Marni Nixon performing "Vivaldi" from the PBS Great Performance Series presentation of TAKING MY TURN, the award-winning, critically acclaimed musical with lyrics by Will Holt , music by Gary William Friedman and adaptation/direction by Robert H. Livingston, the same team that collaborated on the hit show THE ME NOBODY KNOWS.
TAKING MY TURN was one of the first musicals to deal with aging. The spoken words were collected from interviews with people "in their prime", which became the basis for the non-linear book.
The amazing cast of Broadway and recording veterans including Margaret Whiting, Cissy Houston, Marni Nixon and Tiger Haynes.
TAKING MY TURN opened Off-Broadway in 1983, and won the 1984 Outer Critic's Circle Award for Best Lyrics/Music and a Drama Desk nomination for Best Musical.
PBS Video Courtesy Sonny Fox Productions.
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