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Phyllis Newman
…for Barbara Harris in The Apple Tree (1966), in a revival of On the Town (1971), and in The Prisoner of Second Avenue (replacing Lee Grant in 1973). In 1979,…
Stanley Holloway
…are Shaw’s Major Barbara (1941), playing alongside Rex Harrison and Wendy Hiller; David Lean’s Brief Encounter (1945), based on Noël Coward’s Still Life; Nicholas Nickleby (1947), in which he played…
Stephen Schwartz
…Schwartz’s opera, Séance on a Wet Afternoon.Commissioned by Opera Santa Barbara in California, the opera, starring Lauren Flanigan, had its world premiere in September 2009. Schwartz serves on the ASCAP…
Lillian Roth
…girls-behind-bars flick starring a tough, gum-chewing Barbara Stanwyck. During the Depression years, Roth amassed a fortune. But despite her talent, fresh good looks, and support from the entertainment industry, Roth…
Goddard Lieberson
…Rice, lyrics by Langston Hughes, and music by Kurt Weill. Shortly thereafter, Lieberson released such classic Broadway musicals as Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific and Cole Porter’s Kiss Me Kate…