Just as Frank Sinatra had an additional and invaluable career as
the great preservationist and evangelist of the American popular
song (with particular focus on the Lost and Found), so
author-actor-singer-director Bruce Kimmel has additionally served
the cause of Broadway and Hollywood beyond measure, producing some
of the most memorable vocalists of our time in recordings that give
new life to music that might otherwise be forgotten, while renewing
and revitalizing the theatrical canon with his impeccable taste and
unerring musicality. In his usual engaging and endearing style, he
at last gives us a first-hand view of his process. For this
terrific chronicle, and for his immeasurable contribution to
musical theatre, we can only give our most inadequate thanks.
-Rupert Holmes, Tony and Edgar award-winning playwright and
novelist Bruce Kimmel's rollicking memoir, There's Mel, There's
Woody, and There's You, left his fans begging for more. Thankfully,
the theatre gods are kind and answered our prayers. Actor,
director, composer, playwright, novelist, film-maker...and good at
all of them, Kimmel has reinvented himself more times than Madonna
and had more lives than a cat. In Album Produced by..., he now
shape-shifts into what may be his greatest theatrical
incarnation-as the foremost album producer of theatre music in the
last twenty-five years. Through time and labels, his amazing career
fluctuates with more highs and lows than the sliding dials on a
soundboard and is sweetened with the usual Kimmel witlaced
raconteurism.Whether working with the greats (Carol Channing,
Lauren Bacall, Dorothy Louden, Ann-Margret, to name a few) or
promoting and often discovering the next big musical stars of
Broadway, our intrepid hero battles lessthan- visionary bosses,
broken promises, harried orchestrators, enraged engineers, the
occasional disgruntled diva, and the mysterious crooner, Guy
Haines. But he manages to defeat all obstacles and egos in his way,
emerging triumphant to dance in divine syncopation with the
glorious music he creates. To know the stories behind all those
wonderful albums is to listen to them with fresh ears and a new
appreciation of the talent, tears, and genius that went into them.
-Charles Edward Pogue, screenwriter of Dragonheart, DOA, & The
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