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Loverly:The Life and Times of My Fair Lady (Broadway Legacies)

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by McHugh, Dominic


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  ARCHIVAL MATERIAL CONSULTED

  Library of Congress, Washington DC:

  Frederick Loewe Collection (by box/folder number):

  5/1: Ascot Gavotte (3pp, Loewe autograph)

  5/2: Come to the Ball (4pp, Loewe autograph)

  5/3: Come to the Ball (11pp, Ozalid of copyist’s piano-vocal score, ann. in pencil)

  5/4: Dear Little Fool (1p, Loewe autograph; lead sheet, no lyric)

  5/5: Finale Act 1/(Procession—Embassy Waltz) (8pp, Loewe autograph)

  5/6: Entr’acte (8pp, Loewe autograph)

  5/7: Flower Market (5pp, Loewe autograph)

  5/8: Get Me to the Church on Time (4pp, Loewe autograph)

  5/9: A Hymn to Him (13pp, Loewe autograph)

  5/10: I Could Have Danced All Night (inside cover: crossed out pp. 3–4 of early version of “Why Can’t the English?”) (7pp, Loewe autograph)

  5/11: I’m an Ordinary Man (13pp, Loewe autograph)

  5/12: I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face (13pp, Loewe autograph)

  5/14: Just You Wait (8pp, Loewe autograph)

  5/15: Lady Liza (1p, lead sheet); Liza—counterpoint (2pp, lead sheet) (Loewe autographs)

  5/16: On the Street Where She Lives (inside cover: crossed out pp. 7–8 of early version of “Why Can’t the English”) (7pp, Loewe autograph)

  5/17: Overture (2pp, Loewe autograph)

  5/18: Please Don’t Marry Me (lead sheet) (3pp, Loewe autograph)

  5/19: The Pygmalion Waltzes (Embassy Waltz) (7pp, Loewe autograph)

  5/20: The Pygmalion Waltzes (4pp, Photocopy of copyist’s autograph piano score with ann. in pencil)

  5/21: The Rain in Spain (5pp); The Servants’ Chorus (2pp) (Loewe autographs)

  5/22: Show Me (inside cover: crossed out pp. 5–6 of early version “Why Can’t the English?”) (7pp, Loewe autograph)

  5/23: Shy (3pp, Loewe autograph); Shy (4pp, Rittmann arrangement, Latin version)

  5/24: There’s a Thing Called Love (lead sheet; typed lyric sheet laid in) (2pp, Loewe autograph)

  5/25: What Is a Woman? (lead sheet) (1p, Loewe autograph)

  5/26: Why Can’t the English? (inside cover: crossed out pp. 1–2 of early version of the same song, Rittmann arrangement) (10pp, Loewe autograph)

  5/27: With a Little Bit of Luck (6pp, Loewe autograph)

  5/29: Without You (7pp, Loewe autograph)

  5/30: Wouldn’t It be Loverly? (5pp, Loewe autograph)

  5/31: You Did It (23pp, Loewe autograph)

  8/20: Limehouse (melody without lyric) (1p, Loewe autograph)

  8/27: Over Your Head (melody without lyric) (1p, Loewe autograph)

  8/36: The Son of the Wooden Soldier (1941); lyrics by John W. Bratton (5pp, published piano-vocal score)

  8/37: There’s Always One You Can’t Forget (melody without lyric) (1p, Loewe autograph)

  8/40: The Undeserving Poor (sketch) (1p, Loewe autograph)

  8/44: What’s to Become of Me? (lead sheet; “There’s Always One” written below) (1p); Say Hello For Me (lead sheet without lyric) (1p); “What’s To Become of Me?” (sketches) (1p) (Loewe autographs)

  8/45: Who Is the Lady? (lead sheet without lyric) (1p, Loewe autograph)

  9/2: Say a Prayer for Me Tonight (sketch) (1p, Loewe autograph)

  9/9: Who Is the Lady? (lead sheet) (1p, Loewe autograph)

  9/10: Say a Prayer for Me Tonight (sketches)

  Warner-Chappell Collection (By Box/Folder Number):

  141/1: End of Ascot (1p, Bennett’s full score for original end of scene)

  141/1: New 24 (2pp, Lang’s score for change of scene)

  141/1: Ascot Gavotte (16pp, Copyist’s full score)

  141/1: Ascot Gavotte (9pp, Freda Miller’s dance pianist’s piano score: mixture of copyist’s score and Rittmann’s score for the dance; intermediate stage of number)

  141/1: Ascot Gavotte (3pp, photocopy of Rittmann’s piano score for ‘Intro to Gavotte’ with pencil annotations)

  141/3: Intro to Gavotte (2pp, photocopy of Rittmann’s piano score (ann.))

  141/3: Ascot Gavotte (7pp, copyist’s score plus Rittmann’s score (ann.); final version)

  141/3: Middle of Ascot (untitled) (1p, piano score with instructions; possible Loewe score; music depicts the entrance of Higgins)

  141/3: Ascot Gavotte Reprise (1p, photocopy of Rittmann’s score with pencil annotations)

  141/3: Gavotte (9pp, copyist’s piano-conductor score, original version of ending/ second verse)

  141/3: Ascot Gavotte Reprise (1p, photocopy of Rittmann’s score with pencil annotations; at bottom is the original end of scene)

  141/3: End of Ascot (untitled) (1p, Rittmann’s piano score; cut)

  141/5: Ascot Gavotte (7pp, choral score; includes extra verse which was later cut)

  141/6: I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face (33pp, copyist’s full score)

  141/7: Ballroom Intro + Continuation (5pp, Lang full score; original version)

  141/7: Ballroom Intro (4pp, conductor’s short score; First page in Bennett’s hand, other three in unknown hand)

  141/8: Changes of scene: 4a, 5a, 6a, 10a and 23 (copyist’s full scores)

  142/1: Come to the Ball (27pp, Bennett’s full score)

  142/1: Intro to Dress Ballet (2pp, Lang’s full score)

  142/3: Come to the Ball (16pp, copyist’s conductor’s score; includes dance section)

  142/3: Come to the Ball (12pp, copyist’s piano score; includes early version of transitional section)

  142/5: Dress Ballet (34pp, Bennett’s full score)

  142/6: Intro to Dress Ballet (1p, copyist’s version of conductor’s v score)

  142/6: Dress Ballet (14pp, photocopy of Rittmann piano score)

  142/7: Intro to Dress Ballet (1p, Rittmann’s piano score)

  142/7: Dress Ballet (14pp, Freda Miller’s photocopy of Rittmann piano score (ann.)

  142/7: Dress Ballet (16pp, annotated photocopy of Rittmann piano score; contains final pages at end which represent a revision)

  143/2: The Embassy Waltz (24pp, Bennett’s full score, crossed out; early version)

  143/4: Embassy Waltz (7pp, copyist’s piano score)

  143/4: Embassy Waltz (10pp, photocopy of Loewe/Rittmann piano score with completely new Rittmann ending)

  143/5: End of Gavotte and Blackout (6pp, copyist’s full score)

  143/6: Finish of Entr’acte (5pp, Lang’s full score)

  143/6: Entr’acte (28pp, copyist’s full score)

  143/8: Entr’acte (3pp, Rittmann’s piano score (ann.))

  143: The Embassy Waltz (13pp, copyist’s conductor’s short score)

  144/1: Exit Music (29pp, copyist’s full score)

  144/3: Fainting Music (Instrumental parts for early version of the end of the Ascot scene)

  144/5: End of Finale (Recording only) “Fair La
dy” (6pp, Bennett’s full score, as used on the Original Broadway Cast album)

 

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