Colored Lights
Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration and All That Jazz
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The composer-lyricist team for such musicals asChicago and Cabaret discusses their partnership, contributions to the stage world, impact on the careers of starring performers, and their witness to the American musical theater of the late twentieth century. 15,000 … More »
The composer-lyricist team for such musicals as
Baker & Taylor
The composer-lyricist team for such musicals asChicago and Cabaret discusses their partnership, contributions to the stage world, impact on the careers of starring performers, and their witness to the American musical theater of the late twentieth century. 15,000 first printing.
Holtzbrinck
Blackwell North Amer
Composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb are the longest-running composer-lyricist partnership in Broadway history, having first joined forces in 1962. The fruits of their collaboration have helped to push American musical theater in a more daring direction musically and dramatically. At the same time, their impact on individual performers - while less well known - has also been substantial.
Told through a dialogue between the two men, enlivened with excerpts from Fred Ebb's lyrics and sixteen pages of photographs, Colored Lights is a uniquely wonderful work. John Kander and Fred Ebb - assisted by Greg Lawrence - discuss their lives and careers with the same wit and acuity that distinguish their work in the theater, concluding with a discussion of the academy Award-winning film adaptation of Chicago and of their newest musical, The Visit. John Kander and Fred Ebb provide a history not only of their own lives but also of the American musical theater of the late twentieth century.
Baker
& Taylor
The composer-lyricist team for such musicals as Chicago and Cabaret discusses their partnership, contributions to the stage world, impact on the careers of starring performers, and their witness to the American musical theater of the late twentieth century.
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The composer-lyricist team for such musicals as
Holtzbrinck
The autobiography, in dialogue, of the composer and lyricist of Chicago and Cabaret as well as a wise and witty memoir of forty years of American musicals.
Composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb are the longest-running composer-lyricist team in Broadway history, having first joined forces in 1962. The creators of such groundbreaking musicals as Chicago, Cabaret, and Kiss of the Spider Woman, Kander and Ebb have helped to push American musical theater in a more daring direction, both musically and dramatically. Their impact on individual performers has been great as well, starting with the handpicked star of their first musical: an untested nineteen-year-old named Liza Minnelli (who writes of this experience in her introduction).
Colored Lights covers the major shows of Kander and Ebb's partnership, from Flora, The Red Menace (starring a then-unknown Liza) to The Visit, due to open on Broadway in 2004. The pages and musicals in between reveal what has made theirs such a long-lived musical partnership--and one so valued by the artists they have worked with. In recounting the genesis and controversies of Cabaret, reflecting on the superstar mentality of such artist as Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, and recalling their work with Bob Fosse on Chicago (as well as their views on the blockbuster 2002 film), John Kander and Fred Ebb provide a history not only of their own lives but also of the American musical theater of the late twentieth century.
Composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb are the longest-running composer-lyricist team in Broadway history, having first joined forces in 1962. The creators of such groundbreaking musicals as Chicago, Cabaret, and Kiss of the Spider Woman, Kander and Ebb have helped to push American musical theater in a more daring direction, both musically and dramatically. Their impact on individual performers has been great as well, starting with the handpicked star of their first musical: an untested nineteen-year-old named Liza Minnelli (who writes of this experience in her introduction).
Colored Lights covers the major shows of Kander and Ebb's partnership, from Flora, The Red Menace (starring a then-unknown Liza) to The Visit, due to open on Broadway in 2004. The pages and musicals in between reveal what has made theirs such a long-lived musical partnership--and one so valued by the artists they have worked with. In recounting the genesis and controversies of Cabaret, reflecting on the superstar mentality of such artist as Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, and recalling their work with Bob Fosse on Chicago (as well as their views on the blockbuster 2002 film), John Kander and Fred Ebb provide a history not only of their own lives but also of the American musical theater of the late twentieth century.
The autobiography, in dialogue, of the composer and lyricist of Chicago and Cabaret as well as a wise and witty memoir of forty years of American musicals.
Composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb are the longest-running composer-lyricist team in Broadway history, having first joined forces in 1962. The creators of such groundbreaking musicals as Chicago, Cabaret, and Kiss of the Spider Woman, Kander and Ebb have helped to push American musical theater in a more daring direction, both musically and dramatically. Their impact on individual performers has been great as well, starting with the handpicked star of their first musical: an untested nineteen-year-old named Liza Minnelli (who writes of this experience in her introduction).
Colored Lights covers the major shows of Kander and Ebb's partnership, from Flora, The Red Menace (starring a then-unknown Liza) to The Visit, due to open on Broadway in 2004. The pages and musicals in between reveal what has made theirs such a long-lived musical partnership--and one so valued by the artists they have worked with. In recounting the genesis and controversies of Cabaret, reflecting on the superstar mentality of such artist as Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, and recalling their work with Bob Fosse on Chicago (as well as their views on the blockbuster 2002 film), John Kander and Fred Ebb provide a history not only of their own lives but also of the American musical theater of the late twentieth century.
Composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb are the longest-running composer-lyricist team in Broadway history, having first joined forces in 1962. The creators of such groundbreaking musicals as Chicago, Cabaret, and Kiss of the Spider Woman, Kander and Ebb have helped to push American musical theater in a more daring direction, both musically and dramatically. Their impact on individual performers has been great as well, starting with the handpicked star of their first musical: an untested nineteen-year-old named Liza Minnelli (who writes of this experience in her introduction).
Colored Lights covers the major shows of Kander and Ebb's partnership, from Flora, The Red Menace (starring a then-unknown Liza) to The Visit, due to open on Broadway in 2004. The pages and musicals in between reveal what has made theirs such a long-lived musical partnership--and one so valued by the artists they have worked with. In recounting the genesis and controversies of Cabaret, reflecting on the superstar mentality of such artist as Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, and recalling their work with Bob Fosse on Chicago (as well as their views on the blockbuster 2002 film), John Kander and Fred Ebb provide a history not only of their own lives but also of the American musical theater of the late twentieth century.
Blackwell North Amer
Composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb are the longest-running composer-lyricist partnership in Broadway history, having first joined forces in 1962. The fruits of their collaboration have helped to push American musical theater in a more daring direction musically and dramatically. At the same time, their impact on individual performers - while less well known - has also been substantial.
Told through a dialogue between the two men, enlivened with excerpts from Fred Ebb's lyrics and sixteen pages of photographs, Colored Lights is a uniquely wonderful work. John Kander and Fred Ebb - assisted by Greg Lawrence - discuss their lives and careers with the same wit and acuity that distinguish their work in the theater, concluding with a discussion of the academy Award-winning film adaptation of Chicago and of their newest musical, The Visit. John Kander and Fred Ebb provide a history not only of their own lives but also of the American musical theater of the late twentieth century.
Baker
& Taylor
The composer-lyricist team for such musicals as Chicago and Cabaret discusses their partnership, contributions to the stage world, impact on the careers of starring performers, and their witness to the American musical theater of the late twentieth century.
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Imprint:
New York - Faber and Faber
Pages:
231
ISBN:
057121133X
Language:
English
Statement of responsibility:
by John Kander and Fred Ebb as told to Greg Lawrence
Characteristics:
xx, 231 p., [16] p. of plates :,ill. ;,22 cm.
Author (Original Script):
Kander, John
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