Edward Kleban (1939-1987) was the lyricist of A Chorus Line, for which he won the 1975 Tony Award, the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Desk and Olivier Awards. His score for the musical A Class Act, produced posthumously, was nominated for the 2001 Tony and Drama Desk Awards and ... Vie...
Concurrently, composer Marvin Hamlisch and lyricist Edward Kleban developed a vibrant score. The concept involved a Broadway chorus audition where a director demands that his dancers share their private memories and inner demons. Some dismissed this as staged group therapy, but most found the results...
Today we know that there is gold in that old brass. When “Gypsy” was just a jingling coin in the pocket of producer David Merrick, the talent pool was so vast that young Cy Coleman, eager to do a show with his lyricist Carolyn Leigh, wrote four songs, strictly on speculation (“Fir...
Seussical, the ambitious musical imagining of Dr. Seuss stories, opened on Broadway to great expectations almost exactly a decade ago and all signs pointed to a guaranteed hit. Composer Stephen Flaherty and lyricist Lynn Ahrens were fresh off of the success of their 1998 Tony-Award-winningRagtime...
This lyricist and producer is a frequent collaborator of both Lloyd Webber and the next EGOT recipient on this list, Alan Menken. Primetime Emmy Awards 2018: Outstanding Variety Special (Live),Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert Grammy Awards ...
With a screenplay by Leslie Dixon, based on Waters’s original and the Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan-penned book for the musical, and a score by Marc Shaiman and lyricist Scott Wittman, Hairspray, which was directed and choreographed by Adam Shankman, was hugely popular when it was ...
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He expanded his 1975 “Queen of the Stardust Ballroom” song score, with lyricists Marilyn and Alan Bergman, into the score of the 1978 Broadway musical “Ballroom,” directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett of “A Chorus Line” fame. It earned eight Tony nominations including Best ...
an interesting story to tell. The next morning I was thinking of the show and it reminded me of what Michael Bennett must have been doing when he was sitting in that room back in 1974 with a group of experienced dancers – talking of their lives; their experiences becameA Chorus Line. ...
The 48th edition of Kritzerland at Sterling s Upstairs at The Federal on August 3 saluted female lyricists as an offshoot of a Dorothy Fields tribute earlier this year. It was by far the best Kritzerland show I have seen this