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Anyone who enjoys musical theater will delight in this anecdotal memoir by an accomplished musical team who began their partnership in 1962. The text, a series of conversations told to Lawrence (Dance with Demons: The Life of Jerome Robbins), reads like an extended gossip column written with style and wit. Composer Kander and lyricist Ebb collaborated on many Broadway shows including their first, Flora the Red Menace (1965), Cabaret (1966) and Chicago (1975). Their recollections bring the golden age of musical theater to life and reveal the nuts and bolts of creating a score for a successful musical. The two reminisce freely about stars such as Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand and Bob Fosse, with whom they had close working relationships. They lavishly praise Minnelli's talent and charm (often to the point of overkill) and are compassionate about her emotional ups and downs. Streisand, however, is damned with faint praise, and Ebb recounts abusive treatment from Bob Fosse, who had undergone a recent heart bypass operation, while they were working on Chicago. In another vignette, Kander and Ebb describe how they came to write the title song for the film New York, New York for Martin Scorsese. Although they were offended when Robert DeNiro criticized their first attempt, the new version was the one that became their greatest single hit. Photos not seen by PW.
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Light, chatty interviews readably, if hardly exhaustively, survey the work and lives of two of Broadway's more successful practitioners, longtime song-writing collaborators John Kander and Fred Ebb. Each of the team's shows, misses (The Act, Steel Pier, Flora the Red Menace) as well as hits (Cabaret, Kiss of the Spider Woman, And the World Goes 'Round), is discussed, with special attention paid to Chicago, a bomb when it opened in 1975 but a worldwide hit in its 1996 revival and as an Oscar-winning movie. As-told-to coauthor Greg Lawrence has made the book resemble conversations between Kander and Ebb that readers just happen to be listening in on, to utterly beguiling effect. The collaborators speak with the ease of men who have slogged through thick and thin and still very much enjoy one another's company. The talk flows so freely, it is easy to forgive the constant digressions, occasional outbursts against critics, and frequent slighting of hard information in favor of funny, gossipy stories about such friends as Liza Minnelli. Jack Helbig
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Anyone who enjoys musical theater will delight in this anecdotal memoir by an accomplished musical team who began their partnership in 1962. The text, a series of conversations told to Lawrence (Dance with Demons: The Life of Jerome Robbins), reads like an extended gossip column written with style and wit. Composer Kander and lyricist Ebb collaborated on many Broadway shows including their first, Flora the Red Menace (1965), Cabaret (1966) and Chicago (1975). Their recollections bring the golden age of musical theater to life and reveal the nuts and bolts of creating a score for a successful musical. The two reminisce freely about stars such as Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand and Bob Fosse, with whom they had close working relationships. They lavishly praise Minnelli's talent and charm (often to the point of overkill) and are compassionate about her emotional ups and downs. Streisand, however, is damned with faint praise, and Ebb recounts abusive treatment from Bob Fosse, who had undergone a recent heart bypass operation, while they were working on Chicago. In another vignette, Kander and Ebb describe how they came to write the title song for the film New York, New York for Martin Scorsese. Although they were offended when Robert DeNiro criticized their first attempt, the new version was the one that became their greatest single hit. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Light, chatty interviews readably, if hardly exhaustively, survey the work and lives of two of Broadway's more successful practitioners, longtime song-writing collaborators John Kander and Fred Ebb. Each of the team's shows, misses (The Act, Steel Pier, Flora the Red Menace) as well as hits (Cabaret, Kiss of the Spider Woman, And the World Goes 'Round), is discussed, with special attention paid to Chicago, a bomb when it opened in 1975 but a worldwide hit in its 1996 revival and as an Oscar-winning movie. As-told-to coauthor Greg Lawrence has made the book resemble conversations between Kander and Ebb that readers just happen to be listening in on, to utterly beguiling effect. The collaborators speak with the ease of men who have slogged through thick and thin and still very much enjoy one another's company. The talk flows so freely, it is easy to forgive the constant digressions, occasional outbursts against critics, and frequent slighting of hard information in favor of funny, gossipy stories about such friends as Liza Minnelli. Jack Helbig
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Broadway's longest-running music-and-lyrics team, John Kander and Fred Ebb marked the fortieth anniversary of their collaboration with a series of conversations aimed at chronicling their careers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, Steel Pier, The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Hal Prince, Chita Rivera, The Happy Time, Bob Fosse, Fred Ebb, Harold Prince, John Kander, Los Angeles, The Visit, George Abbott, Gwen Verdon, Karen Ziemba, Rob Marshall, Red Menace, San Francisco, Scott Ellis, Anthony Quinn, Billy Flynn, Frank Rich, Joel Grey, Susan Stroman New!
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Broadway's longest-running music-and-lyrics team, John Kander and Fred Ebb marked the fortieth anniversary of their collaboration with a series of conversations aimed at chronicling their careers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
club act, stage piece, quiet thing Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Steel Pier, The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Hal Prince, Chita Rivera, The Happy Time, Bob Fosse, Fred Ebb, Harold Prince, John Kander, Los Angeles, The Visit, George Abbott, Gwen Verdon, Karen Ziemba, Rob Marshall, Red Menace, San Francisco, Scott Ellis, Anthony Quinn, Billy Flynn, Frank Rich, Joel Grey, Susan Stroman New!
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- Steel Pier by John Kander on 7 pages
- Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig on page 177, page 178, and page 180
- The kiss of the spider woman (French's musical library) by John Kander in Front Matter, page 161, and page 177
- Guys and Dolls (Score) by Frank Loesser on page 26, and page 223
- A Family Affair (Harlequin Superromance No. 205) by Sandra James on page 2, and page 3
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