They also adapted Auntie Mame into the hit musical Mame with composer Jerry Herman, which won a Tony Award for its star, Angela Lansbury. In all, they collaborated on 39 works, and, with James Hilton, a 1956 musical adaptation of Hilton's novel Lost Horizon, entitled Shangri-La. Their wildly successful play, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, was produced through the American Playwrights Theatre, and premiered at Lawrence's alma mater, Ohio State University, which also commissioned their play on the life and times of James Thurber, Jabberwock (1972). In 1965, Lawrence and Lee founded the American Playwrights' Theatre, a plan to bypass the commerciality of the Broadway stage, which foreshadowed the professional regional theatre movement. They are also well known for the plays Auntie Mame and First Monday in October. Lawrence and Lee turned to the live theatre in 1955 with Inherit the Wind, which remains among the most-produced plays in the American theatre. Lee was born in Elyria, Ohio, the son of Elvira (née Taft), a teacher, and C. With his writing partner, Jerome Lawrence, Lee worked for Armed Forces Radio during World War II Lawrence and Lee became the most prolific writing partnership in radio, with such long-running series as Favorite Story among others. Robert Edwin Lee (Octo– July 8, 1994) was an American playwright and lyricist.
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