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Colored Lights: Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz Paperback - 2004

by John Kander; Fred Ebb; Greg Lawrence

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Composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb are the longest-running song-writing partnership 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, their newest show, which is set to star another Kander and Ebb favorite, Chita Rivera. The pages and musicals in between reveal what has made theirs such an important and 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 artists as Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, and recalling their work with Bob Fosse on Chicago (as well as their thoughts on the Oscar-winning film version), 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.

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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.

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  • Title Colored Lights: Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz
  • Author John Kander; Fred Ebb; Greg Lawrence
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Publication date 2004-10-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780571211692 / 0571211690
  • Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.88 x 6.27 x 0.7 in (20.02 x 15.93 x 1.78 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Composers - United States, Librettists - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003009236
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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John Kander was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and Fred Ebb was born in New York City. They have worked together creating musicals and songs since 1962. They, as well as coauthor Greg Lawrence, live in New York City.

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