Paint Your Wagon (musical)
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Paint Your Wagon is a Broadway musical comedy, with book and lyrics by Alan J. Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story centers on a miner and his daughter and follows the lives and loves of the people in a mining camp in Gold Rush-era California. Popular songs from the show included "Wand'rin' Star", "I Talk to the Trees", and "They Call the Wind Maria".
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Paint Your Wagon | |
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Music | Frederick Loewe |
Lyrics | Alan J. Lerner |
Book | Alan J. Lerner |
Productions | 1951 Broadway 1953 West End 2015 Encores! |
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The musical ran on Broadway in 1951 and in the West End in 1953. In 1969, the film version, also titled Paint Your Wagon, was released. It had a highly revised plot and some new songs composed by Lerner and André Previn.