- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Preface
- A Note about the Lyrics
- 1 The World of Her Father
- 2 The World of Her Family
- 3 The Teen Years
- 4 Marriage and the Start of a Career
- 5 What’s Black and White and Heard All Over?
- 6 Give My Refrains to Broadway
- 7 Hello to Hollywood
- 8 Change Partners and Write
- 9 The Best of Hollywood
- 10 End of an Era
- 11 Hollywood through a Broadway Lens
- 12 Librettos Instead of Lyrics
- 13 Up in Central Park
- 14 Annie Get Your Gun
- 15 More Movies
- 16 Colonial America and Brooklyn
- 17 Something Old, Something New
- 18 Sweet Charity
- 19 “It’s Where You Finish …”
- Appendix 1 List of Songs
- Appendix 2 List of Theater Works and Movies
- Index of Songs, Shows, and Movies
- General Index
Up in Central Park
Up in Central Park
- Chapter:
- (p.138) 13 Up in Central Park
- Source:
- Pick Yourself Up
- Author(s):
Charlotte Greenspan
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter focuses on Dorothy's return to writing lyrics via the new musical, Up in Central Park. She and Herb wrote the libretto together, as they had for their previous three shows. The composer was an old friend but a new collaborator: Sigmund Romberg. Up in Central Park is a mixture of fact and fiction. Similar to stage and screen biographies—musical or otherwise — its story was essentially fiction with an anchor in history. In this it differs from Oklahoma! or Carousel, which are also set in the past, but without characters who had actually made news in their time.
Keywords: Up in Central Park, women songwriters, Up in Central Park, Sigmund Romberg, Broadway musicals
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Preface
- A Note about the Lyrics
- 1 The World of Her Father
- 2 The World of Her Family
- 3 The Teen Years
- 4 Marriage and the Start of a Career
- 5 What’s Black and White and Heard All Over?
- 6 Give My Refrains to Broadway
- 7 Hello to Hollywood
- 8 Change Partners and Write
- 9 The Best of Hollywood
- 10 End of an Era
- 11 Hollywood through a Broadway Lens
- 12 Librettos Instead of Lyrics
- 13 Up in Central Park
- 14 Annie Get Your Gun
- 15 More Movies
- 16 Colonial America and Brooklyn
- 17 Something Old, Something New
- 18 Sweet Charity
- 19 “It’s Where You Finish …”
- Appendix 1 List of Songs
- Appendix 2 List of Theater Works and Movies
- Index of Songs, Shows, and Movies
- General Index
