In addition to his legacy as a songwriter, Mr. Kleban’s music and lyrics comprise the score of the musical A Class Act, produced on Broadway in 2001, for which he was posthumously nominated for a Tony and a Drama Desk Award. Kleban’s first Broadway musical, and his lyrics won 1975 Tony, Drama Desk and Olivier Awards as well as the Pulitzer Prize. Hamlisch is a graduate of both the Julliard School of Music and Queens College.ĮDWARD KLEBAN ( Lyrics) A Chorus Line was Mr.
He is the composer of more than 40 motion picture scores including his Oscar-winning score and song for The Way We Were and his adaptation of Scott Joplin’s music for The Sting, for which he received a third Oscar. MARVIN HAMLISCH ( Music) is the composer of the Broadway musicals They’re Playing Our Song and Sweet Smell of Success and shared the Pulitzer Prize for his score of A Chorus Line. He also authored a screenplay, Fake Lady, and a musical based on the life of Al Jolson entitled Jolson Tonight. The final result earned him a Pulitzer Prize, a Tony Award and many other honors. He danced in the choruses of Applause and other Broadway shows as well as various TV shows and nightclubs while pursuing his dream of becoming a writer when Michael Bennett, a friend, called and asked him to collaborate on the first draft of the book for A Chorus Line. NICHOLAS DANTE ( Book) Real name: Conrado Morales. Other plays include dramtizations of There Must Be a Pony!, P.S. His nonfiction books include American Grotesque and Diary of a Mad Playwright: Perilous Adventures on the Road With Mary Martin and Carol Channing about the road tour of his play, Legends. Your Cat Is Dead!, Some Kind of Hero and Hit Me With a Rainbow. His novels include There Must Be a Pony!, Good Times/Bad Times, P.S.
JAMES KIRKWOOD ( Book) was a Broadway and television actor as well as half of the the comedy team Kirkwood and Goodman before taking up writing.
He won his seventh Tony Award for 1981’s Dreamgirls and directed its acclaimed 1987 Broadway revival. In 1979 he produced, directed and choreographed Ballroom, which was nominated for eight Tony Awards and won Mr. In 1976 he and the other authors of A Chorus Line were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for dama. A Chorus Line, which he conceived, choreographed and directed, won nine Tony Awards. In 1973 he made his debut as a dramtic director with Twigs which starred Sada Thompson. MICHAEL BENNETT ( Conception, Original Director/Choreographer) choreographed Promises, Promises Coco Company Follies (which he co-directed with Harold Prince) and Seesaw (which he also wrote and directed).
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