Fay Kanin

Also credited on2 works

Grind
The Gay Life

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In the literature4 passages

• Grind had begun its long journey toward a life on Broadway in 1975 when writer Fay Kanin was approached by a pair of producers from Universal Studios to prepare a screenplay about a bi-racial burlesque house in 1930s Chicago. Kanin prepared the script but the project never materialized. Toward the end of 1982, Kanin approached Prince, an…Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson
• Original Broadway book musicals referenced in this chapter: Grind (opened April 1985 at the Mark Hellinger Theater), book by Fay Kanin, music by Larry Grossman, lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh; Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (opened April 1985 at the Eugene O'Neill Theater), book by William Hauptman, music and lyrics by Roger Mill…Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer
• Instead, it became a very specific story about a burlesque house and its goings on. That is what Fay Kanin had written as a movie originally—but they didn’t make the movie, and I wanted to tear the material apart. I didn’t persist. I might have failed, but that’s what I should have done.Untold Stories of Broadway, Part 2, The - Jennifer Ashley Tepper
• GRIND Music by Lam Grossman; Lyrics, Ellen Fitzhugh; Book. Fay Kanin: Direccor. Harold Prince; Choreographer. Lester Wilson: Presented by Kenneth D Greenblatl. Nederiander. John J Pomerantz. Mary Lea Johnson. Martin Richards. James Harold Prince. Michael Frazier in association with Susan Madden Samson and Jonathan Farkas; Scenery, Clarke…Theatre World, 1984-85 Season, v. 41 (Willis)

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