Going, Going, Gone: Kritzerland Premieres John Barry and Alan Jay Lerner’s “Lolita, My Love” on CD, Reissues Ben Bagley’s “Irving Berlin Revisited”

Kritzerland has just announced two new titles today! A musical version of Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel Lolita hardly seemed like typical fare for the Broadway stage.  Yet Alan Jay Lerner – lyricist-librettist of My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Paint Your Wagon – envisioned just that.  Lolita had already been adapted by Nabokov himself for director Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 film starring Sue Lyon, James Mason, Shelley Winters, and a scene-stealing Peter Sellers, but the author gave his blessing to Lerner’s ambitious undertaking.  “Mr. Lerner is most talented, and an excellent classicist,” he commented. …

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