Photo from BBC via YouTube June 10, 1901- Frederick Loewe My Fair Lady was the first Broadway musical that I knew. The show opened in 1956, and its songs were the first music that got my attention. I was about three-years-old when my parental units played the Original … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Broadway Lyricist, Alan Jay Lerner
August 31, 1918- Alan Jay Lerner: ''There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years!'' Lerner had one of the legendary partnerships of the history of Musical Theater. He was one of the very best lyricists and he was a … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Writer, Colette
January 28, 1873- Colette: “Do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm”. She was Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette Gauthier-Villars de Jouvanel Goudeket, but smartly went by the simple, Colette. Colette put herself out to the world as an ingénue, an innocent young wife … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Photographer/Designer, Cecil Beaton
January 14, 1904- Cecil Beaton I have been reading 2 volumes of Cecil Beaton’s Diaries over the past year, in small little doses, choosing to read a few entries here and there. He knew & photographed everyone that mattered for most of the 20th century. As a gay man of … [Read more...]
