If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.

Less successful was the Lawrence and Lee collaboration with Herman also starring Lansbury Dear World a musical adaptation of Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot. The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (1970) was a Vietnam-era exploration of Thoreau's resistance to an earlier war. Lee Theatre Research Institute a research facility and archive was dedicated in Lawrence and Lee's honor at the Ohio State University in 1986.

Jerome Lawrence (July 14 1915 – February 29 2004) was an American playwright and author.