Edward kleban biography

Edward "Ed" Kleban (April 30, 1939 – December 28, 1987) was an American musical theatre composer and lyricist.
Ed Kleban grew up in New York, graduated from the High School of Music & Art, and got his undergraduate degree from Columbia University, where playwright.
Edward Kleban (1939-1987) was the lyricist of A Chorus Line, for which he won the 1975 Tony, Pulitzer Prize, Drama Desk and Olivier Awards.

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Edward Kleban papers
1960-1986 D

Separated material

Audiovisual materials separated from archival collections are cataloged individually and can be found in the Library catalog. Search CATNYP, The New York Public Library catalog.

The following material has been separated from the Edward Kleban Papers:

Cassette tapes - Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound [9 tapes of sessions with Chorus Line performers]

Musical scores - Music Division [unbound piano-vocal score; bound piano-conductor score; photocopy of the piano-conductor score]

Three dimensional objects - Theatre Collection three-dimensional cabinet [small Tony Award 4/18/76; New Year's Eve box office sign for Chorus Line with list of prices 12/31/80] Playbills (except Chorus Line) and

poster - Theatre Collection [Irene, 3/73 & 4/74; The Desert Song 9/73; long Chorus Line poster with dates and names of performers, 1975-1983]

Caricature - Theatre Collection/Originals [Photoreproduction of Hirshfield drawing of original Chorus Line cast]

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All I Ever Needed Was the Music: A Biography of Edward Kleban, Lyricist of "A Chorus Line" - Softcover

Synopsis

“All I Ever Needed Was the Music: A Biography of Edward Kleban, Lyricist of 'A Chorus Line'” by Phillip Sprayberry is the first biography that reviews the life of this largely under-recognized talent of the 20th Century. Edward Lawrence Kleban (1939-1987) was a figure of vital importance to the 20th Century musical theatre community whose value to the genre was, and is, underestimated. This biography discusses his personal and professional life and his value to musical theatre by examining his work as a record producer, as a student and teacher at the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, as a composer, and as a lyricist, especially regarding his contribution to the multi-award winning musical, "A Chorus Line." His work before, during, and following "A Chorus Line" is detailed with his professional life. His emotional troubles that proved to be a stumbling block to his success are included as a part of his personal life. “All I Ever Needed Was the

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Edward Kleban

Edward "Ed" Kleban (April 30, 1939 – December 28, 1987) was an American musical theatrecomposer and lyricist. Kleban was born in the Bronx, New York City, in 1939 and graduated from New York's High School of Music & Art and Columbia University, where he attended with future playwright Terrence McNally.^[1]

Kleban is best known as lyricist of the Broadway hit A Chorus Line. He and composer Marvin Hamlisch won the 1976 Tony Award for Best Original Score, and he shared the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1976 with Hamlisch and three other contributors to the musical. The one-woman Phyllis Newman show, The Madwoman of Central Park West (1979), featured a few tunes with his lyrics.^{[not verified in body]}

For several years, he worked at Columbia Records, where he produced albums by performers as diverse as Igor Stravinsky and Percy Faith,^[2] and the albums for the Off-Broadway musicals Now Is The Time For All Good Men and Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.^[3]