#frederickloewe — Public Fediverse posts

"Thank Heaven for Little Girls" is a 1957 song written by #AlanJayLerner and #FrederickLoewe and associated with #MauriceChevalier, its original performer. It opened and closed the 1958 film #Gigi. #AlfredDrake performed the song in the 1973 Broadway stage production of Gigi, and in the 2015 revival, it was sung as a duet between #VictoriaClark and #DeeHoty. The Chevalier version is often regarded as the definitive version of the song; he recorded it in 1958. In 2004.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TqSyvdqn9c

#OnThisDay in 1991, Revival of #AlanJayLerner and #FrederickLoewe's musical "Brigadoon" opens at New York State Theater, NYC; runs for 12 performances.

#OnThisDay in 1980, Revival of #AlanJayLerner and #FrederickLoewe's musical "Brigadoon" opens at the Majestic Theatre, New York City, and runs for 133 performances.

"I Could Have Danced All Night" is a song from the #musical #MyFairLady, with music written by #FrederickLoewe and lyrics by #AlanJayLerner, published in 1956. The song is sung by the musical's heroine, #ElizaDoolittle, expressing her exhilaration and excitement after an impromptu dance with her tutor, Henry Higgins, in the small hours of the morning. In a #counterpoint during the second of 3 rounds, two maids and the housekeeper, Mrs. Pearce, urge Eliza to go to bed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv-zMFVXj0Q

#OnThisDay in 1981, Revival of #AlanJayLerner and #FrederickLoewe's musical "My Fair Lady" opens at the Uris Theater in NYC and runs for 119 performances.