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Less successful was the Lawrence and Lee collaboration with Herman also starring Lansbury Dear World a musical adaptation of Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot. The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail (1970) was a Vietnam-era exploration of Thoreau's resistance to an earlier war. Lee Theatre Research Institute a research facility and archive was dedicated in Lawrence and Lee's honor at the Ohio State University in 1986.

Jerome Lawrence (July 14 1915 – February 29 2004) was an American playwright and author.