THE AUTHORS

     JULE STYNE composed the music for the Play. With the score of such long-running Broadway classics as High Button Shoes, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan, Gypsy, Bells Are Ringing, Funny Girl, and the Tony Award winning Hallelujah Baby! To his credit, composer Jule Styne stands as one of the handful of undisputed architects of the American musical theater. From 1949 through 1974, nearly every new Broadway season saw the opening of a show with a Jule Styne score, many of them a result of his winning partnership with Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Some years boasted two or three Styne hits running simultaneously.

      In Hollywood, where Styne found a champion in Frank Sinatra, his fruitful collaboration with Sammy Cahn yielded a string of Hit Parade songs as well as the exuberant score for MGM's "Anchors Aweigh" where he wrote the popular hit song I Fall In Love Too Easily. This song will be added to our new production of Some Like It Hot, and sung by Tony Curtis. Styne's unforgettable Broadway songs include: Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend, The Party's Over, Just In Time, Let Me Entertain You, and People.

      BOB MERRILL wrote the lyrics for the Play.  A composer and lyricist, he played key roles in creating such musicals as Carnival and Funny Girl and such popular songs as How Much Is That Doggie in the Window. Mr. Merrill based his Broadway projects on Hollywood experiences and films.

      Ironically, the motion picture industry propelled Mr. Merrill toward Broadway. Hired by MGM to compose musicals--just as musical motion pictures were losing favor, Mr. Merrill took his film scores and tuned them into Broadway musicals. He took Eugene O'Neills Anna Christie, and opened it in 1957 as New Girl In Town, starring Gwen Verdon. Mr. Merrill followed that with two more MGM properties O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness and turned it into the 1959 Broadway hit Take Me Along, starring Jackie Gleason, and Lili which he transformed into Carnival, which won the 1961 Best Musical Award He served as "show doctor" for Hello Dolly, prior to its smash Broadway opening. Next came his collaboration with Styne on the 1964 hit Funny Girl and again in 1972 on Sugar, David Merrick's remake of the movie Some Like A Hot.

      PETER STONE wrote the book for the Play. He is an acclaimed Tony and Oscar winning writer who began in TV and moved to motion pictures and the theater. Stone was raised in L.A. and after heading East for schooling began his career in live TV. He went on to script such well received motion pictures as Charade (1963) and Father Goose (1964) for which he won an Academy Award. Mr. Stone has provided the book for several Broadway musicals, notably 1776, (1969) and Woman of the Year (1981). He later adapted the classic 1959 Billy Wilder film Some Like it Hot as Sugar (1971) and turned the Tracy-Hepburn comedy Woman of the Year into a 1981 star vehicle for Lauren Bacall. His polish of the book for My One and Only(1983) helped solidify Tommy Tune's reputation and Stone reportedly did uncredited work on Tune's staging of Grand Hotel in 1990. He and Tune again collaborated on the award winning The Will Rogers Follies in 1992 and Stone wrote the Play Titanic in 1997.

Photo: Tony Curtis as "Osgood Fielding III" meets "Daphne" played by Timothy Gulan

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