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WHAT'S UP
LOEWE, Frederick and LERNER, Alan Jay. "WHAT'S UP?." Opened in New York, 1943. Produced by Mark Warnow, co-directed by George Balanchine.
ONE OF THE FIRST LERNER AND LOEWE BROADWAY COLLABORATIONS
What's Up? constitutes the second real collaborative effort of Lerner and Loewe who had first met in New York in mid-1942. It is preceded only by their last-minute work to complete Where's The Party, which opened in October 1942 and ran only nine weeks. The stageplay of What's Up?, by Lerner and Arthur Pierson is an improbable farce involving an Indian potentate, the Rawa of Tanglinia, whose plane and army crew, enroute to Washington D.C., is forced to land on the golf course of "Miss Langley's School for Girls, Crestville, Pennsylvania." The small extant archive from this not-very successful work contains one entire number, "Love Is A Step Ahead of Me" entirely in Loewe's autograph which may constitute THE EARLIEST SURVIVING MANUSCRIPT OF A LERNER & LOEWE SONG. Also present is Loewe's annotated copy of the script and copyist's final versions of three numbers, including "Love Is A Step Ahead of Me." (These mechanical copies of final scores were produced in very small numbers for the use of the signers and musicians during rehearsal; the manuscripts of which they are copies are rarely saved).
Total: 22 pages music plus a typescript, 77 pages.
Contents:
"Love Is A Step Ahead of Me," autograph manuscript piano-vocal score, with lyrics, by Loewe, 2 pages.
"Miss Langley's School for Girls," piano-vocal score, mechanical copy of copyist's ms., 3 pages
"Love Is A Step Ahead of Me," piano-vocal score, mechanical copy of copyist's ms., 3 copies, each 3 pages, one with name "Vicki Crandall" at top
"Just Then," piano-vocal score, mechanical copy of copyist's ms., 2 copies, each 4 pages.
{With:]
Mimeograph typescript of What's Up? 77 pages, 4to, bound with two brass clips. FREDERICK LOEWE'S COPY, signed "F. Loewe" at top of cover, and with pencilled notes on the cast page, listing the actors names and their vocal range (soprano, baritone) next to their part. Rare.
What's Up
LOEWE, Frederick and LERNER, Alan Jay. "WHAT'S UP?." Opened in New York, 1943. Produced by Mark Warnow, co-directed by George Balanchine.
ONE OF THE FIRST LERNER AND LOEWE BROADWAY COLLABORATIONS
What's Up? constitutes the second real collaborative effort of Lerner and Loewe who had first met in New York in mid-1942. It is preceded only by their last-minute work to complete Where's The Party, which opened in October 1942 and ran only nine weeks. The stageplay of What's Up?, by Lerner and Arthur Pierson is an improbable farce involving an Indian potentate, the Rawa of Tanglinia, whose plane and army crew, enroute to Washington D.C., is forced to land on the golf course of "Miss Langley's School for Girls, Crestville, Pennsylvania." The small extant archive from this not-very successful work contains one entire number, "Love Is A Step Ahead of Me" entirely in Loewe's autograph which may constitute THE EARLIEST SURVIVING MANUSCRIPT OF A LERNER & LOEWE SONG. Also present is Loewe's annotated copy of the script and copyist's final versions of three numbers, including "Love Is A Step Ahead of Me." (These mechanical copies of final scores were produced in very small numbers for the use of the signers and musicians during rehearsal; the manuscripts of which they are copies are rarely saved).
Total: 22 pages music plus a typescript, 77 pages.
Contents:
"Love Is A Step Ahead of Me," autograph manuscript piano-vocal score, with lyrics, by Loewe, 2 pages.
"Miss Langley's School for Girls," piano-vocal score, mechanical copy of copyist's ms., 3 pages
"Love Is A Step Ahead of Me," piano-vocal score, mechanical copy of copyist's ms., 3 copies, each 3 pages, one with name "Vicki Crandall" at top
"Just Then," piano-vocal score, mechanical copy of copyist's ms., 2 copies, each 4 pages.
{With:]
Mimeograph typescript of What's Up? 77 pages, 4to, bound with two brass clips. FREDERICK LOEWE'S COPY, signed "F. Loewe" at top of cover, and with pencilled notes on the cast page, listing the actors names and their vocal range (soprano, baritone) next to their part. Rare.
What's Up