Phillip Sprayberry
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About
Sprayberry’s latest book is CHEERS! The Joy of Toasting, a new source for tools to find or create the perfect toast for special occasions. He is also the author of All I Ever Needed Was the Music: A biography of Ed Kleban, lyricist of “A Chorus Line,” and is working on a business and social communications book to guide college students in their transition from the classroom to the workplace.
“Sprayberry’s book CHEERS! The Joy of Toasting shows us how to make the most of our toasts—elegantly and eloquently. Keep this important book on your desk.”
-Charlotte Eulette, Co-founder of the Celebrant Foundation & Institute, author of Real.Vibrant: Poems for All That Matters
CHEERS! The Joy of Toasting by Phillip Sprayberry Is a new source to give you tools to find or create the perfect toast for a special occasion. It is an introductory course in toasting to be used as a guide for novice and advanced speakers who want to create memories and honor special people and occasions.
Need the perfect toast for an event? This easy read contains more than 100 toasts covering dozens of occasions. Still can’t find a “just right” toast? Explore the section on how to write your own toast and, as icing on the cake, review the step-by-step guides to give you the tools to prepare and present your toast.
All I Ever Needed Was the Music: A Biography of Edward Kleban, Lyricist of ”A Chorus Line” by Phillip Sprayberry is the first biography of this under-recognized talent of the 20th Century. Kleban was a figure of vital importance to the musical theatre community and the biography discusses his personal and professional life and his value to musical theatre by examining his work as a record producer, as a student and teacher at the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, as a composer, and as a lyricist, especially regarding his contribution to the multi-award winning musical, A Chorus Line.