| re: Jesse Green's footnotes to SHY | |
| Posted by: jbk 08:43 pm EDT 08/16/22 | |
| In reply to: re: Jesse Green's footnotes to SHY - jerseymerle 07:37 pm EDT 08/16/22 | |
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| Mary Rodgers makes the point that "besides me, you could count the women who had produced scores for Broadway book musicals on the ring finger of your left hand: Kay Swift. Irma La Douce would introduce, and say farewell to, Marguerite Monnot, who had made a name writing for Piaf but was never heard from on Broadway again." Irma La Douce opened on Broadway in September, 1960 and ran for 524 performances; Marguerite Monnot died in October, 1961, three months before it closed. Her score for the show was acclaimed all over the world. It's quite unfair to cancel this achievement by a major female composer with a footnote that calls the show "creepy." | |
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