The Wordsmiths: Oscar Hammerstein 2nd and Alan Jay Lerner

by StephenCitron (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1996

  $5.85

  This is a twin biography of two major players in the musical theatre, Oscar Hammerstein and Alan Jay Lerner. Between them, they created the lyrics to Show Boat , South Pacific and My Fair Lady . Hammerstein's roller-coaster life with its elation and depression is presented alongside Lerner's neurotic, drug-ridden existence with eight marriages.