"Say, Darling" 1957 BISSELL, Richard
$95
BISSELL, Richard
[308] pp.
Little, Brown and Company
1957
Jacket design by Irv Docktor
8 1/4" x 5 3/4"
VG/ VG
Comic foray into "the wisecracking, big-money, gaudy and glamorous world of Broadway."
Say, Darling is a three-act comic play by Abe Burrows and Richard and Marian Bissell about the creation of a Broadway musical. While the play featured nine original songs with lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Jule Styne, all the songs are presented as either rehearsal or audition material.
In a case of art imitating life not once, but twice, the show is an adaptation of Richard Bissell's semi-autobiographical novel of the same name which chronicled his experience adapting his novel 7½ Cents for The Pajama Game: namely, a stage adaptation of a novel, which itself concerns the musical adaptation of a book.