Edward Kleban

An American lyricist who wrote the words for the Broadway hit A Chorus Line, sharing the 1976 Tony Award for Best Original Score with composer Marvin Hamlisch and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama awarded to the show's creative team the same year. He spent years producing records at Columbia, working with artists as varied as Igor Stravinsky and Percy Faith, and later taught at the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop.