Sep 24, 2024
Today on Too Opinionated, we talk with Jane Dorian about the
illustrious career of her godfather, Jerry Herman (Hello
Dolly!, Mame, La Cage Au Faux, Mack & Mable, Dear World, Milk &
Honey, etc) and the women that would become known as
Jerry’s Girls (Carol Channing, Angela Lansbury, Bernadette
Peters, Pearl Bailey, Liza Minnelli, Leslie Uggams, Karen Morrow,
Rita Moreno, Ethel Merman, Mary Martin, and many
more).
The Doyle Auction House is currently scheduled to offer items
of historic significance on November 14th, while his crypt
(Adjacent to Marilyn Monroe and Hugh Hefner will be auctioned on
October 25th.
JERRY HERMAN (Composer/Lyricist) There is
never an evening when, somewhere in the world, the music and lyrics
of Jerry Herman are not being sung by a lady in a red headdress, or
a lady with a bugle, or a middle-aged man in a wig and a boa.
Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage are home to some of the most
popular, most-often performed and most successful musical heroines
of all time, and have given Jerry the distinction of being the only
composer-lyricist in history to have had three musicals that ran
more than 1,500 consecutive performances on Broadway. His
first Broadway show was Milk and Honey (1961), followed by Hello,
Dolly! (1964) Mame (1966) Dear World (1969), Mack & Mabel (1974)
The Grand Tour (1979), La Cage (1983), Jerry's Girls (1985) and
"Mrs. Santa Claus" (1966), a CBS TV special starring Angela
Lansbury. Showtune, a revue of his life's work, is performing
in regional theatres around the country. His string of awards
and honors includes, Tonys, Grammys, Drama Desk Awards, the Johnny
Mercer Award, the Richard Rodgers Award, the Oscar Hammerstein
Award, the Frederick Lowe Award, the Songwriters Hall of Fame and
the Theatre Hall of Fame.
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