Alan Jay Lerner

Love For Sale features a number of James Tormé originals alongside covers including the big-band jazz of Alan Jay Lerner's "Come Back to Me" and the Cole Porter penned title track.

Mike Ragogna: Video Exclusive: James Tormé's "Love For Sale," Plus Conversations with Josh Groban, Darlene Love, and Yael Naim Mike Ragogna 2011

Musical lyrics, on the other hand – I'm thinking Alan Jay Lerner, Stephen Sondheim or Cole Porter – are a true literary marvel.

Opera versus musicals: which do you prefer? 2011

"Speak proper English, you're regarded as a freak" thanks, GBS and Alan Jay Lerner.

John Joss: Help Me Understand... John Joss 2012

Love For Sale features a number of James Tormé originals alongside covers including the big-band jazz of Alan Jay Lerner's "Come Back to Me" and the Cole Porter penned title track.

Mike Ragogna: Video Exclusive: James Tormé's "Love For Sale," Plus Conversations with Josh Groban, Darlene Love, and Yael Naim Mike Ragogna 2011

Few more so than Coco, a show based on the troubled later life of the iconic French fashion designer Coco Chanel, not least because she had a hand in the writing of the work, along with André Previn and Alan Jay Lerner.

This week's new theatre 2011

"Speak proper English, you're regarded as a freak" thanks, GBS and Alan Jay Lerner.

John Joss: Help Me Understand... John Joss 2012

"Speak proper English, you're regarded as a freak" thanks, GBS and Alan Jay Lerner.

John Joss: Help Me Understand... John Joss 2012

"Speak proper English, you're regarded as a freak" thanks, GBS and Alan Jay Lerner.

John Joss: Help Me Understand... John Joss 2012

"Speak proper English, you're regarded as a freak" thanks, GBS and Alan Jay Lerner.

John Joss: Help Me Understand... John Joss 2012

I report, you decide to read Sondheim's evisceration of the faulty rhymes and other sins of such iconic lyricists as Lorenz Hart, Alan Jay Lerner and Noel Coward.

Michael Sigman: Sondheim's Lyrics: Rhymes, Reasons and Religion Michael Sigman 2011