Richard Ney

Also credited on3 works

Portofino
Company
Dream

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature4 passages

• Direction : Karl Genus; Producer : Richard Ney; Choreography : Charles Weidman and Ray Harrison; Scenery : Wolfgang Roth; Costumes : Michael Travis; Lighting : Lee Watson; Musical Direction : Will IrwinComplete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• Act One: “Prologue” (lyric by Sheldon Harnick, music by Will Irwin) (Robert Strauss); Opening—“Come Along” (lyric by Sheldon Harnick, music by Will Irwin) (Company); “No Wedding Bells for Me” (lyric by Richard Ney, music by Will Irwin) (Georges Guetary); “Festa”/“Come Along” (reprise) (lyric by Sheldon Harnick, music by Will Irwin) (Compa…Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• Act Two: “Under a Spell” (reprise) (lyric by Richard Ney and Sheldon Harnick, music by Louis Bellson) (Georges Guetary, Girls); “That’s Love” (music uncredited, lyric by Richard Ney) (Georges Guetary, Company); “Too Little Time for Love” (lyric by Richard Ney, music by Will Irwin) (Webb Tilton); “Guido’s Tango” (music uncredited) (Robert…Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
• The program noted that four years before the musical was produced, Richard Ney had started writing Portofino as a straight play but eventually developed it into a musical. Ney, incidentally, had played Greer Garson’s son in the 1942 film Mrs. Miniver ; they were married the following year and divorced in 1947. Composer Louis Bellson was P…Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz

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