Life of the Party (musical)

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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.Green, Stanley. [https://books.google.com/books?id=iUJPcFgsEyYC&q=%22Life+of+the+Party%22&pg=PA442 "Lerner and Loewe"] The World of Musical Comedy (4 ed.), Da Capo Press, 1984, {{ISBN|0-306-80207-4}}, p. 239Suskin, Steven. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_usBBxC_TQC&q=%22Life+of+the+Party%22&pg=PA223 "'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