Eric Blau

Milton Eric Blau ( born June 1, 1921 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, † February 17, 2009 in New York City ) was an American writer. He was one of the authors of the musical Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.

Life

Eric Blue is the son of Hungarian immigrants and grew up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. His father worked in New York as a taxi driver. Blue attended the City College of New York, but came to no conclusion. During World War II he was with the U.S. Army to Europe, where he published his first poems translated in French magazines. After returning to America, he worked as a freelance writer and advertising. He has worked as a ghostwriter for various sporting greats, designed The Adventures of Danny Dee, a TV show for children, and published the Communist- literary journal Masses and Mainstream.

With Jacques Brel blue made ​​in 1960 known American music producer Nat Shapiro. Blue translated for the actress and singer Elly Stone the three Chansons Marieke, La valse à mille temps (as Crazy Carousel ) and Ne me quitte pas (as If You Go Away ). The following year he designed a musical revue called O Oysters! , In which he included the songs, and ran the three months at the Village Hall in Greenwich Village. Six years later it came to working with the musicians and sawyers Mort Shuman, with the blue of the musical revue Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris designed.

The musical was about four years of 22 January 1968 on the program of the Village Gate and became one of the three longest- running Off- Broadway musical in history. Several thousand other productions joined world. After this success, Blue wrote books, poetry and novels, and produced some more off-Broadway musicals, without being able to build on the success of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris.

Eric Blue was twice married. His second wife was the singer Elly Stone. From the two marriages come three sons. Blue died in 2009 as a result of pneumonia after a stroke.

Works

  • Jacques Brel is alive and well and living in Paris. E. P. Dutton, New York 1971
  • Let me tell you about Moses. An experience of Israel. Bobbs- Merrill, Indianapolis 1972
  • The keys to Billy Tillio. Pinnacle, New York, 1984
  • The beggar 's cup (novel). Knopf, New York 1993 German: The Beggar cup. Luebbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1994
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