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You could check The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin, ed. Robert Kimball,
Da Capo Press, 1998.
On 1/3/17 3:45 PM, Didier Machu wrote:
>
> Dear List, /
> /
>
> /Show Girl/ is a 1929 American musical play. Like the 1928 silent
> comedy-drama film (with soundtrack) bearing the same title, it tells
> of a "show-crazy girl" (as Humbert would put it) and indeed she rises
> to fame "in an essentially grief-proof sphere of existence wherefrom
> death and truth [are] banned" as a sugardaddy eventually finances her
> in a show "on fabulous Broadway". That musical could boast music by
> George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin (whom Nabokov would come to
> know around 1960) and Gus Kahn, and an orchestra directed by Duke
> Ellington.
>
> But what interests me is (probably) quite coincidental: among the
> musical numbers in it, one finds "Lolita (my Love)" and "How could I
> forget [Lolita]" (the first title seems to have inspired Barry and
> Lerner with that of their own ill-fated 1971 musical adaptation). Just
> for curiosity's sake, does anyone know where one could find the lyrics
> of those two numbers? The plot provided opportunities to include
> numbers from earlier works but I cannot tell who that Lolita is in the
> musical.
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Didier Machu
>
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On 1/3/17 3:45 PM, Didier Machu wrote:
>
> Dear List, /
> /
>
> /Show Girl/ is a 1929 American musical play. Like the 1928 silent
> comedy-drama film (with soundtrack) bearing the same title, it tells
> of a "show-crazy girl" (as Humbert would put it) and indeed she rises
> to fame "in an essentially grief-proof sphere of existence wherefrom
> death and truth [are] banned" as a sugardaddy eventually finances her
> in a show "on fabulous Broadway". That musical could boast music by
> George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin (whom Nabokov would come to
> know around 1960) and Gus Kahn, and an orchestra directed by Duke
> Ellington.
>
> But what interests me is (probably) quite coincidental: among the
> musical numbers in it, one finds "Lolita (my Love)" and "How could I
> forget [Lolita]" (the first title seems to have inspired Barry and
> Lerner with that of their own ill-fated 1971 musical adaptation). Just
> for curiosity's sake, does anyone know where one could find the lyrics
> of those two numbers? The plot provided opportunities to include
> numbers from earlier works but I cannot tell who that Lolita is in the
> musical.
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Didier Machu
>
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