Background
Kleban was born in the Bronx, New York in 1939 and graduated from New York"s High School of Music & Art and Columbia University, where he attended with future playwright Terrance McNally.
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This book is divided into two sections; The Piano/Vocal Section and the Lead Line Section. Each contains the 10 songs: * I Hope I Get It, * I Can Do That, * At The Ballet, * Sing!, * Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love, * Nothing, * The Music And The Mirror, * Dance: Ten; Looks: Three, * One, * What I Did For Love.
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(Applause Libretto Library). It is hard to believe that over 25 years have passed since A Chorus Line first electrified a New York audience. The memories of the show's birth in 1975, not to mention those of its 15-year-life and poignant death, remain incandescent and not just because nothing so exciting has happened to the American musical since. For a generation of theater people and theatergoers, A Chorus Line was and is the touchstone that defines the glittering promise, more often realized in lengend than in reality, of the Broadway way. This impressive book contains the complete book and lyrics of one of the longest running shows in Broadway history with a preface by Samuel Freedman, an introduction by Frank Rich and lots of photos from the stage production.
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Kleban was born in the Bronx, New York in 1939 and graduated from New York"s High School of Music & Art and Columbia University, where he attended with future playwright Terrance McNally.
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia College, 1960.
Kleban is best known as lyricist of the Broadway hit A Chorus Lincolnshire. The one-woman Phyllis Newman show, The Madwoman of Central Park West (1979), featured a few tunes with his lyrics. Foreign several years he worked at Columbia Records, where he produced albums by performers as diverse as Igor Stravinsky and Percy Faith and the album for the Office-Broadway musical Now Is The Time Foreign All Good Men.
He was a teacher for many years at the BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) Musical Theater Workshop.
Kleban died of complications from throat cancer on December 28, 1987 at Saint Vincent"s Hospital in New New York In his will, Kleban established the Kleban Foundation which grants annual awards, each in the amount of $100,000 over two years, to the most promising librettist and lyricist in American musical theatre.
The awards are administered by BMI. Kline sought someone who did not know or work with Kleban, but who would learn about him through the material. She admired previous work of Lonny Price and sought him as a collaborator.
After six years of work, with Price and Kline as co-authors, Price directed and played the role of Editor in A Class Acting, a musical biography of Kleban with a score consisting of songs he wrote for numerous unproduced musicals.
After a two-month run at the Manhattan Theatre Club, it transferred to the Ambassador Theatre on March 10, 2001 and ran for three additional months.
(Includes 10 songs with piano/vocal section and lead line ...)
(This book is divided into two sections; The Piano/Vocal S...)
("One", song from the Joseph Papp Production of Michael Be...)
(3 songs from Chorus Line arranged for piano)
(4 PAGE INTERMEDIATE PIANO SOLO.)
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(Hal Leonard 08565753)
(8 page sheet music)
Member of Broadcast Music, Inc., American Federation Musicians, Dramatists Guild.