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| re: Micki Grant, a star and Tony-nominated writer of 'Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope,' dies at 80 | |
| Last Edit: Seth Christenfeld 05:13 pm EDT 08/23/21 | |
| Posted by: Seth Christenfeld (tabula-rasa@verizon.net) 05:13 pm EDT 08/23/21 | |
| In reply to: Micki Grant, a star and Tony-nominated writer of 'Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope,' dies at 80 - WaymanWong 04:04 pm EDT 08/22/21 | |
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| She has been cited as the first woman to write both the music and lyrics for a Broadway musical and the first woman to win a Grammy for the score of a Broadway musical. She was the first woman to write book, music, and lyrics to a Broadway musical; for the first woman to write music and lyrics, you have to go back to 1942's Count Me In, with music and lyrics by Ann Ronell. (I don't think anything predates that.) Seth, who had to check |
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| re: Micki Grant, a star and Tony-nominated writer of 'Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope,' dies at 80 | |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 08:25 pm EDT 08/23/21 | |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 08:09 pm EDT 08/23/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Micki Grant, a star and Tony-nominated writer of 'Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope,' dies at 80 - Seth Christenfeld 05:13 pm EDT 08/23/21 | |
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| Thanks, Seth. I took the citation of Grant being ''the first woman to write both the music and lyrics for a Broadway musical'' from news stories about her. And even Grant believed that, telling American Theatre in her final interview: ''I was the first female to do a score of a Broadway musical.'' But Wikipedia confirms Ann Ronell got there earlier: in 1942 with ''Count Me In,'' a revue with a book by Walter Kerr and Leo Brady. Its cast included Jean Arthur and Gower Champion. It ran for 61 shows and got poor reviews, prompting Sigmund Romberg to write Ronell a letter of consolation. ''Count Me In'' didn't appear to have produced any standards, but Ronell is best remembered for one she wrote in 1932: ''Willow, Weep for Me.'' It's been recorded by Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand, Frank Sinatra and even Chad & Jeremy, who had a top 20 hit with it in 1965. (And in 1933, Ronell and Frank Churchill co-wrote ''Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?'' for the Disney cartoon of ''Three Little Pigs.'') |
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