Loverly:The Life and Times of My Fair Lady (Broadway Legacies), McHugh, Dominic [fantasy books to read TXT] 📗

Kitty Carlisle., Kitty: An Autobiography. New York: Doubleday, 1988.

Hart, Moss. Act One: An Autobiography. New York: Random House, 1959.

Holloway, Stanley with Dick Richards. Wiv a Little Bit O’ Luck: The Life Story of Stanley Holloway. London: Frewin, 1967.

Hughes, Gervase. Composers of Operetta. London: Macmillan, 1962.

Inglis, Ian, ed. Popular Music and Film. London: Wallflower Press, 2003.

Jablonski, Edward. Alan Jay Lerner: A Biography. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1996.

Kirle, Bruce. Unfinished Business: Broadway Musicals as Works-in-Progress. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005.

Knapp, Raymond. The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Knapp, Raymond. The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.

Kortus, Günter. My Fair Lady: Musical von Friedrich Loewe. Die Oper: Schriftenreihe über Musikalische Bühmnenwerke. Berlin: Robert Lienau Verlag, 1977.

Lambert, Gavin. On Cukor. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1972; rev. ed. New York: Rizzoli, 2000.

Laufe, Abe. Broadway’s Greatest Musicals. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1970.

Laurence, Dan, ed. Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters 1898–1910. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1972.

Laurence, Dan, ed. Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters 1911–25. New York, Viking, 1985.

Laurence, Dan, ed. Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters 1926–50. New York: Viking, 1988.

Lawson-Peebles, Robert, ed. Approaches to the American Musical. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1996.

Lees, Gene. Inventing Champagne: The Worlds of Lerner and Loewe. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990.

Lerner, Alan Jay. The Musical Theatre: A Celebration. London: Collins, 1986.

Lerner, Alan Jay. The Street Where I Live. London: Hodder and Staughton, 1978.

Loney, Glenn, ed. Musical Theatre in America. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.

Mangan, Richard, ed. Gielgud’s Letters. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004.

Matthew-Walker, Robert. Broadway to Hollywood. London: Sanctuary Press, 1996.

McMillin, Scott. The Musical as Drama. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.

Miletich, Leo N. Broadway’s Prize-Winning Musicals: An Annotated Guide for Libraries and Audio Collectors. New York: Haworth Press, 1993.

Mordden, Ethan. Beautiful Mornin’: The Broadway Musical in the 1940s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Mordden, Ethan. Broadway Babies: The People Who Made the American Musical. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Mordden, Ethan. Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Morley, Sheridan. A Talent to Amuse: A Biography of Noël Coward. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975.

Nixon, Marni. I Could Have Sung All Night. New York: Billboard Books, 2006.

Pascal, Valerie. The Disciple and his Devil. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1970.

Payn, Graham, and Sheridan Morley, eds. The Noël Coward Diaries. London: Macmillan, 1982.

Rodgers, Richard. Musical Stages: An Autobiography. New York: Random House, 1975.

Rosen, Jody. White Christmas: The Story of an American Song. London: Fourth Estate, 2002.

Shapiro, Doris. We Danced All Night: My Life Behind the Scenes with Alan Jay Lerner. New York: Wm. Morrow, 1990.

Sorrell, Walter. Hanya Holm: The Biography of an Artist. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1969.

Stirling, Richard. Julie Andrews: An Intimate Biography. London: Portrait Books, 2007.

Strachan, Alan. Secret Dreams: A Biography of Michael Redgrave. London: Orion, 2004.

Steyn, Mark. Broadway Babies Say Goodnight: Musicals Then and Now. London: Faber, 1997.

Suskin, Steven. Opening Night on Broadway: A Critical Quotebook of the Golden Era of the Musical Theatre. New York: Schirmer, 1990.

Suskin, Steven. The Sound of Broadway Music: A Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Swain, Joseph P. The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Traubner, Richard. Operetta: A Theatrical History. New York: Doubleday, 1983.

Vickers, Hugo. Cecil Beaton: The Authorised Biography. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985.

Walker, Alexander. Fatal Charm: The Life of Rex Harrison. London: Orion, 2002.

White, Mark. You Must Remember This: Popular Songwriters 1900–80. London: Frederick Warne Publishers, 1983.

Wilk, Max. They’re Playing Our Song. New York: Viking, 1973.

Windeler, Robert. Julie Andrews: A Biography. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983.

Zinsser, William. Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and their Songs. Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine Publisher, 2000.

ARCHIVAL MATERIAL CONSULTED

Library of Congress, Washington DC:

Frederick Loewe Collection (by box/folder number):

5/1: Ascot Gavotte (3pp, Loewe autograph)

5/2: Come to the Ball (4pp, Loewe autograph)

5/3: Come to the Ball (11pp, Ozalid of copyist’s piano-vocal score, ann. in pencil)

5/4: Dear Little Fool (1p, Loewe autograph; lead sheet, no lyric)

5/5: Finale Act 1/(Procession—Embassy Waltz) (8pp, Loewe autograph)

5/6: Entr’acte (8pp, Loewe autograph)

5/7: Flower Market (5pp, Loewe autograph)

5/8: Get Me to the Church on Time (4pp, Loewe autograph)

5/9: A Hymn to Him (13pp, Loewe autograph)

5/10: I Could Have Danced All Night (inside cover: crossed out pp. 3–4 of early version of “Why Can’t the English?”) (7pp, Loewe autograph)

5/11: I’m an Ordinary Man (13pp, Loewe autograph)

5/12: I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face (13pp, Loewe autograph)

5/14: Just You Wait (8pp, Loewe autograph)

5/15: Lady Liza (1p, lead sheet); Liza—counterpoint (2pp, lead sheet) (Loewe autographs)

5/16: On the Street Where She Lives (inside cover: crossed out pp. 7–8 of early version of “Why Can’t the English”) (7pp, Loewe autograph)

5/17: Overture (2pp, Loewe autograph)

5/18: Please Don’t Marry Me (lead sheet) (3pp, Loewe autograph)

5/19: The Pygmalion Waltzes (Embassy Waltz) (7pp, Loewe autograph)

5/20: The Pygmalion Waltzes (4pp, Photocopy of copyist’s autograph piano score with ann. in pencil)

5/21: The Rain in Spain (5pp); The Servants’ Chorus (2pp) (Loewe autographs)

5/22: Show Me (inside cover: crossed out pp. 5–6 of early version “Why Can’t the English?”) (7pp, Loewe autograph)

5/23: Shy (3pp, Loewe autograph); Shy (4pp, Rittmann arrangement, Latin version)

5/24: There’s a Thing Called Love (lead sheet; typed lyric sheet laid in) (2pp, Loewe autograph)

5/25: What Is a Woman? (lead sheet) (1p, Loewe autograph)

5/26: Why Can’t the English? (inside cover: crossed out pp. 1–2 of early version of the same song, Rittmann arrangement) (10pp, Loewe autograph)

5/27: With a Little Bit of Luck (6pp, Loewe autograph)

5/29: Without You (7pp, Loewe autograph)

5/30: Wouldn’t It be Loverly? (5pp, Loewe autograph)

5/31: You Did It (23pp, Loewe autograph)

8/20: Limehouse (melody without lyric) (1p, Loewe autograph)

8/27: Over Your Head (melody without lyric) (1p, Loewe autograph)

8/36: The Son of the Wooden Soldier (1941); lyrics by John W. Bratton (5pp, published piano-vocal score)

8/37: There’s Always One You Can’t Forget (melody without lyric) (1p, Loewe autograph)

8/40: The Undeserving Poor (sketch) (1p, Loewe autograph)

8/44: What’s to Become of Me? (lead sheet; “There’s Always One” written below) (1p); Say Hello For Me (lead sheet without lyric) (1p); “What’s To Become of