Sweet Smell of Success (musical)

Sweet Smell of Success
Original Cast Recording
Music	Marvin Hamlisch
Lyrics	Craig Carnelia
Book	John Guare
Basis	Sweet Smell of Success by Alexander Mackendrick Clifford Odets Ernest Lehman Sweet Smell of Success by Ernest Lehman
Productions	2002 Broadway

Sweet Smell of Success is a musical created by Marvin Hamlisch (music), Craig Carnelia (lyrics), and John Guare (book). The show is based on the 1957 movie of the same name, which in turn was based on the 1955 novelette of the same name by Ernest Lehman. The show tells the story of a powerful newspaper columnist named J. J. Hunsecker (based on famed New York columnist Walter Winchell) who uses his connections to ruin his sister's relationship with a man he deems inappropriate.

It was a critical and commercial failure.^[1][2]