Authors! with Bruce Vilanch

Schedule

Thu Apr 10 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Main Library - Toledo Lucas County Public Library | Toledo, OH

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Join us for Authors! with actor, writer, and comedian Bruce Vilanch!
About this Event

Toledo Lucas County Public Library is excited to welcome Bruce Vilanch to Toledo!

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Bruce Vilanch is known as a go-to comedy writer for award shows, sitcoms, and top-heavy
variety specials, but he has also been responsible for quite a few of the worst shows ever put on television—legendarily bad productions.

Some of his work lives in infamy—THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL, THE PAUL LYNDE
HALLOWEEN SPECIAL, Rob Lowe dancing with Snow White at the Oscars, and THE BRADY
BUNCH VARIETY HOUR. How did these ever seem like a good idea?


Well, everyone has screwed up a few times, or had their work screwed up by others. IT SEEMED LIKE A BAD IDEA AT THE TIME is a lifetime reflection of what Vilanch has experienced, learned, forgotten, dismissed, and embraced in decades of working in show business, specifically the south forty acres known as comedy. It involves very famous people and people who were not very famous but should have been.

And it explains to the person in the audience who says to himself, once he has gotten his jaw off the floor, “How did this ever get made?”


Don’t we all want to know?


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Bruce Vilanch is an actor (occasionally an actress), writer (occasionally a rewriter), and
comedian (occasionally for money, often for causes). He has coauthored twenty-five
Academy Award spectacles, winning two writing Emmys in the process, and has been
nominated for seven more. In addition to the Oscars, he has cowritten many Tonys, Emmys,
Grammys, People’s Choice, American Comedy Awards, TV Land Awards, SAG Awards, and a ton of other pageants, roasts, tributes, and various trumped-up reasons for people to strut a red carpet. He has coauthored dozens of variety television shows and actually put words in the mouth of Cher. He’s also a lyricist, scoring gold and platinum records for disco songs he wrote for Eartha Kitt and the Village People. And musical theatre geeks will remember him as the coauthor of the Broadway misfire called PLATINUM, which was revived off-Broadway for reasons that continue to mystify Bruce.


ABOUT THE PRESENTATION:

This moderated conversation will last about forty-five minute and will be followed by a brief question and answer session.

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Main Library - Toledo Lucas County Public Library, 325 North Michigan Street, Toledo, United States

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