{"product_id":"9781429928328","title":"Colored Lights: Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe autobiography, in dialogue, of the composer and lyricist of \u003ci\u003eChicago\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCabaret \u003c\/i\u003eas well as a wise and witty memoir of forty years of American musicals.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComposer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb are the longest-running composer-lyricist team in Broadway history, having first joined forces in 1962. The creators of such groundbreaking musicals as \u003ci\u003eChicago\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCabaret\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKiss of the Spider Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, 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).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eColored Lights covers the major shows of Kander and Ebb's partnership, from \u003ci\u003eFlora, The Red Menace \u003c\/i\u003e(starring a then-unknown Liza) to \u003ci\u003eThe Visit\u003c\/i\u003e, due to open on Broadway in 2004. The pages and musicals in between reveal what has made theirs such a long-lived musical partnership--and one so valued by the artists they have worked with. In recounting the genesis and controversies of \u003ci\u003eCabaret\u003c\/i\u003e, reflecting on the superstar mentality of such artist as Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, and recalling their work with Bob Fosse on \u003ci\u003eChicago \u003c\/i\u003e(as well as their views on the blockbuster 2002 film), 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124633387248,"sku":"9781429928328","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429928328_p0.jpg?v=1769901177","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429928328","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}