Life of the Party is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.

The first of the team's many collaborations, it is a musical adaptation of Barry Connor's farce The Patsy. It was written for a Detroit stock theatre company. The play was performed in October 1942 at the Wilson Theatre, Detroit, and had a run of nine weeks, directed by Russell Filmore and starring Dorothy Stone, Charles Collins, Charles Ruggles and Margaret Dumont. The musical was never staged on Broadway.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Green, Stanley. "Lerner and Loewe" The World of Musical Comedy (4 ed.), Da Capo Press, 1984, ISBN 0-306-80207-4, p. 239
  2. ^ Suskin, Steven. "'Life of the Party'" Show Tunes:The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway's Major Composers, Oxford University Press US, 2000, ISBN 0-19-512599-1, p. 222
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