LibGuides: Theatre Arts: Chicago, October 2015

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Chicago by John Kander (Composed by); Fred Ebb (Composed by)
Call Number: M 150 .K355 C4

ISBN: 0881880671

Publication Date: 1981-01-01

(Vocal Selections). Our Broadway Vocal Selections book features a dozen fantastic songs from this Kander & Ebb blockbuster: All I Care About * And All That Jazz * Class * Funny Honey * A Little Bit of Good * Me and My Baby * Mister Cellophane * My Own Best Friend * Nowadays * Razzle Dazzle * Roxie * When You're Good to Mama.
Chicago by John Kander (Composed by); Fred Ebb (Composed by)
Call Number: M 1508 .K355 C5 2002

ISBN: 0634059556

Publication Date: 2003-02-01

(Vocal Selections). We're very proud to present this deluxe piano/vocal folio featuring music from the movie sensation Chicago Oscar winner for Movie of the Year! In addition to 8 pages of sizzling color photos from the film, this book differs from the Broadway Vocal Selections (00312087) by featuring three songs that have never before appeared in print ("Cell Block Tango," "We Both Reached for the Gun," "I Can't Do It Alone"), and the Oscar-nominated new song "I Move On" written especially for the movie by Kander and Ebb the show's original composer and lyricist. This folio also includes a history of the show on stage, and new editions of the songs "And All That Jazz," "Roxie" and "Nowadays" transposed into lower keys (as sung in the movie) for belters, in addition to the classic numbers "Funny Honey," "When You're Good to Mama," "All I Care About," "Mister Cellophane," "Razzle Dazzle" and "Class," for a total of 13 terrific songs in all!
Colored Lights by John Kander; Fred Ebb; Greg Lawrence; Liza Minnelli (Introduction by); Harold Prince (Foreword by)
Call Number: ML 410 .K163 A3 2003

ISBN: 057121133x

Publication Date: 2003-11-05

The autobiography, in dialogue, of the composer and lyricist ofChicagoandCabaretas well as a wise and witty memoir of forty years of American musicals. Composer 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 asChicago,Cabaret, andKiss 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, fromFlora, The Red Menace(starring a then-unknown Liza) toThe Visit, 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 ofCabaret, reflecting on the superstar mentality of such artist as Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, and recalling their work with Bob Fosse onChicago(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.

Performances

Chicago will be performed at Price Theater on:

October 8, 9, and 10, 2015, at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, October 11th, 2015, at 2:30 p.m.

Saturday, October 17th, 2015 at 1 p.m.

Sunday, October 18th, 2015 at 2:30 p.m.

Chicago

Chicago, with a score by John Kander and Fred Ebb, and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse, opened on Broadway in 1975 and ran for more than two years. It was revived in 1996 and is still running; the revival is now the second-longest running musical in Broadway history. The film version won the 2003 Oscar as best movie of the year.

Library Resources

Lewis Library has the following resources for Chicago:

Libretto (call number ML 50 .K73 1976, 2 copies)
Vocal selections (12 songs) from the stage version (M1508 .K355 C4)
Vocal selections (13 songs) from the 2002 film (M1508 .K355 C5 2002)
CD of the 1976 original Broadway cast (on order)
CD of the 1996 revival (CD M1505 .K166 C48 1996)
DVD of the film (DVD PN1997 .C412 2002

Other works by or about Kander and Ebb (the composer and lyricist) and Bob Fosse (the original director-choreographer):

Vocal score of And the World Goes ’Round: The Songs of Kander and Ebb (M1503 .K1725 A5 1998X)
CD of And the World Goes ’Round (CD M1503 .K1725 A53 1991)
Libretto of Cabaret (ML50 .K173 C32 1967 or PN1999 .M365 B73 1999; also in American Musicals 1950-1969, ML48 .A44 2014 v.2)
DVD of Cabaret (1972 film directed by Bob Fosse) (DVD PN1997 .C143 2003)
Vocal selections from Kander and Ebb’s score for the movie New York, New York (M1508 .N47 1990)
CD of Kiss of the Spider Woman (CD M1505 .K166 K59 1992)
Leve, James. Kander and Ebb. Yale University Press, 2009. Available as an e-book
Grubb, Kevin Boyd. Razzle Dazzle: The Life and Times of Bob Fosse. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989. (GV1785 .F67 G78 1989)

Interviews with Kander and Ebb:

Zinsser, William. Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs. (ML3477 .Z577 2001) (interview on pp. 234-242)
Art of the American Musical: Conversations with the Creators. Rutgers University Press, 2005. (interview on pp. 95-111; can be accessed here )
“Life’s Been a Cabaret.” Los Angeles Times March 17, 1996, p. 8.
“The Difference between Kander and Ebb.” American Theatre 14.2 (Feb. 1997) 10-14.
“‘Chicago’ Songwriting Team Took Faith and Ran with It.” USA Today March 5, 2003 p. 5
“Just Got Lucky.” American Theatre 20.9 (Nov. 2003) 22-26, 108-109.