The Complete Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner

an astonishing achievement -- Peter Filichia, Music Theatre International This book is a must have for the musical theatre aficionado. And even if you aren't familiar with shows like The Day Before Spring or Lolita, My Love, it's still a pleasure just reading Lerner's witty, erudite, deeply emotionally, and playful lyrics. Masterfully arranged. Thoughtfully annotated. Great insight into the author's full oeuvre. -- Talkin Broadway Summing Up: Recommended. Researchers, faculty, and professionals; general readers. -- CHOICE I feel so lucky to have shared the street where he lived and, having reminisced far too much, commend Oxford University Press for bringing us this unique collection of Alan's work-including material that was cut 'out of town'-brilliantly and painstakingly researched by Dominic McHugh and Amy Asch. This treasure trove of lyrics is illuminated with fascinating insights and stories of how these great musicals were put together from the page to the stage. For anyone interested in the musical theatre, The Complete Lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner will have you entranced all night and still have you begging for more. -Sir Cameron Mackintosh Alan had no illusions about lyric writing. He viewed it as a craft and placed it somewhere between wood carving and photography. Which would place him, by my estimation, somewhere between Barbara Hepworth and Ansel Adams. -Liz Robertson, widow of Alan Jay Lerner The authoritative collection of one of America's most memorable and cherished lyricists. In addition to the impeccable 'no stone left unturned' scholarship of musical theater authorities Amy Asch and Dominic McHugh, general readers will delight in the informative, concise, perceptive, entertaining, and compulsively readable commentaries that introduce the dramatic contexts and nuances of each show and song. -Geoffrey Block, author of Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber (2009) and series editor of Oxford's Broadway Legacies