Product Description: The remarkable, unprecedented biography of the Hammersteins, Broadway's greatest and most influential family, as told by Oscar Andrew Hammerstein The Hammersteins is the story of one of Broadway's most creative and productive families...read more

Product Description: Famed lyricist Dorothy Fields penned the words to more than four hundred songs, among them mega-hits such as "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, " and "The Way You Look Tonight." In Pick Yourself Up, Charlotte Greenspan offers the most complete treatment of Fields's life and work to date, tracing her rise to prominence in a male-dominated world...read more

Product Description: Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner (1918–86) and composer Frederick Loewe (1901–88) wrote some of the most successful musical shows on Broadway and in motion-picture history: Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, Camelot, Gigi, and Paint Your Wagon...read more

The composer-lyricist team for such musicals as Chicago and Cabaret discusses their partnership, contributions to the stage world, impact on the careers of starring performers, and their witness to the American musical theater of the late twentieth century. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: Harry B. Smith was the most prolific writer of librettos for the American musical theatre in history, with nearly half of his 300 works actually opening in New York City. In addition, Smith was instrumental in adapting and popularizing foreign musicals in America, significantly influencing writing and composing styles of American shows...read more

Product Description: The greatest partnership in the history of the musical, captured in print, wonderfully illustrated. For this new edition, the book has been completely rewritten and substantially expanded to include material on Rodgers' early career with Lorenz Hart as well as his later work, and also features recollections from such theatrical titans as Sheldon Harnick, Martin Charnin, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Details the life and career of the woman songwriter who's songs were featured in films, on Broadway, and in house revues at the Cotton Club from the 1930s to the 1970s (view table of contents)

Product Description: In this incandescent autobiographical collage, lyricist, playwright and performer Betty Comden takes an exuberant and rueful look back on a lifetime of celebrated triumphs and private sorrow. With her lifelong collaborator Adolph Green, she has achieved glorious success on stage in such musical milestones as On the Town, Wonderful Town and Bells Are Ringing and on screen in the unforgettable Singing in the Rain and The Band Wagon...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A portrait of lyricist and screenwriter Alan Jay Lerner chronicles his privileged childhood and education, early career endeavors, historic collaboration with Frederick Loewe, and acclaimed achievements.

Offering a dual biography of two giants of the American musical theater, a comparison of the lives and works of Alan Jay Lerner and Oscar Hammerstein II is a reference on the lyricists filled with photographs, a bibliography, and chronologies. UP.

Product Description: Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960) forged a remarkable, multifaceted career as a librettist, lyricist, playwright, director, and producer. He wrote Carmen Jones, Carousel, Show Boat, and, with longtime collaborator Richard Rodgers, Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music...read more

Product Description: This warm, loving, and often hilarious personal history of My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Gigi describes the cast of a great era in American musical theater: Moss Heart, Fritz Loewe, Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Cecil Beaton, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier, Leslie Caron, Vincente Minelli, Arthur Freed, and many others...read more

Product Description: This reference provides a detailed overview of the work of Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who for over fifty years have collaborated on skits, musicals, revues, and films. The book begins with a biography and a chronology, which serve as a summary of the major events in their lives and careers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This tender, personal story reveals the public and private lives of show-business genius Alan Jay Lerner and his personal assistant, Doris Shapiro--the outsider he took along with him for the ride. Photographs.

Looks at the Broadway songwriting team's complex professional relationship as well as glimpsing into their glamorous private lives and their friendships with other celebrities

Johnny Mercer's popular song lyrics are accompanied by a survey of his life and a collection of letters, sheet music, photographs, and other memorabilia

Traces the career and tragic life of Al Dubin, the lyricist responsible for Forty-Second Street, I Only Have Eyes for You, and Indian Summer