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The Tony Award winning lyricist of A CHORUS LINE was hell-bent on writing both the words and music for a Broadway show, a goal unrealized in 1987 when he died of cancer at the age of 48. Only posthumously would Ed's songs garner the acclaim they always deserved, in the biographical musical A CLASS ACT. Ed got his start in the BMI Musical Theater Workshop where he largely amasses the charismatic songbook that has been arranged in A CLASS ACT to dramatize Ed's often hilarious, ultimately heartbreaking journey. An ensemble of 7 inhabit the colorful gallery of friends and loved ones in Ed's life including the legendarily acerbic Lehman Engle, the relentlessly peppy Marvin Hamlisch, and Über-creative Michael Bennett. Fourteen years after his death, one of the theater's unsung champions finally got the recognition he always deserved in this vibrant musical about musicals.

Acte I
Light on My Feet – Ed and Company
The Fountain in the Garden – Company
One More Beautiful Song – Ed and Sophie
Fridays at Four – Company
Bobby's Song – Bobby
Charm Song – Lehman and Company
Paris Through The Window – Ed, Bobby and Charley
Mona – Mona
Under Separate Cover – Sophie, Lucy and Ed
Don't Do It Again – Felicia and Ed
Gauguin's Shoes – Ed and Company
Don't Do It Again (Reprise) – Lehman
Follow Your Star – Sophie and Ed

Acte II
Better – Ed and Company
Scintillating Sophie – Ed
The Next Best Thing To Love – Sophie
Broadway Boogie Woogie – Lucy
Better (Reprise) – Ed and Company
I Choose You – Ed and Lucy
The Nightmare – Ed
Say Something Funny – Company
When the Dawn Breaks – Ed
Self Portrait – Ed

Ed – Edward Kleban, lyricist and composer
Sophie – Ed's oldest friend and first love, an oncologist
Lehman Engel – head of the songwriting workshop
Michael Bennett – director/ choreographer of A Chorus Line
Marvin Hamlisch – composer of A Chorus Line
Lucy – Ed's last significant other, member of the BMI Workshop
Felicia – Ed's boss at Columbia Records, member of the BMI Workshop
Bobby – Ed's best friend, member of the BMI Workshop
Charlie – a friend from the workshop, member of the BMI Workshop
Mona – one of Ed's many love affairs, member of the BMI Workshop

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