3723 - We Write the Songs that Make the Whole World Sing (Bill Nigut)
Course Description
Instructor: Bill Nigut
We Write the Songs that Make the Whole World Sing
Bill explores the lives and work of some of the most prolific and beloved songwriters of popular music. Burt Bacharach...Carol King...Jimmy Webb. They wrote innumerable hits that others recorded, but we'll look at the way in which they stepped into the spotlight, too.
Bio: Bill Nigut has been best known for his career as an Atlanta television and radio political analyst and reporter. But it is less known that he studied acting and theater history at one of the most prestigious theater colleges in the country - the Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago. He founded his own theater company in his hometown of Chicago, studied improvisation at Second City, and was a member of a Chicago improvisation troupe developed by improvisation guru Del Close. Bill saw his first Broadway musical - the original production of The Sound of Music starring Mary Martin - when he was 12 years old - and has been passionate about musicals and straight plays ever since.