# Lolita. My Love

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Podcast: [Closing Night](https://stenobird.com/podcast/closing-night-6469355)
Published: 2025-05-31T04:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://broadwaypodcastnetwork.com/podcasts/closing-night
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In 1958, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita shocked American readers with its provocative tale of obsession and manipulation—just as Alan Jay Lerner’s musical Gigi, featuring the now-cringeworthy “Thank Heaven for Little Girls,” was charming its way to nine Oscars. Though vastly different in tone, both stories revolved around older men’s fixation on adolescent girls. Which makes it all the more surprising that Lerner, the man behind Gigi’s sugar-coated serenade, would take on Lolita for the stage just over a decade later. In this episode, we explore Lolita, My Love—a musical adaptation plagued by rewrites, walkouts, and uncomfortable audience reactions. With music by James Bond composer John Barry and direction from a team trying to toe the line between art and provocation, the production aimed high but never made it to Broadway. Instead, it became one of theater’s most fascinating failures, collapsing under the weight of its subject matter—and proving that some stories may simply resist musicalization. --- Theme music created by Blake Stadnik. Click ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ for a transcript and list of all resources used. Produced by Patrick Oliver Jones and WINMI Media with Dan Delgado as co-producer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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