[Headache update: A little better. Dinner is helping.]<\/p>\n
CNN is reporting<\/a> that Fred Ebb, half of the team Kander and Ebb<\/a>, has died at age 76 of a heart attack. Yet another great footlight of Broadway has gone dim. Consider the musicals we got from Mr. Kander and Mr. Ebb: 70 Girls 70*<\/sup>, The Act*<\/sup>, Cabaret*-OBC,*-1998,Movie<\/sup>, Chicago*-OBC,*-1996,Movie<\/sup>, My Coloring Book, Curtains, Flora the Red Menace*-OBC,*-1987<\/sup>, Funny Lady, The Happy Time*<\/sup>, Kiss of the Spider Woman*<\/sup>, Over and Over, New York, New York*<\/sup>, The Rink*<\/sup>, Steel Pier*<\/sup>, The Visit, Woman of the Year*<\/sup>, and Zorba. According to CNN, at the time of Ebb’s death, the team was working on several projects including revising “Over and Over,” a musical version of Thornton Wilder’s classic “The Skin of Our Teeth,” and a murder-mystery musical called “Curtains.” Hopefully, John Kander can bring them to Broadway to give us a last look at Fred’s talent.<\/p>\n *<\/sup>: CDs\/Albums that I have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Headache update: A little better. Dinner is helping.] CNN is reporting that Fred Ebb, half of the team Kander and Ebb, has died at age 76 of a heart attack. Yet another great footlight of Broadway has gone dim. Consider the musicals we got from Mr. Kander and Mr. Ebb: 70 Girls 70*, The Act*, Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,28,1],"tags":[179],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","category-theatre","category-lj-xfer","tag-theatre-2004"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}