Lorelei (musical) Lorelei (musical) Lorelei is a musical with a book by Kenny Solms and Gail Parent, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Jule Styne. It is a revision of the Joseph Fields-Anita Loos book for the 1949 production "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and includes many of the Jule Styne-Leo Robin songs written for the original. The 1974 Broadway production of "Lorelei", directed by Robert Moore and starring Carol Channing, ran for 320 performances. Subtitled "Gentlemen Still Prefer Blondes", it opens with the title character, a heavily-bejeweled, very wealthy widow, about to set sail on the SS Ile de
Anita Loos Loos began to write a sketch of Mencken and his vacant lady friends that would later become "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" began as a series of short sketches published in "Harper's Bazaar", Known as the "Lorelei" stories, they were satires on the state of sexual relations that only vaguely alluded to sexual intimacy; the magazine's circulation quadrupled overnight. The heroine of the stories, Lorelei Lee, was a bold, ambitious flapper, who was much more concerned with collecting expensive baubles from her conquests than any marriage licenses, in addition to being a shrewd woman of loose morals and high