Who’s Lerner & Loewe?
Runs March 5 through March 22 Off Center Theatre Crown Center – 3rd Level 2450 Grand Blvd, Kansas City, MO In 1942 Alan Jay Lerner (lyrist and librettist) was heading to the restroom when he took a wrong turn and managed to run into Frederick “Fritz” Loewe (composer). A brief conversation ensued and a lifelong friendship and rocky professional relationship stormed forward. For over 30 years the writing team created some of the greatest classic American musicals ever to hit the Broadway stage. After each show it would be reported that one would never work the other again. Despite their intensity for the art, both Lerner and Loewe understood their dynamic which garnered some of their greatest works as individuals. Six months before Lerner’s death, the musical team earned a Kennedy Center Honor in December of 1985. Host George Harter gives us an evening of classic Lerner & Lowe music from Brigadoon, Camelot, Gigi, Paint Your Wagon and My Fair Lady. With Cary Mock on piano audiences will h
