Alan Jay Lerner was a true American classic – long-regarded in the Pantheon of writers for the American Musical Theatre along with the likes of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hart & Hammerstein, he wrote lyrics and/or librettos for some of its most famous shows and films – My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever and Gigi among others. Lerner wrote the lyrics for some of Broadway and Hollywood’s most famous songs. He won threeTony Awardsand threeAcademy Awards, among other honors.
In his new show, I Remember Him Well, Steve Ross will be performing some of the songs written with his most famous partner Frederick Loewe (Almost Like Being in Love, I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face, If Ever I Would Leave You) as well as those resulting from his other collaborations with Kurt Weill and Burton Lane (On a Clear Day You Can See For ever, Too Late Now, Here I’ll Stay). Steve has interviewed many who worked with this remarkable creative artist and will be recollecting him in their words as well as in the words of the great man himself.
Here I’ll stay (Kurt Weill)
How to handle a woman (Frederick Loewe)
I’ve grown accustomed to her face (Loewe)
Camelot (Loewe)
Time for a love song (Burton Lane)
If ever I would leave you (Loewe)
There’s always one you can’t forget
Too late now (Lane)
Medley from GIGI (Loewe)
Try Love (Gerard Kenny)
What did I have that I don’t have? (Lane)
I’ve been married (Kenny)
One more walk around the garden (Lane)
Dancing the blues away (Kenny)
Heather on the hill (Loewe)
Come to me, bend to me (Loewe)
My last love (Loewe)
I talk to the trees (Loewe)
Little prince (Loewe)
I never met a rose (Loewe)
Hurry, it’s lovely up here (Loewe)
Follow me (Loewe)
On a clear day you can see forever (Lane)
On the S.S. Bernard Cohn (Lane)
You’re all the world to me (Lane)
My Fair Lady medley (Loewe)