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
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953 film) the film; as a result, the characters have become extremely popular in pop culture. Bosley Crowther of "The New York Times" called Howard Hawks' direction "uncomfortably cloddish and slow" and found the gags for Russell "devoid of character or charm," but concluded, "And yet, there is that about Miss Russell and also about Miss Monroe that keeps you looking at them even when they have little or nothing to do." "Variety" wrote that Hawks "maintains a racy air that brings the musical off excellently at a pace that helps cloak the fact that it's rather lightweight, but sexy, stuff. However,