Funny Collaborators
ABOUT • GALLERY • REVIEWS • HISTORY • SONG CLIPS • COLLABORATORS
Lois Wyse (Book and Lyrics), the best-selling author of more than 60 published books, has written books for children, five novels (one of which was made into a CBS Movie of the Week), books about business, poetry (Love Poems for the Very Married sold in excess of 500,000 copies), and most recently, books that touch on the topics closest to the heart: family, friendship, home, love. Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother, was on the New York Times' Best Seller List for 19 weeks and appeared as #1 on the paperback list. Women Make the Best Friends has sold 200,000 copies to date. Wyse writes the weekly "Wyse Words", an advice column which runs in newspapers throughout the United States as well as on the internet and has written for many magazines including Vogue, Women's Day, Family Circle and for thirteen years, was a contributing editor of Good Housekeeping. As president of Wyse Advertising, she has been involved in marketing and creative supervision for many well-known companies. She has been named Man of the Year by the Cleveland Advertising Club, an outstanding working mother by Working Woman magazine, and was an honoree of Birmingham College for Women. Wyse is the widow of Lee Guber, the theatrical producer, a mother and grandmother.
Robert Waldman (Music) has spent the majority of his career writing for the theater. Beginning
as a protégé fo Frank Loesser, his music has been heard in the World and Broadway premieres
of Alfred Uhry's new play The Last Night of Ballyhoo, in New York in The Heiress and Voice in
the Dark, as well as Florida's Poinciana and Parker Playhouse productions of Funny, You Don't
Look Like a Grandmother.He wrote the incidental music for the New York and National Productions of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Driving Miss Daisy, for which he won Chicago's Jeff Award for Best Music for
Dramatic Work. Waldman composed the music for Broadway's Here's Where I Belong
and The Robber Bridegroom, which was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. His music has been heard in the New York production of Lincoln Center's Ivanov, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, and David Mamet's A Life in the Theater, Peter Panell's The Rise and Fall of Daniel Rocket, Jon Robin Baitz' A Fair Country, The Glass Menagerie,Hartford Stage's musical American Sweetheart, Long Warf's As You Like It, The School for Scandal as well as the Kennedy Center's musical Swing and The Washington Shakespeare Theater's The Country Wife and Richard II. Performances of Waldman compositions have taken place in film, television, ballets, numerous commercials and concert halls.G. Schirmer publishes illustrated collections of some forty of his piano compositions, among them A Swing Bag: A Rag Bag: A 3/4 Bag: and
A Santa Bag.