Lerner and Loewe

[Someone in a tree]

With the exception of My Fair, I don’t really know their shows despite the songs Ive heard sounding rather good.

Camelot now has a new book and Brigadoon is getting staged with a newish book in Canada – are their shows that troublesome that rewrites are required? Even with rewrites are they still second filddle to Rogers & Hammerstein?

Thank heavens for little rewrites!

[Jon]

It's actually Lerner and Loewe...

[Someone in a tree]

Yikes! Corrected ✅️

[oxfordsimon]

And Rodgers ...

[oxfordsimon]

Back on the main topic...

R&H shows get tweaked and altered all the time. A good number of them don't get revived

So L&L are not the only ones that get subject to revisions.

Camelot has always had a clunky book.

Brigadoon doesn't need much other than a bit of dialogue tidying.

Gigi hasn't been revived for a while but it is probably too problematic in terms of content to get to the stage again in a major revival. Though it does contain some nice tunes.

[FairyGodmother]

There's an album where you hear them speaking at the end. I'll see if I can find it.

[FairyGodmother]

music.apple.com/gb/album/my-fair-lady-original-1956-broadway-cast-bonus-tracks/158862806

This one. It's only a short track at the end but nice to hear them describing how they wrote together.

If you search "Playback: Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe (Bonus Track)" on YouTube you can hear it.