Sara Ramirez (hugging Tony Award winning member of A Chorus Line Pricilla Lopez), Nancy Anderson and Jeff Blumenkrantz take various real life and fictionalized roles in A Class Act, which opened March 11 at the Ambassador Theatre.
A Class Act, an intimate biographical tuner, tells the fictionalized life story of Broadway songwriter Edward Kleban (Lonny Price), who always wanted his work played (as they say in the show), "in a large building in a central part of town in a dark room as part of a play with a lot of people listening, who have all paid a great deal to get it in." Kleban died of cancer before he matched the success he had contributing lyrics to 1975's A Chorus Line, his best known work.
