Richard Adler

Also credited on13 works

The Pajama Game
Damn Yankees
Damn Yankees (1994 Revival)
Kwamina
Music Is
Fosse
Hello, Dolly!
Guys and Dolls
Company
South Pacific
Kismet
My Fair Lady
Kelly

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In the literature8 passages

• Sketches : Richard Adler, John Murray Anderson, Orson Bean, Herbert Farjeon, Phil Green, Leslie Julian Jones, Jean Kerr, Sumner Locke-Elliott, Arthur Macrae, Jerry Ross, Billy K. Wells, and Lauri WylieComplete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• Lyrics : Richard Adler, John Murray Anderson, Harry Belafonte, Michael Grace, Sheldon Harnick, Bart Howard, Joseph McCarthy Jr., Alan Melville, Jerry Ross, John Rox, and Carl TuckerComplete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• Music : Richard Adler, Harry Belafonte, Cy Coleman, Sammy Gallup, Sheldon Harnick, Bart Howard, Jerry Ross, John Rox, Henry Sullivan, and Charles ZwarComplete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• Earlier in the season, the novice team of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross had written a number of songs for the revue John Murray Anderson’s Almanac . Five months later, their score for the smash hit The Pajama Game offered a hit-parade-load of popular songs that included “Hey, There,” “Hernando’s Hideaway,” and “Steam Heat.” The musical bec…Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• The lighthearted book was full of amusing situations and one-liners, and Richard Adler and Jerry Ross provided another Pajama Game –styled score with a variety of clever and catchy songs, including the zippy opening number “Six Months Out of Every Year,” the barbershop quartet “Heart,” the mambo “Who’s Got the Pain?,” the western-styled h…Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• The real-life people associated with The Pajama Game were: George Abbott and Jerome Robbins (codirectors); Bob Fosse (choreographer); Richard Adler and Jerry Ross (the composers and lyricists); Frederick Brisson, Robert E. Griffith, and Harold S. Prince (coproducers); and John Raitt and Janis Paige (the leads).Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz

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