Dicks saw Rudge on stage in Julian Slade's Salad Days and the duo wrote the revue And Another Thing together in 1960.
A few months later the same team wrote The Irving Revue, and in 1952 brought forward at the same small premises Ronnie Stevens's staging of David Climie's late night revue, Just Lately, with Joan Sims, Charles Ross and Kenneth Connor.
He continued his scholarly writings with two collections of essays, Études d'histoire religieuse (1857; Studies of Religious History) and Essais de morale et de critique (1859; "Moral and Critical Essays"), first written for the Revue des Deux Mondes and the Journal des Débats.
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In 1952, with John Gold, he wrote the annual IYC revue, including the story of Robin Hood as it might have been treated by Dostoevesky and Noel Coward.
He will once again write and direct the revue, which first ran off Broadway in 1982 and received a special Tony Award in 2006; various editions have been performed in dozens of American cities as well as in London, Tokyo and Sydney.
After receiving an undergraduate degree from New York University in 1955 and a master's degree in English literature from Columbia University in 1957, he penned nightclub pieces and teamed with Paul Klein and Norman Martin to write songs for the revue From A to Z (1960).
Taking his own advice, Rodgers shifted, starting his career with a burst of creativity: from 1925 to 1930 he and Hart wrote the scores for 16 musicals and revues.
Jean and Walter Kerr teamed up again in 1949 with "Touch and Go," a revue for which they wrote the sketches and lyrics and which Mr. Kerr directed.
Mr. Lewine's Broadway credentials reached back to 1934, when he wrote the book for a short-lived musical revue, "Fools Rush In".
