Lady in the Dark

For the 1944 film, see Lady in the Dark (film).
Lady in the Dark
Original Broadway Playbill
MusicKurt Weill
LyricsIra Gershwin
BookMoss Hart
Productions1941 Broadway
1944 Film
1954 Television movie
1981 Nottingham, UK
1997 London concert

Lady in the Dark is a musical with music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book and direction by Moss Hart. It was produced by Sam Harris. The protagonist, Liza Elliott, is the unhappy editor of a fashion magazine who is undergoing psychoanalysis. The musical ran on Broadway in 1941, and in the United Kingdom in 1981. A film version was released in 1944, and a live television special followed in 1954.