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Fay Kanin

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Book Writer 1917–2013

Fay Kanin (née Mitchell; May 9, 1917 – March 27, 2013) was an American screenwriter, playwright and producer. Kanin was president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1979 to 1983.

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…ebooks/Ilson, Carol/Harold Prince_ A Director's Journey - Carol Ilson.txt
  • 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…ebooks/Singer, Barry/Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer.txt
  • 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.ebooks/Tepper, Jennifer Ashley/Untold Stories of Broadway, Part 2, The - Jennifer Ashley Tepper.txt
  • 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-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1984-85 Season, v. 41 (Willis).txt

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