Weill-Lenya Research Center collection of performance history records of Lady in the dark, 1941-[ongoing].

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Weill-Lenya Research Center collection of performance history records of Lady in the dark, 1941-[ongoing].

Includes programs, press clippings, photographs, and related materials for stage productions, broadcasts, and film or video adaptations (if any) of the work, beginning with the December 1940 preview at the Colonial Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts. Posters, photographic prints (for productions prior to 1983), and recordings are filed in other series.

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Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983

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Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his brother George Gershwin to create some of the most memorable songs in the English language of the 20th century. Born in Brooklyn, the oldest of four children. It was not until 1924 that Ira and George teamed up to write the music for what became their first Broadway hit Lady, Be Good. Some of their more famous works include "The Man I Love", "Fascinating Rhythm", "Someone to Watch Over Me", "I Got Rhythm" and "They Can't Take That A...

Hart, Moss, 1904-1961

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Weill, Kurt

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As a result of the success of his Broadway musical Lady in the dark in 1941, German-born composer Kurt Weill and his wife, the singing actress Lotte Lenya, were able to buy "Brook House," in Rockland County, New York, moving there during their sixth year in the United States. From Brook House, and a couple of addresses in Los Angeles during his trips there, Weill kept in touch, until a month before his death, with his parents, who had emigrated to Israel in 1935. From the description...