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[eb] / ɛb /




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“When someone asks me about Liza,” the lyricist Fred Ebb once said, “I say that’s like asking a kid about Christmas.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

The songs themselves are the same rather-forgettable numbers by John Kander and Fred Ebb who did a zingier job mixing fascism with feathers in “Cabaret.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

Douglas McCarthy, the singer of the pioneering U.K. proto-industrial band Nitzer Ebb, has died.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2025

Others arise from Frecknall’s staging itself, which is spectacular when in additive mode, illuminating the classic score by John Kander and Fred Ebb, and the amazingly sturdy book by Joe Masteroff.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2024

So it was to Scaithe's Ebb that Lord Primus of Stormhold came one night, all dressed in black with a beard as thick and serious as one of the storks' nests in the town's chimneys.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman




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