Fiz: And Some Theatre Giants
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (775 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1460201027 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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It's an amazing line-up: among performers, from Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge and George Formby to Barry Humphries, Alec Guinness, Laurence Olivier; among directors, Tony Richardson, John Schlesinger, and Stephen Frears; among writers, John Osborne and the legendary Beyond the Fringe team - Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore. "Tell the truth," her friend the director Lindsay Anderson urged Eleanor Fazan. Along the way we get musicians too: her husband Stanley Myers, composer of "Cavatina," the haunting theme from The Deerhunter, and the god-like maestro Herbert von Karajan. "It's seldom heard." Nor is it easy to tell. Her true stories of professional relationships are funny, affectionate, sometimes searing; always enlightening about the agonies and ecstasies of what goes on behind the scenes.. Fiz's memoir offers a modest, frank, and often startlingly perceptive account of the delights and difficulties
Juliet McMaster said Super read for theatre abd showbiz buffs. FIZ is the memoir of Eleanor Fazan, an extraordinary but insufficiently-known theatre personality with a long career in dance, direction, and choreography for film and opera.This dancer-turned director and chreographer was born in Kenya and trained at Sadlers Wells. What an amazingly long and varied career! Her first show put her in contact with