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3 unusual facts about Alan Jay Lerner


Edward Petherbridge

Petherbridge has performed in stage musicals, including Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White, Kurt Weill's Lost in the Stars, The Fantasticks by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones, Coco by André Previn and Alan Jay Lerner, and most recently a musical version of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

Leonard Frey

He played Clare Quilty in the Alan Jay Lerner musical Lolita, My Love which closed, before reaching Broadway, in 1974.

Nancy Olson

She became the third wife of lyricist Alan Jay Lerner in 1950 and had two daughters, Liza and Jennifer.


American Princess

American Princess is based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and Alan Jay Lerner's My Fair Lady in a modern setting, where twenty American women who are average, plain, and rather ill-mannered, are taken to London, England to master the finer arts of British society and be crowned "American Princess" and earn valuable prizes.

Barbra Streisand...And Other Musical Instruments

#"Come Back to Me" (Alan Jay Lerner, Burton Lane) – 1:38

Concept musical

There are three major contenders for the title of first concept (even though the term "concept musical" hadn't been coined when any of them played): Lady in the Dark (1941) by Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin, and Moss Hart; Allegro (1947) by Rodgers and Hammerstein; and Love Life (1948) by Weill and Alan Jay Lerner.

Edward Jablonski

Edward Jablonski (March 1, 1922 – February 10, 2004) was the author of several biographies on American cultural personalities, such as George Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Alan Jay Lerner and Irving Berlin, as well as several books on aviation history.

Finishing the Hat

Additionally Sondheim offers sidebar critiques of some of the most renowned American lyricists of the first half of the 20th century, including Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Lorenz Hart, Alan Jay Lerner, Frank Loesser, and his own mentor, Oscar Hammerstein II.

Full View

# "On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)" (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) - 3:14

Gerard Kenny

In 1983, he began to work with Alan Jay Lerner on a musical adaption of My Man Godfrey, but Lerner died before it could be completed.

Michael Feinstein with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

# "On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)" (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) - 2:38

Rapid City Muscle Car

A full big band orchestra is used on "Come Back to Me", a cover song taken from the 1965 Burton Lane/Alan Jay Lerner Broadway musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.

Sings Standards

# "I've Grown Accustomed to His Face" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) — 5:14

The Tender Storm

# "On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever)" (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) - 7:09


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Theodore H. White

At the time, a play of that name was being performed on Broadway and Jackie focused on the ending lyrics of an Alan Jay Lerner song, "Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot." White, who had known the Kennedys from his time as a classmate of the late President's brother, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., was happy to oblige.