Lerner and Loewe's run of success continued with their next project, a film adaptation of stories from Colette, the Academy Award winning film musical Gigi, starring Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier.

Camelot was a hit nonetheless, with a poignant coda ; immediately following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, his widow told Life magazine that JFK's administration reminded her of the " one brief shining moment " of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot.

For example, the characters in Lerner and Loewe's musical My Fair Lady, which is based on George Bernard Shaw's 1914 play Pygmalion, are essentially unchanged from those in Shaw's stage work, because the musical version is quite faithful to the original ( except for the changed ending, which is pessimistic in the play ), even to the point of retaining most of Shaw's dialogue.

In 1956, Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady first appeared.

He opined that Lerner and Loewe's score for The Day Before Spring the previous year was better than theirs for Brigadoon, explaining that, " If my first emotion last night was admiration rather than sheer enjoyment, it was because the proceedings seemed to me more marked by taste and style than by emotional warmth in book and music, but there is no denying that the authors have matured as theatrical craftsmen ".

Warner sold his 1. 6 million shares of studio stock shortly after producing the film adaptation of Lerner & Loewe's Camelot.

For the 2010 Stratford Shakespeare Festival season, Geraint portrayed king Arthur in Lerner and Loewe's Camelot and Falstaff in Merry Wives of Windsor.

As an example from the American musical, several long speeches in Lerner and Loewe's Brigadoon are delivered over an accompaniment of evocative music.

In 1962 he replaced Robert Coote as King Pellinore ( with over-the-title star billing ) in the original Broadway production of Lerner and Loewe's musical " Camelot " and he remained with the show through the Chicago engagement and post-Broadway tour that closed in August 1964.

His final stage appearance in a musical was in 1973 as Honore LaChaisse in Lerner and Loewe's Gigi.

Although work was supposed to continue on on the Lane – Lerner Li ' l Abner, this version never appeared, and My Fair Lady, Lerner and Loewe's adaptation of Pygmalion, opened in 1956, becoming the hit musical of the decade.

His later Broadway musicals All-American ( 1962 ) and Mr. President ( 1962 ) and the films of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot ( 1967 ), and Paint Your Wagon ( 1969 ) were less well received.

The final line of the verse was probably the inspiration for the title of Lerner and Loewe's 1956 musical My Fair Lady.

In 2008, he played Merlin in Lerner and Loewe's " Camelot ", done with the NY Philharmonic.

Having recognized him, he asked if Lerner wrote lyrics and Lerner confirmed Loewe's question.

On September 11, 2007, Phillips joined the touring troup for Lerner and Loewe's Camelot in the role of King Arthur.

In 1956, Lieberson persuaded CBS to put up the entire capitalization for Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady.

The first production was Alexander H. Cohen's production of the pre-Broadway premiere of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot, starring Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet.

His first season, produced in 2008, consisted of productions of Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Lerner and Loewe's Gigi-starring Millicent Martin as Mamita and Topol as Honore-and an especially adapted production of A Midsummer Night's Dream for family audiences.

* Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, Gigi, Camelot

# Selections from Lerner and Loewe's ... My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon ( 1957 )-ViK

" Stewart's book in turn inspired Lerner and Loewe's song " They Call the Wind Maria.

Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz first tried, and then Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II attempted, but gave up and Hammerstein told Lerner " Pygmalion had no subplot ".

The Just-world phenomenon is the belief that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get, which was first theorized by Melvin Lerner ( 1977 ).

Lyricist and book writer Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe had previously collaborated on three musicals ; the first, Life of the Party, closed during pre-Broadway tryouts, and the second and third, What's Up?

However, Lerner denied that he had based the book on an older story, and, in an explanation published in The New York Times, stated that he didn't learn of the existence of the Germelshausen story until after he had completed the first draft of Brigadoon.

The first translation into Yiddish was by Osip Mikhailovich Lerner, who staged the play at the Mariinski Theater in Odessa, Ukraine ( then part of Imperial Russia ) in 1881, shortly after the assassination of Tsar Alexander II.

The librettist, Alan Jay Lerner, remembered in his memoirs that Holloway was his first choice for the role, even before it was written.

The belief that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get, which was first theorized by Melvin Lerner ( 1977 ).

The toy was invented and developed by George Lerner in 1949, and first manufactured and distributed by Hasbro in 1952.

Elwood's eight-volume young adult hardcover Lerner SF Library ( 1974 ), with three or four stories per volume, includes stories from three authors whose only recorded sale, according to the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, was to that book ; two more authors who only ever sold stories to Roger Elwood ; and one whose only first sale was to Roger Elwood, but who had the story picked up for republication elsewhere.

During his first term, Lerner implemented the Rede Integrada de Transporte ( also called Bus Rapid Transit ), and continued to implement a host of social, ecological, and urban reforms during his ensuing terms as mayor.

Lerner claimed to be the more dominant one of partnership, which is supported by interviews with their close friends, saying that he would throw out the first two melodies that Loewe would write to any song even if they were both perfect.

In 2005, Hollinger merged the 80-year-old Lerner Newspapers chain into Pioneer Press, Pioneer's first real inroads into the city of Chicago.

Ken Lerner ( born May 27, 1948 ) is an American television, stage and film actor who is perhaps best known for playing " Principal Flutie " in the first episodes of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The desire to understand the processes that caused these observed phenomena led Lerner to conduct his first experiments on what is now called the just world hypothesis.

Lerner said that his " heart sank " when he was sent the first script of Jaws 3-D, saying " I can't really get involved in this ".

This was first demonstrated graphically by economist Abba Lerner and mathematically by economists Harold Hotelling, Oskar Lange, Maurice Allais, Kenneth Arrow and Gérard Debreu.

The Janitors for Justice campaign began with Stephen Lerner, a former UFW organizer and later head of SEIU ’ s janitorial division in D. C. Lerner was placed in Denver for his first janitor ’ s organizing drive.

Much of his writing since the 1970s has been in collaboration, particularly with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, but also Brenda Cooper and Edward M. Lerner.

* A review of Susan Howe's collaboration with David Grubbs by Ben Lerner

However, the production company Nu Image led by Avi Lerner wanted the script re-written too, a job that also went to Dragojević who in turn brought in Dimitrije Vojnov thus continuing their collaboration.