Lorenz Hart
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Lorenz Hart (May 2, 1895 - November 22, 1943) was the lyricist half of the famed Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Hart met composer Richard Rodgers in 1919, and the two wrote songs for a series of amateur and student productions until the smashing success of their score for the 1925 Theatre Guild production,"Garrick Gaieties", brought them to wider acclaim. They continued working together until Hart's death in 1943, along the way producing scores for a series of hit shows and making a substantial contribution to the Great American Songbook. Hart struggled with his own homosexuality (in an era when such a lifestyle was socially unacceptable) and with severe alcoholism, which eventually contibuted to his death.
Works include:
- 1920 Fly With Me
- 1925 The Garrick Gaieties
- 1926 The Girl Friend
- 1927 A Connecticut Yankee, based on the Mark Twain novel
- 1928 Present Arms
- 1935 Jumbo
- 1936 On Your Toes
- 1937 Babes in Arms
- 1938 The Boys from Syracuse, based on William Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors
- 1938 I Married an Angel
- 1938 Too Many Girls
- 1940 Pal Joey, based on John O'Hara work
- 1942 By Jupiter
External link
- Internet Broadway Database page for Lorenz Hart (http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?id=11244)