Coming in the Spring of 2018 ...
a concert
The Music of Lerner & Loewe
... and Loewe without Lerner there’s not enough room to tell you about it. ...and Lerner without Loewe If you’re not signed up for our mailing list, DO IT NOW so you don’t miss out! Friday, October 27, 2017 - 7:30 p.m. The Saturday Club 125 W. Kendal Street, Vacaville Samanticschoir.org Saturday, October 28 - 7:30 p.m. St. Clement’s Episcopal Church 2837 Claremont Boulevard, Berkeley Samantics Is a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization under the Regulations of the internal Revenue Service. All Contributions to Samantics Sunday, October 29 - 4:00 p.m. are tax-deductible to the Extent Provided by Law. First United Methodist Church 2100 J Street, Sacramento P.O. Box 5418 Vacaville, CA 95698 1983 DANCE A LITTLE CLOSER 1985 MY MAN GODFREY (music: Charles Strouse, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) (music: Gerard Kenny, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) Another Life Dancin’ My Blues Away Anyone Who Loves Don’t Do That Auf Wiedersehen Garbage Isn’t What It Used To Be Dance a Little Closer Happy Thanksgiving It Was You Again Happy, Happy New Year I’ve Been Married He Always Comes Home to Me Miss Hilary Bacon of Beacon Hill Homesick Some People I Don’t Know Try Love I Got a New Girl I Never Want To See You Again Lerner wrote few stand-alone songs, preferring the It Never Would’ve Worked character-driven form of theatre. Below: one with college Mad friends, two for movies, and two written for his last wife, Liz Robertson. No Man Is Worth It On Top of the World 1940 Between Friends Pas de deux (with Stanley Miller and Ted Straeter) There’s Always One You Can’t Forget There’s Never Been Anything Like Us 1978 It’s All for the Best (music: Jack Lemmon, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) What Are You Gonna Do About It? [played on the piano by Lemmon in the film TRIBUTE] Why Can’t the World Go and Leave Us Alone? A Woman Who Thinks I’m Wonderful
1984 Secret Places (film theme) (music: Michel Legrand, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner)
1985 Brocades and Coronets Somebody’s Girl (music: Gerard Kenny, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner)
1985 KENNEDY CENTER HONORS Merce Cunningham, Beverly Sills, Bob Hope Alan Jay Lerner, Irene Dunne, Frederick Loewe
ALAN JAY LERNER Lerner turned down both writing lyrics for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and creating the died June 14, 1986 English translation for LES MISÉRABLES due to his failing health. His last project, not completed, was a musicalization of the William Powell/Carole Lombard FREDERICK LOEWE screwball comedy, MY MAN GODFREY. died February 14, 1988 1974 THE LITTLE PRINCE (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) Be Happy Closer and Closer I Need Air I Never Met a Rose Samantics I’m on Your Side It’s a Hat Little Prince Vanessa Archuleta Ryan Ritter Matters of Consequence A Snake in the Grass Songs tried during or cut after Philadelphia previews: Danny Beldi John Reilly Saunders Why Is the Desert? American Dreaming You’re a Child Can You Love 2 Oscar nominations: Original Song Score and Jonathan Blum Lisa Singh Best Song (“Little Prince”) Carolina is Preparing to Secede The Grand Old Party Hail, James A. Garfield! / Hail, Arthur! The Honor of Your Presence Onalee Castelan Sara Smith It’s My Country (Mr. Lincoln) The Mark of a Man Sydney Christoffersen Quin Smith Me Middle C The Money-lovin’ Minstrel Parade Emily Clark Ayana Smith The Monroviad The Nation that Wasn’t There South Philadelphia Heather Clark Franchesca Sonoyama The Switch That House/This Time To Make Us Proud Anne Henly Jacob Tucker Uncle Tom’s Funeral The Voices that Live in the Wall Natalie Jones Matt Van Zandt 1976 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE We (music: Leonard Bernstein, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) What Happened? Auctions Julian LeForestier Orlana Van Zandt The Ball Bright and Black Duet for One (First Lady of the Land) 1979 CARMELINA Gary Levy Eddie Voyce Forty Acres and a Mule (music: Burton Lane, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) I Love This Land All That He Wants Me To Be Trella Malato JoAn Wade If I Was a Dove Carmelina It’s Gonna Be Great Church Christine Nicholson Madeleine Wieland The Little White Lie Come with Me to San Torino Lud’s Wedding (I Love My Wife) I Must Have Her On Ten Square Miles by the Potomac River I Wonder How She Looks Bob Rennicks Jackie Zipp Pity the Poor I’m a Woman Prelude The Image of Me Sam Schieber,Director The President Jefferson March The Image of You The Red, White and Blues It’s Time for a Love Song Rehearse! Mayor’s Prologue Samantics is a non-profit singing group that exists to build public appreciation for The Robber-Baron Minstrel Parade One More Walk Around the Garden the widest possible range of vocal music through performance and education. Seena Prayer Founded in 2009, the 30-person chorus hails from Sacramento, West Sacramento, Sonatina (Allegro; Menuetto; Rondo) Signora Campbell Natomas, Galt, Vacaville, Fairfield, Benicia and Vallejo, and performs throughout Take Care of This House Someone in April the greater Sacramento Valley and the Bay Area. For each concert, Samantics We Must Have a Ball Why Him? strives to provide an entertaining mixture of music ranging from classical to Welcome Home, Miz Adams Yankee Doodles Are Coming to Town Vaudeville, ensuring that a Samantics concert is like no other. 1971 LOLITA, MY LOVE (music: John Barry, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) All You Can Do Is Tell Me You Love Me At the Bed-D-By Motel Beardsley School for Girls Buckin’ for Beardsley Charlotte’s Letter Dante, Petrarch and Poe Farewell, Little Dream, Goodbye Going, Going, Gone Have You Got What You Came With? How Far Is It to the Next Town? I Always Believe Me 1969 COCO (music: Andre Previn, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) I Must Have Her Always Mademoiselle In the Broken Promise Land of Fifteen A Brand New Dress Lolita But That’s the Way You Are March Out of My Life Coco The Same Old Song Fiasco Saturday Gabrielle Sur Les Quais de Ramsdale, Vermont Let’s Go Home Tell Me, Tell Me Mademoiselle Cliché de Paris Songs cut during Boston tryout: The Money Rings Out Like Freedom I Found You at Last On the Corner of the Rue Cambon If It Ain’t Fun Orbach’s Bloomingdale’s, Best and Saks It’s a Bad, Bad World The Preparation Mother Needs a Boyfriend When Your Lover Says Goodbye A Woman Is How She Loves The World Belongs to the Young Songs cut during previews: Someone on Your Side Turn on the Lights
1973 GIGI (Broadway) (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) The Contract The Earth and Other Minor Things I Never Want To Go Home Again In this Wide, Wide World COCO was nominated for 7 Tony Awards, including Best Paris Is Paris Again Actress (Hepburn) and Best Musical, winning only 2 for The Telephone Supporting Actor and, Song cut during previews: ironically, costumes–which Da Da Da Da were created by MY FAIR GIGI was nominated for 4 Tony Awards, including Best LADY designer Cecil Beaton! Actor (Alfred Drake), Costumes and Scenery, winning only 1 for Best Score for a Musical to Lerner & Loewe. Songs cut during Boston tryout, as was the leading man: Dolly’s Seduction Marriage a la Mode Mom The Normal Thing To Do [songs intended, tried briefly or added to the tour] Domestic Champagne Waltz I’ll Not Marry Love Did Me In Solicitor’s Song 1961-63 I PICKED A DAISY When I Come Around Again (music: Richard Rodgers, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) Yankee Doodle Come Back To Me [Barbara Harris, John Cullum and Lerner & Lane’s score were nominated for Tony Awards] I Picked a Daisy Who Is There Among Us Who Knows? 1970 ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN After Loewe’s retirement following CAMELOT, and Oscar Hammerstein’s death after the opening of THE SOUND SEE FOREVER (film) OF MUSIC, Lerner teamed with Richard Rodgers to write (music: Burton Lane, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) a new show, I PICKED A DAISY. The pairing did not go Songs added to the film, not including those co-opted well and little was produced. Lerner later re-used some from the psychiatrist’s role by Streisand: of his writing in the newly-titled reworking of the same Go to Sleep story with former partner, Burton Lane. He Isn’t You [new lyric] Love With All the Trimmings Songs filmed, but cut after previews: Thank God for People Like Me Who Is There Among Us?
1965 ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (music: Burton Lane, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) At the Hellrakers’ Come Back to Me Don’t Tamper with My Sister Hurry! It’s Lovely Up Here! Melinda 1969 PAINT YOUR WAGON (film) (music: Andre Previn, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) On a Clear Day You Can See Forever [when Loewe declined on adding songs for the film, On the S.S. Bernard Cohn Previn provided the music] Ring Out the Bells Best Things She Wasn’t You The First Thing You Know Tosy and Cosh Gold Fever Wait ‘Til We’re Sixty-Five The Gospel of No Name City What Did I Have that I Don’t Have? A Million Miles Away Behind the Door When I’m Being Born Again 1 Oscar nomination for Adapted Score CAMELOT Camelot C’est Moi C’est Follow Me Guenevere The Quests Face to The Persuasion 1960 Fie on Goodness! The Jousts/Parade The Lusty Month of May How To Handle a Woman What Do Simple Folk Do? If Ever I Would Leave You The Seven Deadly Virtues Songs cut before or after opening: Before I Gaze at You Again I Loved You Once in Silence
The Simple Joys of Maidenhood Then You May Take Me to the Fair I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) Jay Alan lyrics: Loewe, Frederick (music: The pro- Broadway duction gleaned 5 Tony Awards and won 4: Best Actor for Richard Burton, scenery, costumes Director. Music and short film, 1968 The several songs, was nominated for Oscars, winning 5 3 for sets, costumes scoring. and
nelli (director) [Oscar for Best Song] Best for [Oscar (film)
, Vincente Min , Music Scoring (Andre Scoring Music , Academy Awards and won Awards Academy BEST PICTURE GIGI Gossip À Toujours It’s a Bore! It’s
The Parisians Best Song (“Gigi,” to Lerner & Loewe), & Lerner to (“Gigi,” Song Best 1958 Gaston’s Soliloquy Gaston’s I Remember It Well Previn) and Previn) Say a Prayer for Me Tonight Thank Heaven for Little Girls Maurice Chevalier (star), Arthur Freed (producer), Freed Arthur (star), Chevalier Maurice I’m Glad I’m Not Young Anymore Glad I’m I’m Best Screenplay (Lerner) Screenplay Best GIGI was nominated for 9 GIGI was Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner Alan Jay Frederick Loewe, all 9, including including 9, all The Night They Invented Champagne (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) Jay Alan lyrics: Loewe, Frederick (music: at Maxim’s She Is Not Thinking of Me/Waltz Gigi
yric: Earle Crooker) yric: yrics: Earle Crooker) yrics: LOEWE WITHOUT Rhumba April Day Somehow Love Is Hurdy-Gurdy Salute to Spring SALUTE TO SPRING Time Off for Love Cheer for Choate Today
A Very Charming Spot THE ILLUSTRATORS’ SHOW [alsoused in SALUTE TO SPRING] 1937 Extraordinary High Pressure A Waltz Was Born in Vienna A Waltz Was Born in Vienna 1935 One Robin Doesn’t Make a Spring One Robin Doesn’t School football song, Lerner’s earliest known work known earliest Lerner’s song, football School
1936 (music: Frederick Loewe, l (music: Frederick Loewe, (music: Frederick Loewe, l (music: Frederick Loewe, (music and lyric: Alan Lerner and Carlton Tobey) Carlton and Lerner Alan lyric: and (music
Musical Timeline for Alan Jay (film) (Gilbert) (Schwabach) (Winterfield) Kathrin
soloist with (Neubach) (Loewe) 1923 (lyric: R. H. Winter) (lyric: sells one million 1914 Berlin Symphony LERNER & LOEWE (Neubach) sheet music copies (Alfred du Bynne / Al Dubin) (Alfred du Bynne Somehow (Neubach) (song titles in italics) PETTICOAT FEVER ALAN JAY LERNER FREDERICK LOEWE THE LIFE OF PARTY born June 10, 1901, Berlin
Dunkelrode Rosen Ach Schatz - noch einmal Ach Schatz Hier wird nicht jedrängelt ja! Sag’ Love Is Blind Es hat ja doch jeder seine eig'ne ja doch jeder seine eig'ne hat Es leise moglichst sei Dich bitt ich Schatz schönste Grunewaldsee der mir Was nützt 1935
One Robin Doesn’t Make a Spring One Robin Doesn’t Love Tiptoed Through My Heart Songs cut before release, later used in SALUTE TO SALUTE in used later release, before cut Songs (music: Frederick Loewe, lyric: Irene Alexander) lyric: (music: Frederick Loewe, SPRING and stage version of LIFE OF THE PARTY: THE OF LIFE of version stage and SPRING other early songs by “Fritz Loewe” songs by other early 1930 1925
1922 1923 1924 1926 born August 31, 1918, New York City YorkNew 1918, 31, August born 1951 PAINT YOUR WAGON Lerner and Frederick Loewe (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) All for Him LERNER LERNER WITHOUT LOEWE Another Autumn 1939 FAIR ENOUGH Carino Mio (music and lyrics: Alan Lerner, *music: David Lannon) Hand Me Down That Can o’ Beans [Harvard Hasty Pudding Club] Blame It on Conchita* How Can I Wait? Blue Ribbon Jury* I Still See Elisa Fair Enough I Talk to the Trees From Me to You I’m On My Way Home Made Heaven In Between Movin’ Rumson 1956 MY FAIR LADY The Strike! (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) There’s a Coach Comin’ In Ascot Gavotte They Call the Wind Maria Get Me to the Church on Time A Hymn to Him Trio (Mormons’ Prayer) I Could Have Danced All Night Wand’rin’ Star I’m an Ordinary Man What’s Goin’ On Here? I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face Whoop-Ti-Ay! Just You Wait Songs not used or cut before opening: On the Street Where You Live Finale - Gloria The Rain in Spain 1938 SO PROUDLY WE HAIL Muchee Good World Poor Professor Higgins (music and lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) Sh! Show Me [Harvard Hasty Pudding Club] Take the Wheels off the Wagon Why Can’t the English? Chance To Dream What Do Other Folks Do? With a Little Bit of Luck Going to a Party Without You Livin’ the Life Wouldn’t It Be Loverly? Man About Town You Did It Something New for a Change Songs not used or cut before opening: 1942 The Barrendero Come to the Ball (music: Frederick Loewe, lyric: James Tranter) Decorating Eliza Lady Liza 1938 GREAT LADY Please Don’t Marry Me (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Earle Crooker) 1942 LIFE OF THE PARTY Say a Prayer for Me Tonight [used in GIGI] And So Will You (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Earle Crooker, Shy I Have Room in My Heart *Raymond Knight, book and additional lyrics: Lerner) Alone in a Crowd The original stage production was I Never Saw a King Before nominated for 10 Tony awards, win- El Rancho In the Carefree Realm of Fancy ning 6: Actor (Rex Harrison), Director The Hand Me Down (Moss Hart), Conductor, Scenery, Keep Your Hand on My Heart Costumes and BEST MUSICAL. Hot Gavotte The 1964 film version, a faithful The Little Corporal I’ll Tell the World adaptation of the stage show with no Madame Is at Home song changes, received 12 Academy Let’s Waltz and Whistle Award nominations, including Best May I Suggest Romance? Life of the Party Screenplay for Lerner, and won 8, A Promenade including Best Actor (Harrison), No Olive in My Martini Music Score Adaptation (Andre Sisters Under the Skin Previn), and BEST PICTURE. One Robin Doesn’t Make a Spring Sweet William Please* There Had To Be the Waltz Somehow 1957 Lonely Men of Harvard Though Tongues May Wag Sunny Day 1953 THE BAND WAGON (film) Dedication To Whom It May Concern ”The Girl Hunt” Ballet narration written by (music: Leonard Bernstein, lyric: Alan Jay Lerner) Wearin’ the Grin Alan Jay Lerner (uncredited) [written for Carnegie Hall benefit concert] Why Can’t This Last Forever? The West Is Best 1947 BRIGADOON 1948 LOVE LIFE (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) (music: Kurt Weill, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) Almost Like Being in Love Economics Brigadoon Green-Up Time Come to Me, Bend to Me Here I’ll Stay Down on MacConnachy Square Ho, Billy O! From This Day On I Remember It Well Go Back to the Hills I’m Your Man The Heather on the Hill Is It Him or Is It Me? Love Madame Zuzu I’ll Go Home with Bonnie Jean Minstrel Parade Jeannie’s Packin’ Up The Love of My Life My Mother’s Wedding Day Once in the Highlands Mother’s Getting Nervous 1951 ROYAL WEDDING (film) 1943 WHAT’S UP? There But for You Go I Mr. Right (music: Burton Lane, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) Waitin’ for My Dearie My Kind of Night Ev’ry Night at Seven From the Chimney to the Cellar Song added for the 1980 revival: My Name is Samuel Cooper The Happiest Day of My Life Go Back to the Hills A Girl Is Like a Book Progress How Could You Believe Me . . . ? How Fly Times Taking No Chances I Left My Hat in Haiti The Ill-Tempered Clavichord This Is the Life Open Your Eyes Joshua Who Is Samuel Cooper Sunday Jumps Women’s Club Blues Just Then Too Late Now [Oscar nomination] You Understand Me So Love Is a Step Ahead of Me What A Lovely Day for a Wedding Miss Langley’s School for Girls You’re All the World To Me My Last Love Natural Life Three Girls in a Boat You Wash, I’ll Dry You’ve Got a Hold on Me
1945 THE DAY BEFORE SPRING (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) The Day Before Spring 1951 AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (film) Friends to the End (screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner) 8 Oscar nominations, 6 wins, including God’s Green World Best Screenplay and BEST PICTURE I Love You this Morning Songs cut during rehearsal or before opening: The Invitation Can’t We Have a Rally? Cop’s Serenade A Jug of Wine 1951 HUCKLEBERRY FINN Csardas Katharine Receives Advice (music: Burton Lane, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) A Home of Our Own My Love Is a Married Man [unproduced film project for Danny Kaye and Gene Kelly] I Love My Work Asparagus Is Served This Is My Holiday The Locker Room Where’s My Wife? Headin’ for New Orleans Reality! Huckleberry Finn You Haven’t Changed at All Susan’s Dream I Ain’t Never Felt So Good Before There’s Nothing Left for Daddy (But the Rhumba) I’ll Meet You Down by the River Viva the Women! I’m from Missouri We’re Selling Sunshine Pittsburgh Blue c. 1946 Bedrooms What More Do I Want? When You Grow Up You’ll Know (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) Where Do I Belong? The World’s Full o’ Suckers 1947 BRIGADOON 1948 LOVE LIFE (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) (music: Kurt Weill, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) Almost Like Being in Love Economics Brigadoon Green-Up Time Come to Me, Bend to Me Here I’ll Stay Down on MacConnachy Square Ho, Billy O! From This Day On I Remember It Well Go Back to the Hills I’m Your Man The Heather on the Hill Is It Him or Is It Me? Love Madame Zuzu I’ll Go Home with Bonnie Jean Minstrel Parade Jeannie’s Packin’ Up The Love of My Life My Mother’s Wedding Day Once in the Highlands Mother’s Getting Nervous 1951 ROYAL WEDDING (film) 1943 WHAT’S UP? There But for You Go I Mr. Right (music: Burton Lane, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) Waitin’ for My Dearie My Kind of Night Ev’ry Night at Seven From the Chimney to the Cellar Song added for the 1980 revival: My Name is Samuel Cooper The Happiest Day of My Life Go Back to the Hills A Girl Is Like a Book Progress How Could You Believe Me . . . ? How Fly Times Taking No Chances I Left My Hat in Haiti The Ill-Tempered Clavichord This Is the Life Open Your Eyes Joshua Who Is Samuel Cooper Sunday Jumps Women’s Club Blues Just Then Too Late Now [Oscar nomination] You Understand Me So Love Is a Step Ahead of Me What A Lovely Day for a Wedding Miss Langley’s School for Girls You’re All the World To Me My Last Love Natural Life Three Girls in a Boat You Wash, I’ll Dry You’ve Got a Hold on Me
1945 THE DAY BEFORE SPRING (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) The Day Before Spring 1951 AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (film) Friends to the End (screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner) 8 Oscar nominations, 6 wins, including God’s Green World Best Screenplay and BEST PICTURE I Love You this Morning Songs cut during rehearsal or before opening: The Invitation Can’t We Have a Rally? Cop’s Serenade A Jug of Wine 1951 HUCKLEBERRY FINN Csardas Katharine Receives Advice (music: Burton Lane, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) A Home of Our Own My Love Is a Married Man [unproduced film project for Danny Kaye and Gene Kelly] I Love My Work Asparagus Is Served This Is My Holiday The Locker Room Where’s My Wife? Headin’ for New Orleans Reality! Huckleberry Finn You Haven’t Changed at All Susan’s Dream I Ain’t Never Felt So Good Before There’s Nothing Left for Daddy (But the Rhumba) I’ll Meet You Down by the River Viva the Women! I’m from Missouri We’re Selling Sunshine Pittsburgh Blue c. 1946 Bedrooms What More Do I Want? When You Grow Up You’ll Know (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) Where Do I Belong? The World’s Full o’ Suckers 1951 PAINT YOUR WAGON Lerner and Frederick Loewe (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) All for Him LERNER LERNER WITHOUT LOEWE Another Autumn 1939 FAIR ENOUGH Carino Mio (music and lyrics: Alan Lerner, *music: David Lannon) Hand Me Down That Can o’ Beans [Harvard Hasty Pudding Club] Blame It on Conchita* How Can I Wait? Blue Ribbon Jury* I Still See Elisa Fair Enough I Talk to the Trees From Me to You I’m On My Way Home Made Heaven In Between Movin’ Rumson 1956 MY FAIR LADY The Strike! (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) There’s a Coach Comin’ In Ascot Gavotte They Call the Wind Maria Get Me to the Church on Time A Hymn to Him Trio (Mormons’ Prayer) I Could Have Danced All Night Wand’rin’ Star I’m an Ordinary Man What’s Goin’ On Here? I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face Whoop-Ti-Ay! Just You Wait Songs not used or cut before opening: On the Street Where You Live Finale - Gloria The Rain in Spain 1938 SO PROUDLY WE HAIL Muchee Good World Poor Professor Higgins (music and lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) Sh! Show Me [Harvard Hasty Pudding Club] Take the Wheels off the Wagon Why Can’t the English? Chance To Dream What Do Other Folks Do? With a Little Bit of Luck Going to a Party Without You Livin’ the Life Wouldn’t It Be Loverly? Man About Town You Did It Something New for a Change Songs not used or cut before opening: 1942 The Barrendero Come to the Ball (music: Frederick Loewe, lyric: James Tranter) Decorating Eliza Lady Liza 1938 GREAT LADY Please Don’t Marry Me (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Earle Crooker) 1942 LIFE OF THE PARTY Say a Prayer for Me Tonight [used in GIGI] And So Will You (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Earle Crooker, Shy I Have Room in My Heart *Raymond Knight, book and additional lyrics: Lerner) Alone in a Crowd The original stage production was I Never Saw a King Before nominated for 10 Tony awards, win- El Rancho In the Carefree Realm of Fancy ning 6: Actor (Rex Harrison), Director The Hand Me Down (Moss Hart), Conductor, Scenery, Keep Your Hand on My Heart Costumes and BEST MUSICAL. Hot Gavotte The 1964 film version, a faithful The Little Corporal I’ll Tell the World adaptation of the stage show with no Madame Is at Home song changes, received 12 Academy Let’s Waltz and Whistle Award nominations, including Best May I Suggest Romance? Life of the Party Screenplay for Lerner, and won 8, A Promenade including Best Actor (Harrison), No Olive in My Martini Music Score Adaptation (Andre Sisters Under the Skin Previn), and BEST PICTURE. One Robin Doesn’t Make a Spring Sweet William Please* There Had To Be the Waltz Somehow 1957 Lonely Men of Harvard Though Tongues May Wag Sunny Day 1953 THE BAND WAGON (film) Dedication To Whom It May Concern ”The Girl Hunt” Ballet narration written by (music: Leonard Bernstein, lyric: Alan Jay Lerner) Wearin’ the Grin Alan Jay Lerner (uncredited) [written for Carnegie Hall benefit concert] Why Can’t This Last Forever? The West Is Best CAMELOT Camelot C’est Moi C’est Follow Me Guenevere The Quests Face to The Persuasion 1960 Fie on Goodness! The Jousts/Parade The Lusty Month of May How To Handle a Woman What Do Simple Folk Do? If Ever I Would Leave You The Seven Deadly Virtues Songs cut before or after opening: Before I Gaze at You Again I Loved You Once in Silence
The Simple Joys of Maidenhood Then You May Take Me to the Fair I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) Jay Alan lyrics: Loewe, Frederick (music: The pro- Broadway duction gleaned 5 Tony Awards and won 4: Best Actor for Richard Burton, scenery, costumes Director. Music and short film, 1968 The several songs, was nominated for Oscars, winning 5 3 for sets, costumes scoring. and
nelli (director) [Oscar for Best Song] Best for [Oscar (film)
, Vincente Min , Music Scoring (Andre Scoring Music , Academy Awards and won Awards Academy BEST PICTURE GIGI Gossip À Toujours It’s a Bore! It’s
The Parisians Best Song (“Gigi,” to Lerner & Loewe), & Lerner to (“Gigi,” Song Best 1958 Gaston’s Soliloquy Gaston’s I Remember It Well Previn) and Previn) Say a Prayer for Me Tonight Thank Heaven for Little Girls Maurice Chevalier (star), Arthur Freed (producer), Freed Arthur (star), Chevalier Maurice I’m Glad I’m Not Young Anymore Glad I’m I’m Best Screenplay (Lerner) Screenplay Best GIGI was nominated for 9 GIGI was Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner Alan Jay Frederick Loewe, all 9, including including 9, all The Night They Invented Champagne (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) Jay Alan lyrics: Loewe, Frederick (music: at Maxim’s She Is Not Thinking of Me/Waltz Gigi
yric: Earle Crooker) yric: yrics: Earle Crooker) yrics: LOEWE WITHOUT Rhumba April Day Somehow Love Is Hurdy-Gurdy Salute to Spring SALUTE TO SPRING Time Off for Love Cheer for Choate Today
A Very Charming Spot THE ILLUSTRATORS’ SHOW [alsoused in SALUTE TO SPRING] 1937 Extraordinary High Pressure A Waltz Was Born in Vienna A Waltz Was Born in Vienna 1935 One Robin Doesn’t Make a Spring One Robin Doesn’t School football song, Lerner’s earliest known work known earliest Lerner’s song, football School
1936 (music: Frederick Loewe, l (music: Frederick Loewe, (music: Frederick Loewe, l (music: Frederick Loewe, (music and lyric: Alan Lerner and Carlton Tobey) Carlton and Lerner Alan lyric: and (music
Musical Timeline for Alan Jay (film) (Gilbert) (Schwabach) (Winterfield) Kathrin
soloist with (Neubach) (Loewe) 1923 (lyric: R. H. Winter) (lyric: sells one million 1914 Berlin Symphony LERNER & LOEWE (Neubach) sheet music copies (Alfred du Bynne / Al Dubin) (Alfred du Bynne Somehow (Neubach) (song titles in italics) PETTICOAT FEVER ALAN JAY LERNER FREDERICK LOEWE THE LIFE OF PARTY born June 10, 1901, Berlin
Dunkelrode Rosen Ach Schatz - noch einmal Ach Schatz Hier wird nicht jedrängelt ja! Sag’ Love Is Blind Es hat ja doch jeder seine eig'ne ja doch jeder seine eig'ne hat Es leise moglichst sei Dich bitt ich Schatz schönste Grunewaldsee der mir Was nützt 1935
One Robin Doesn’t Make a Spring One Robin Doesn’t Love Tiptoed Through My Heart Songs cut before release, later used in SALUTE TO SALUTE in used later release, before cut Songs (music: Frederick Loewe, lyric: Irene Alexander) lyric: (music: Frederick Loewe, SPRING and stage version of LIFE OF THE PARTY: THE OF LIFE of version stage and SPRING other early songs by “Fritz Loewe” songs by other early 1930 1925
1922 1923 1924 1926 born August 31, 1918, New York City YorkNew 1918, 31, August born Songs cut during Boston tryout, as was the leading man: Dolly’s Seduction Marriage a la Mode Mom The Normal Thing To Do [songs intended, tried briefly or added to the tour] Domestic Champagne Waltz I’ll Not Marry Love Did Me In Solicitor’s Song 1961-63 I PICKED A DAISY When I Come Around Again (music: Richard Rodgers, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) Yankee Doodle Come Back To Me [Barbara Harris, John Cullum and Lerner & Lane’s score were nominated for Tony Awards] I Picked a Daisy Who Is There Among Us Who Knows? 1970 ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN After Loewe’s retirement following CAMELOT, and Oscar Hammerstein’s death after the opening of THE SOUND SEE FOREVER (film) OF MUSIC, Lerner teamed with Richard Rodgers to write (music: Burton Lane, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) a new show, I PICKED A DAISY. The pairing did not go Songs added to the film, not including those co-opted well and little was produced. Lerner later re-used some from the psychiatrist’s role by Streisand: of his writing in the newly-titled reworking of the same Go to Sleep story with former partner, Burton Lane. He Isn’t You [new lyric] Love With All the Trimmings Songs filmed, but cut after previews: Thank God for People Like Me Who Is There Among Us?
1965 ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (music: Burton Lane, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) At the Hellrakers’ Come Back to Me Don’t Tamper with My Sister Hurry! It’s Lovely Up Here! Melinda 1969 PAINT YOUR WAGON (film) (music: Andre Previn, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) On a Clear Day You Can See Forever [when Loewe declined on adding songs for the film, On the S.S. Bernard Cohn Previn provided the music] Ring Out the Bells Best Things She Wasn’t You The First Thing You Know Tosy and Cosh Gold Fever Wait ‘Til We’re Sixty-Five The Gospel of No Name City What Did I Have that I Don’t Have? A Million Miles Away Behind the Door When I’m Being Born Again 1 Oscar nomination for Adapted Score 1971 LOLITA, MY LOVE (music: John Barry, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) All You Can Do Is Tell Me You Love Me At the Bed-D-By Motel Beardsley School for Girls Buckin’ for Beardsley Charlotte’s Letter Dante, Petrarch and Poe Farewell, Little Dream, Goodbye Going, Going, Gone Have You Got What You Came With? How Far Is It to the Next Town? I Always Believe Me 1969 COCO (music: Andre Previn, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) I Must Have Her Always Mademoiselle In the Broken Promise Land of Fifteen A Brand New Dress Lolita But That’s the Way You Are March Out of My Life Coco The Same Old Song Fiasco Saturday Gabrielle Sur Les Quais de Ramsdale, Vermont Let’s Go Home Tell Me, Tell Me Mademoiselle Cliché de Paris Songs cut during Boston tryout: The Money Rings Out Like Freedom I Found You at Last On the Corner of the Rue Cambon If It Ain’t Fun Orbach’s Bloomingdale’s, Best and Saks It’s a Bad, Bad World The Preparation Mother Needs a Boyfriend When Your Lover Says Goodbye A Woman Is How She Loves The World Belongs to the Young Songs cut during previews: Someone on Your Side Turn on the Lights
1973 GIGI (Broadway) (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) The Contract The Earth and Other Minor Things I Never Want To Go Home Again In this Wide, Wide World COCO was nominated for 7 Tony Awards, including Best Paris Is Paris Again Actress (Hepburn) and Best Musical, winning only 2 for The Telephone Supporting Actor and, Song cut during previews: ironically, costumes–which Da Da Da Da were created by MY FAIR GIGI was nominated for 4 Tony Awards, including Best LADY designer Cecil Beaton! Actor (Alfred Drake), Costumes and Scenery, winning only 1 for Best Score for a Musical to Lerner & Loewe. 1974 THE LITTLE PRINCE (music: Frederick Loewe, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) Be Happy Closer and Closer I Need Air I Never Met a Rose Samantics I’m on Your Side It’s a Hat Little Prince Vanessa Archuleta Ryan Ritter Matters of Consequence A Snake in the Grass Songs tried during or cut after Philadelphia previews: Danny Beldi John Reilly Saunders Why Is the Desert? American Dreaming You’re a Child Can You Love 2 Oscar nominations: Original Song Score and Jonathan Blum Lisa Singh Best Song (“Little Prince”) Carolina is Preparing to Secede The Grand Old Party Hail, James A. Garfield! / Hail, Arthur! The Honor of Your Presence Onalee Castelan Sara Smith It’s My Country (Mr. Lincoln) The Mark of a Man Sydney Christoffersen Quin Smith Me Middle C The Money-lovin’ Minstrel Parade Emily Clark Ayana Smith The Monroviad The Nation that Wasn’t There South Philadelphia Heather Clark Franchesca Sonoyama The Switch That House/This Time To Make Us Proud Anne Henly Jacob Tucker Uncle Tom’s Funeral The Voices that Live in the Wall Natalie Jones Matt Van Zandt 1976 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE We (music: Leonard Bernstein, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) What Happened? Auctions Julian LeForestier Orlana Van Zandt The Ball Bright and Black Duet for One (First Lady of the Land) 1979 CARMELINA Gary Levy Eddie Voyce Forty Acres and a Mule (music: Burton Lane, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) I Love This Land All That He Wants Me To Be Trella Malato JoAn Wade If I Was a Dove Carmelina It’s Gonna Be Great Church Christine Nicholson Madeleine Wieland The Little White Lie Come with Me to San Torino Lud’s Wedding (I Love My Wife) I Must Have Her On Ten Square Miles by the Potomac River I Wonder How She Looks Bob Rennicks Jackie Zipp Pity the Poor I’m a Woman Prelude The Image of Me Sam Schieber,Director The President Jefferson March The Image of You The Red, White and Blues It’s Time for a Love Song Rehearse! Mayor’s Prologue Samantics is a non-profit singing group that exists to build public appreciation for The Robber-Baron Minstrel Parade One More Walk Around the Garden the widest possible range of vocal music through performance and education. Seena Prayer Founded in 2009, the 30-person chorus hails from Sacramento, West Sacramento, Sonatina (Allegro; Menuetto; Rondo) Signora Campbell Natomas, Galt, Vacaville, Fairfield, Benicia and Vallejo, and performs throughout Take Care of This House Someone in April the greater Sacramento Valley and the Bay Area. For each concert, Samantics We Must Have a Ball Why Him? strives to provide an entertaining mixture of music ranging from classical to Welcome Home, Miz Adams Yankee Doodles Are Coming to Town Vaudeville, ensuring that a Samantics concert is like no other. 1983 DANCE A LITTLE CLOSER 1985 MY MAN GODFREY (music: Charles Strouse, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) (music: Gerard Kenny, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) Another Life Dancin’ My Blues Away Anyone Who Loves Don’t Do That Auf Wiedersehen Garbage Isn’t What It Used To Be Dance a Little Closer Happy Thanksgiving It Was You Again Happy, Happy New Year I’ve Been Married He Always Comes Home to Me Miss Hilary Bacon of Beacon Hill Homesick Some People I Don’t Know Try Love I Got a New Girl I Never Want To See You Again Lerner wrote few stand-alone songs, preferring the It Never Would’ve Worked character-driven form of theatre. Below: one with college Mad friends, two for movies, and two written for his last wife, Liz Robertson. No Man Is Worth It On Top of the World 1940 Between Friends Pas de deux (with Stanley Miller and Ted Straeter) There’s Always One You Can’t Forget There’s Never Been Anything Like Us 1978 It’s All for the Best (music: Jack Lemmon, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner) What Are You Gonna Do About It? [played on the piano by Lemmon in the film TRIBUTE] Why Can’t the World Go and Leave Us Alone? A Woman Who Thinks I’m Wonderful
1984 Secret Places (film theme) (music: Michel Legrand, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner)
1985 Brocades and Coronets Somebody’s Girl (music: Gerard Kenny, lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner)
1985 KENNEDY CENTER HONORS Merce Cunningham, Beverly Sills, Bob Hope Alan Jay Lerner, Irene Dunne, Frederick Loewe
ALAN JAY LERNER Lerner turned down both writing lyrics for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and creating the died June 14, 1986 English translation for LES MISÉRABLES due to his failing health. His last project, not completed, was a musicalization of the William Powell/Carole Lombard FREDERICK LOEWE screwball comedy, MY MAN GODFREY. died February 14, 1988 Coming in the Spring of 2018 ...
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The Music of Lerner & Loewe
... and Loewe without Lerner there’s not enough room to tell you about it. ...and Lerner without Loewe If you’re not signed up for our mailing list, DO IT NOW so you don’t miss out! Friday, October 27, 2017 - 7:30 p.m. The Saturday Club 125 W. Kendal Street, Vacaville Samanticschoir.org Saturday, October 28 - 7:30 p.m. St. Clement’s Episcopal Church 2837 Claremont Boulevard, Berkeley Samantics Is a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Organization under the Regulations of the internal Revenue Service. All Contributions to Samantics Sunday, October 29 - 4:00 p.m. are tax-deductible to the Extent Provided by Law. First United Methodist Church 2100 J Street, Sacramento P.O. Box 5418 Vacaville, CA 95698