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I suggest that you Google the New York Public Library's extensive theater
collection as well as ASCAP, . American Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers.
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Didier Machu <didier.machu@univ-pau.fr>
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 Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Didier Machu <didier.machu@univ-pau.fr>
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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> <https://listserv.ucsb.edu/lsv-cgi-bin/wa?A0=NABOKV-L> VN Bibliography
> Blog <http://vnbiblio.com/>
>
> All private editorial communications are read by both co-editors.
>
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Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,dana.dragunoiu@gmail.com,shvabrin@humnet.ucla.edu
Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm
Nabokov Online Journal:" http://www.nabokovonline.com
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