Music by Jacques Offenbach (Adapted by Sylvan Levin).

To Hell With Orpheus: 'Comic Opera' with book and lyrics by Edward Eager (Adapted by Ring Lardner, Jr.).

The Gambler: Book written with Alfred Drake (1952).The Liar, New Musical Comedy, Book by Edward Eager & Alfred Drake Lyrics by Edward Eager Music by John Mundy (1950).Beachcomber Club Revue of 1946, Books & Lyrics by Edward Eager Music by John Frederick Coots (1946).Wrote lyrics to music from Schubert, Beethoven, Saint-Saens, Weber, Chopin, Wagner, Haydn and Foster as culled by Clay Warnick. Dream with Music (1944), a 'musical fantasy' in which a soap opera writer dreams that she is Scheherazade in old Baghdad, where her real life acquaintances turn up as Aladdin, the Sultan, etc.With Elie Siegmeister, he wrote three new numbers for the show. Sing Out, Sweet Land! (1944), 'a salute to American folk and popular music'.Produced by The Columbia Theater Associates of Columbia University at Brander Matthews Hall (NYC – 1942) starring Philip Duey, Wallace House, Edith Campbell, Jan Lindermann, etc. Village Barber, The: 'An Operetta' with book and lyrics by Edward Eager.A well-known lyricist and playwright, Eager died on October 23, 1964, in Stamford, Connecticut of lung cancer, aged 53. Nesbit, whom he thought of as the best children's author of all time. In his books, Eager often acknowledges his debt to E. Frank Baum's Oz series, and started writing children's books when he could not find stories he wanted to read to his own young son. He married Jane Eberly in 1938 and they had a son, Fritz. After graduation, he moved to New York City, where he lived for 14 years before moving to Connecticut. Most of the Magic series is contemporary low fantasy.Įager was born in and grew up in Toledo, Ohio and attended Harvard University class of 1935. His children's novels feature the appearance of magic in the lives of ordinary children. American children's and theatrical writer (1911–1964)Įdward McMaken Eager (J– October 23, 1964) was an American lyricist, dramatist, and writer of children's fiction.

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