Word: librettist
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...DIED. ADOLPH GREEN, 87, lyricist, librettist, playwright and performer who co-wrote hit Broadway musicals such as On the Town and the screenplay for Singin' in the Rain during a 60-year partnership with Betty Comden; in Manhattan. The couple was artistically inseparable and gave postwar America its most memorable Manhattan geography lesson?"The Bronx is up and the Battery down"?in the lyrics to New York, New York (A Hell of a Town...
Jargon, indeed, was the theme of the ceremony. The world premiere of librettist Marc Abraham’s “The Jargon Opera” also amused the audience between the presentation of awards. The accompanist, Gregory Neil, was billed as the pianist “with a broken hand...