In 1949 Lorelei Lee, the Roaring Twenties comic creation of writer Anita Loos, came to life on Broadway with a score by Jule Styne. Lorelei is the quintessential '20's gold-digger, who believes that, in romance, "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend." This is an old-fashioned antic musical with nostalgia, high spirits and a tuneful score -- "I'm Just A Little Girl From Little Rock," "Bye, Bye Baby." (The movie later gave Marilyn Monroe one of her most famous screen roles.) The NY Journal American shouted: "Happy musical-comedy days are here again. Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!"

CREDITS

Music by Jule Styne
Lyrics by Leo Robin
Book by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos
Adapted from the Novel by Anita Loos