Amanda Hug and Kiss! Adolph Green's Daughter Holds Musical-Theater Torch HighAmanda Green is the daughter of the late playwright and lyricist lyr·i·cist n. A writer of song lyrics. Also called lyrist. Noun 1. lyricist - a person who writes the words for songs lyrist Adolph Green—who formed a legendary, lasting collaboration with Betty Comden Betty Comden (May 3 1917 - November 23 2006) was born Basya Cohen in New York City (see [1],[2], [3]). She died of heart failure following an undisclosed illness of several months at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan on Thanksgiving —and Broadway actress Phyllis Newman For the Young and the Restless character, see . Phyllis Newman (born March 19, 1933) is a Tony Award-winning American actress and singer. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, she attended PS 17 and Lincoln High School where she was voted "Future Hollywood Star" . On Monday, June 9, Ms. Green—who has herself written lyrics, for the musical adaptation of Nick Hornby This article is about Nick Hornby, the English writer. For the artist of the same name, see Nick Hornby (artist). Nick Hornby (born 17 April 1957 in Redhill, Surrey, England) is an English novelist and essayist. ’s High Fidelity high fidelity n. The electronic reproduction of sound, especially from broadcast or recorded sources, with minimal distortion. high , and has worked with actors Mario Cantone and Christine Ebersole—directed and performed in a revue called Comden & Green’s New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , as part of a benefit for Greenwich House Music School in the West Village. The production included 42nd Street’s Michael Arnold tapping out “Moses Supposes” from Singin’ in the Rain, as well as numbers from The Revuers, On the Town, and Bells Are Ringing. “I saw how much fun they were having, and I wanted to do it, too,” the tall, slender, bronzed Ms. Green, who is in her early 40s, said about her decision to follow her parents into music theater (older brother Adam is a journalist who has written for Vogue and The New Yorker). She recalled growing up on the Upper West Side, where the famille frequently entertained composers Leonard Bernstein, Julie Styne and Stephen Sondheim. “It was a lot of cool people.” Despite her parents’ stringent warnings not to choose a career in showbiz, Ms. Green wrote and performed her first song at the age of 19, for their 25th wedding anniversary celebration, which took place at actress Lauren Bacall’s apartment in the Dakota on West 72nd Street and Central Park West. She was last in the lineup, after Messrs. Bernstein, Styne and Sondheim. “And Isaac Stern on violin, so it was a pretty intimidating debut.” And how was her act received? “I was the sentimental favorite. What were they going to do?” ialeksander@observer.com 
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