DeYoung also refuted the claim that Shaw and Young wanted a hard-edged rock sound in contrast to his, even stating on one instance on Shaw's song " Renegade " that the song " wasn't a rock song when he brought it in.

The bluesy rocker had Shaw on slide guitar while Young contributed a Hendrix-like solo to the middle of the track after Shaw's slide solo.

He penned the superb adaptation of Irwin Shaw's World War II novel The Young Lions ( 1958 ) and the slick Wives and Lovers ( 1963 ).

Later that same year, Brando starred in Lee Falk's production of George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man in Boston.

used dialogue from Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs, Carousel used dialogue from Ferenc Molnár's Liliom, My Fair Lady took most of its dialogue word-for-word from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Man of La Mancha took most of its dialogue from the 1959 television play I, Don Quixote ( from which it was adapted ), and the 1954 musical version of Peter Pan used J. M.

The play was first produced on April 21, 1894 at the Avenue Theatre, and published in 1898 as part of Shaw's Plays Pleasant volume, which also included Candida, You Never Can Tell, and The Man of Destiny.

The piece is actually the third act sequence from George Bernard Shaw's play Man and Superman, frequently cut from productions to reduce its playing time, consisting of a philosophical debate between Don Juan and the Devil with contributions from Doña Ana and the statue of Ana's father.

Nolte first gained national attention and critical acclaim for his performance in Rich Man, Poor Man, a 1976 television miniseries based on Irwin Shaw's 1970 best-selling novel.

He later toured in Shaw's Arms and the Man, entertaining the troops.

In 1951, he appeared on the Broadway stage in one of his most notable roles, that of Don Juan, in a dramatic reading of the third act of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman.

The stage production had used the plot of George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man, but Shaw had been deeply offended and angered at the result.

Other stage work in the 1960s included Anouilh's Poor Bitos ( 1967 ) and Robert Shaw's The Man in The Glass Booth ( 1967 ), for which he won the London Variety Award for Stage Actor of the Year in 1968.

Pleasence was nominated four times for the Tony Award for best performance by a leading actor in a Broadway play: in 1962 for Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, in 1965 for Jean Anouilh's Poor Bitos, in 1969 for Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth, and in 1972 for Simon Gray's Wise Child.

Crystal Ball ( 1976 ) was moderately successful and also included Shaw's " Mademoiselle " ( which was another minor hit, reaching No. 36 ) and DeYoung's " This Old Man ".

* Hector Malone in George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman

* George Bernard Shaw's 1903 play Man and Superman is a reference to the archetype ; its main character considers himself an untameable revolutionary, above the normal concerns of humanity.

* 1903: George Bernard Shaw's play Man and Superman ; the third act's dream sequence is often played by itself as Don Juan in Hell

Shaw's more recent exploits included vying for control of the Elixir Vitae, thought to be a cure for the Legacy Virus ; associations with the British intelligence agency Black Air and an unnamed time-manipulator ; and hunting down X-51, the Machine Man.

O ' Hare appeared in a number of theatrical productions on Broadway and in the New York area, including an acclaimed revival of Shaw's Man and Superman with Philip Bosco and the role of Col. Jessup in the original stage version of A Few Good Men ( the role played by Jack Nicholson in the film version ).

A larger water wheel is at Laxey on the Isle of Man and at Greenock, Scotland, the latter supplied by Shaw's Waterworks with water from an elevated reservoir.

She earned a Plays and Players Award, as well as a Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer, after appearing in a 1981 West End theatre production of George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man.

This included a new play by Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire, and the première of George Bernard Shaw's play Arms and the Man.

* John Tanner, character in Bernard Shaw's play Man and Superman

The Chocolate Soldier ( German title: Der tapfere Soldat or Der Praliné-Soldat ) is an operetta composed in 1908 by Oscar Straus ( 1870 – 1954 ) based on George Bernard Shaw's 1894 play, Arms and the Man.

When Robert Mitchum saw him in George Bernard Shaw's play The Man of Destiny in Washington, D. C., he offered Breck a role as a rival driver in Thunder Road ( 1958 ).

* The third act of George Bernard Shaw's play Man and Superman ( 1903 ) is a long philosophical discourse set in hell, between the shades of Don Juan, the Devil, Dona Ana, and Don Juan's nemesis, the statue of her father Don Gonzalo.

Shaw's " What If ( Remo's Theme )" from Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins entered the Billboard Hot 100, while DeYoung's " This is the Time " from The Karate Kid, Part II soundtrack was featured for a short while on MTV.

The appointment was announced at a news conference at which Skorich said he would retain two members of Shaw's staff -- Jerry Williams and Charlie Gauer.

ELIZA was named after Eliza Doolittle, a working-class character in George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, who is taught to speak with an upper-class accent.

Speakers of British English and American English sometimes have this problem, which was alluded to in George Bernard Shaw's statement " England and America are two countries separated by a common language ".

In their 1972 study, The Unknown Orwell, the writers Peter Stansky and William Abrahams note that at Eton Blair displayed a " sceptical attitude " to Christian belief, and that: " Shaw's preface to his recently published Androcles and the Lion in which an account of the gospels is set forth, very different in tone from what one would be likely to hear from an Anglican clergyman " was " much more to Blair's own taste.

George Bernard Shaw's praise for Johnston Forbes-Robertson's performance contains a sideswipe at Irving: " The story of the play was perfectly intelligible, and quite took the attention of the audience off the principal actor at moments.

" Shaw's argument was that even if wealth was initially distributed equally, the degree of laissez-faire advocated by Tucker would result in the distribution of wealth becoming unequal because it would permit private appropriation and accumulation.

Her last Broadway appearance was as Mrs. Warren in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, produced by Joseph Papp at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in 1976.

Notkin, Gorlick, and Shaw's report was also less than positive.

For example, when Alfred Shaw's benefit match in 1879 was ruined by rain, Grace insisted on donating to Shaw the proceeds of another match that had been arranged to support Grace's own testimonial fund.

Failure to become a serious dramatic actor disappointed him, but his potential as a comic performer gave him his break when he was spotted playing the Dauphin in George Bernard Shaw's St Joan in 1954 by radio producer Dennis Main Wilson.

On the evening of 10 May 1935, Lustig was arrested by federal agents on charges of counterfeiting after an anonymous phone call was made, out of jealousy, by his mistress Billy May, who became jealous when she learned of the romance between him and Shaw's young mistress Marie.

The play was one of Shaw's first commercial successes.

When Shaw heard, in 1921, that Franz Lehár wanted to set his play Pygmalion to music, he sent word to Vienna that Lehár be instructed that he could not touch Pygmalion without infringing Shaw's copyright and that Shaw had " no intention of allowing the history of The Chocolate Soldier to be repeated "( only after Shaw's death was Pygmalion eventually adapted by Lerner and Loewe as My Fair Lady ).

Their adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with the leads, Henry Higgins and Eliza Doolittle, being played originally by Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews, was a huge hit in New York and London.

By far his biggest hit was the musical My Fair Lady ( 1956 ), adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.

* Zaharoff was one of the inspirations for the unscrupulous arms manufacturer Andrew Undershaft in George Bernard Shaw's play Major Barbara.

Shaw's friends accused Nancy of becoming puritanical and rigid after she married, while her friends claimed that Shaw was an alcoholic rapist.

Such was Armstrong's fame as a gun-maker that he is thought to be a possible model for George Bernard Shaw's arms magnate in Major Barbara.

With the rise of feminist movements in the twentieth century, reactions to the play changed: " In short, Kate's taming was no longer as funny as it had been for some readers and spectators ; her domination became, in George Bernard Shaw's words ' altogether disgusting to modern sensibility '.

A character in George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House was named Hesione.