocal score, ann. in pencil)
5/4: Dear Little Fool (1p, Loewe autograph; lead sheet, no lyric)
5/5: Finale Act 1/(Procession—Embassy Waltz) (8pp, Loewe autograph)
5/6: Entr’acte (8pp, Loewe autograph)
5/7: Flower Market (5pp, Loewe autograph)
5/8: Get Me to the Church on Time (4pp, Loewe autograph)
5/9: A Hymn to Him (13pp, Loewe autograph)
5/10: I Could Have Danced All Night (inside cover: crossed out pp. 3–4 of early version of “Why Can’t the English?”) (7pp, Loewe autograph)
5/11: I’m an Ordinary Man (13pp, Loewe autograph)
5/12: I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face (13pp, Loewe autograph)
5/14: Just You Wait (8pp, Loewe autograph)
5/15: Lady Liza (1p, lead sheet); Liza—counterpoint (2pp, lead sheet) (Loewe autographs)
5/16: On the Street Where She Lives (inside cover: crossed out pp. 7–8 of early version of “Why Can’t the English”) (7pp, Loewe autograph)
5/17: Overture (2pp, Loewe autograph)
5/18: Please Don’t Marry Me (lead sheet) (3pp, Loewe autograph)
5/19: The Pygmalion Waltzes (Embassy Waltz) (7pp, Loewe autograph)
5/20: The Pygmalion Waltzes (4pp, Photocopy of copyist’s autograph piano score with ann. in pencil)
5/21: The Rain in Spain (5pp); The Servants’ Chorus (2pp) (Loewe autographs)
5/22: Show Me (inside cover: crossed out pp. 5–6 of early version “Why Can’t the English?”) (7pp, Loewe autograph)
5/23: Shy (3pp, Loewe autograph); Shy (4pp, Rittmann arrangement, Latin version)
5/24: There’s a Thing Called Love (lead sheet; typed lyric sheet laid in) (2pp, Loewe autograph)
5/25: What Is a Woman? (lead sheet) (1p, Loewe autograph)
5/26: Why Can’t the English? (inside cover: crossed out pp. 1–2 of early version of the same song, Rittmann arrangement) (10pp, Loewe autograph)
5/27: With a Little Bit of Luck (6pp, Loewe autograph)
5/29: Without You (7pp, Loewe autograph)
5/30: Wouldn’t It be Loverly? (5pp, Loewe autograph)
5/31: You Did It (23pp, Loewe autograph)
8/20: Limehouse (melody without lyric) (1p, Loewe autograph)
8/27: Over Your Head (melody without lyric) (1p, Loewe autograph)
8/36: The Son of the Wooden Soldier (1941); lyrics by John W. Bratton (5pp, published piano-vocal score)
8/37: There’s Always One You Can’t Forget (melody without lyric) (1p, Loewe autograph)
8/40: The Undeserving Poor (sketch) (1p, Loewe autograph)
8/44: What’s to Become of Me? (lead sheet; “There’s Always One” written below) (1p); Say Hello For Me (lead sheet without lyric) (1p); “What’s To Become of Me?” (sketches) (1p) (Loewe autographs)
8/45: Who Is the Lady? (lead sheet without lyric) (1p, Loewe autograph)
9/2: Say a Prayer for Me Tonight (sketch) (1p, Loewe autograph)
9/9: Who Is the Lady? (lead sheet) (1p, Loewe autograph)
9/10: Say a Prayer for Me Tonight (sketches)
Warner-Chappell Collection (By Box/Folder Number):
141/1: End of Ascot (1p, Bennett’s full score for original end of scene)
141/1: New 24 (2pp, Lang’s score for change of scene)
141/1: Ascot Gavotte (16pp, Copyist’s full score)
141/1: Ascot Gavotte (9pp, Freda Miller’s dance pianist’s piano score: mixture of copyist’s score and Rittmann’s score for the dance; intermediate stage of number)
141/1: Ascot Gavotte (3pp, photocopy of Rittmann’s piano score for ‘Intro to Gavotte’ with pencil annotations)
141/3: Intro to Gavotte (2pp, photocopy of Rittmann’s piano score (ann.))
141/3: Ascot Gavotte (7pp, copyist’s score plus Rittmann’s score (ann.); final version)