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SUMMER PROGRAM 2012
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Mermaid
,
Beauty and the Beast
,
Aladdin
,
Newsies
,
Pocahontas
,
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
,
Hercules
and
Home on the Range
. Other achievements: A
Billboard #1 album (
Pocahontas
) and #1 single (
A
Whole New World
). Awards include 8 Academy
Awards, 7 Golden Globes, 10 Grammys, the
London Evening Standard Award, the Olivier,
the New York Drama Critics Award, the Drama
Desk, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for
Best Musical. Upcoming stage adaptations of
The Little Mermaid
and
Leap of Faith
, live-action
film adaptations of
A Christmas Carol
and
The
Hunchback of Notre Dame
plus the film
Noel
.
HOWARD ASHMAN
(
Lyrics
) wrote the lyrics
for the Disney animated films
The Little Mermaid
,
Beauty and the Beast
and
Aladdin
(three songs)
and served as producer on
The Little Mermaid
and executive producer on
Beauty and the Beast
.
With composer Alan Menken, he received two
Academy Awards and two Golden Globes for Best
Song (
Beauty and the Beast
and
Under the Sea
) and
four Grammy Awards. He received an Academy
Award nomination with Mr. Menken for
Friend
Like Me
from
Aladdin
. As author, lyricist and
director for the stage musical
Little Shop of Horrors
which ran for five years in New York and has
been produced worldwide, Mr. Ashman received
two Outer Critics Circle Awards, a New York
Drama Critics Circle Award, a London Evening
Standard Award and a Drama Desk Award. For
his screenplay version of
Little Shop of Horrors
, Mr.
Ashman received a nomination from the Screen
Writers Guild and
Mean Green Mother From Outer
Space
was nominated (with Mr. Menken) for an
Academy Award for Best Song. He was author,
lyricist and director of
Smile
for which he received
a Tony® nomination for Best Book. His other
credits include:
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
;
The
Confirmation
(his only full-length play); Artistic
Director: WPA Theatre (1976-1982). Born on
May 17, 1950 in Baltimore, Mr. Ashman died at
age 40 of complications due to AIDS on March
14, 1991 in New York City.
TIM RICE
(
Lyrics
) was born in 1944. From 1956-
1965 he wanted to be Elvis. Then he met Andrew
Lloyd Webber whose musical ambitions were in
theatre rather than rock. They joined forces, as one
could knock out a decent tune and the other had a
way with words. They wrote four shows together.
The first,
The Likes of Us
(1965-66), was never
performed, but
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor®
Dreamcoat
(1968),
Jesus Christ Superstar
(1969-71)
and
Evita
(1976-78) became, and indeed remain,
hugely successful all around the world, on both
stage and screen. Feeling certain that they could
never top this lot, the pair went their separate ways
in the early eighties, whereupon Andrew Lloyd
Webber immediately topped that lot with
Cats
.
Tim Rice then wrote
Blondel
(1983), a medieval
romp, with Stephen Oliver, which ran for a year in
London, but not for long anywhere else. In 1986
came
Chess
, written with ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus
and Benny Andersson.
Chess
had a healthy UK
run but flopped on Broadway in 1988, the
New York Times bloke simply not getting it. In
1989 Rice translated the famous French Berger-
Plamondon musical
Starmania
into English which
merely resulted in a hit album in France. In the
90s he worked primarily with the Disney empire,
contributing lyrics to the movies
Aladdin
(music
Alan Menken) and
The Lion King
, (music Elton
John and Hans Zimmer) and to the stage shows
Beauty and the Beast
(Alan Menken),
The Lion
King
and
Aida
(both Sir Elton). In lunch breaks
he wrote the words for Cliff Richard’s theatrical
extravaganza
Heathcliff
(music John Farrar)
which toured the UK in 1995-96. He is currently
reworking an operatic musical he has written
with Alan Menken (
King David
), and on new
treatments, for both stage and screen, of
Chess
,
the New York Times bloke having been replaced.
He also has a new idea which may or may not see
the light of day. He has won many awards, mainly
for the wrong things, or for simply turning up.
He lives in England, has three children, his own
cricket team and a knighthood (that’s Sir Tim to
you).
CHAD BEGUELIN
(
Book/Additional Lyrics
)
wrote the lyrics for
Elf: The Musical
and wrote
the lyrics and co-book for
The Wedding Singer
(Tony® award nominations for Best Book and Best
Original Score, Drama Desk Award nomination
for Outstanding Lyrics). He also wrote the book
and lyrics for
Judas & Me
(NYMF Award for
excellence in Lyric Writing),
The Rhythm Club
(Signature Theatre), and
Wicked City
(American
Stage Company, Mason Street Warehouse.) He
is the recipient of the Edward Kleban Award for
Outstanding Lyric Writing, the Jonathan Larson