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Musical Pictures of Edmund Kean by Peter Filichia

By Peter Filichia -- You may know Song of Norway, for which Robert Wright and George ("Chet") Forrest adapted melodies from Norwegian classical composer Edvard Grieg. In the '40s, it ran two years and was eventually made into a feature film. You undoubtedly know Kismet, for which the same Wright and Forrest adapted melodies from Russian classical composer Alexander Borodin. In the '50s, it ran sixteen months, won…

SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:13AM on July 5, 2011

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