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Three's A Crowd premiered on Broadway at the Selwyn Theatre on October 15, 1930, and closed on June 6, 1931, after 271 performances.. It was “compiled” by Howard Dietz; staged by Hassard Short; dances by Albertina Rasch; with additional songs by Johnny Green, Vernon Duke, Burton Lane, and others.
Personals is a musical revue with comic scenes and songs about people writing and responding to newspaper personal advertisements.It is written by David Crane, Seth Friedman and Marta Kauffman, with songs by William Dreskin, Joel Phillip Friedman, Seth Friedman, Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz and Michael Skloff.
In the 1980s, Schwartz wrote songs for a one-act musical for children, The Trip, which 20 years later was revised, expanded and produced as Captain Louie. He then wrote music for three of the songs of the Off-Broadway revue Personals, and lyrics to Charles Strouse's music for the musical Rags. [9]
The show introduced one of the best [5] Schwartz-Dietz songs, "Dancing in the Dark", which was also the title of one of the two motion pictures made from this show. (The other was The Band Wagon . ) This was the first New York production to use the double revolving stage for the songs and sketches.
Jack Feldman is an American lyricist who has written songs for television, film, and Broadway. He has worked on many Disney movies ranging from Oliver & Company to The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, collaborating with Alan Menken on the songs for Newsies. [1]
King David is a song-cycle about David whom Alan Menken deems "one of the great heroes of Jewish history", [3] and is based on Biblical tales from the Books of Samuel and 1 Chronicles, as well as text from David's Psalms. It retells the Old Testament story of the shepherd boy, David, who rises from his humble roots to become King of Israel ...
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a musical with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz.It is adapted from Walt Disney Animation Studios' 1996 film of the same name, which in turn was based on the 1831 novel of the same name by Victor Hugo.
Diamonds is a musical revue about baseball.The book and music were created by many writers, composers, and lyricists. Among them were Ellen Fitzhugh, Roy Blount, Jr., Alan Zweibel, and John Weidman (book); and Larry Grossman, Comden and Green, Howard Ashman, Alan Menken, Kander and Ebb, and Cy Coleman, music.