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Howard Lindsay

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Noun1.Howard Lindsay - United States playwright who collaborated with Russel Crouse on several musicals (1889-1931)


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On November 16, 1959, a new musical premiered on the stage and gripped the heart of theater-goers in America The musical was the Sound of Music with music by Richard Rodgers and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, the book for the musical was written by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse On November 16, 1959, a new musical premiered on the stage and gripped the heart of theater-goers in America.
According to an introductory essay in the compilation Best Plays of the American Theatre, edited by John Gassner, Kesselring met producers Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse sometime in 1940 after Lindsay's wife, actress Dorothy Stickney, read the Arsenic script and recommended it to her husband.
When the real-life SS Morrow Castle sank a few weeks before opening, however, it was hastily rewritten by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse to be placed on a ship that does not sink.
 
 
 
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