Thomas Meehan (writer)
| Thomas Meehan | |
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 Meehan in 2006 |
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| Born | 1934 (age 77–78) |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | United States |
| Alma mater | Hamilton College |
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| Notable work(s) | Annie The Producers Hairspray |
| Works with | Mel Brooks |
| Awards | Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical |
Thomas Meehan (born 1934[1]) is an American writer, best known for Annie, The Producers and Hairspray.
[edit] Life and career
Meehan grew up in Suffern, New York, and graduated from Hamilton College.[1] He moved to New York at age 24, and worked at The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town".[2]
He has received the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times: Annie (1977), his Broadway debut, The Producers (2001), and subsequently shared the 2003 award with Mark O'Donnell for Hairspray.[3]
Additional credits include Ain't Broadway Grand, Oh, Kay!, Bombay Dreams, a musical adaptation of I Remember Mama, and Annie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge, which was subsequently reworked and re-staged off-Broadway as Annie Warbucks.[4] He also wrote the libretto to the opera 1984.[3]
In addition, Meehan is a long-time contributor of humor to The New Yorker, an Emmy Award-winning writer of television comedy, and a collaborator on a number of screenplays, including Mel Brooks' Spaceballs, a remake of To Be or Not to Be, the film adaptation of The Producers, and One Magic Christmas.
Meehan's latest projects are Young Frankenstein, a 2007 musical stage adaptation of the 1974 film of the same name, Cry-Baby, and Elf the Musical, which he co-wrote with Bob Martin.[3][5]
He later co-wrote the book to the La Jolla Playhouse's 2010 production of Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin. In 2011 he revised the book originally written by the later Peter Stone for the off-Broadway musical Death Takes a Holiday (musical) with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston.
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Thomas Meehan bio" cityfile.com, accessed March 12, 2011. according to this biography, Meehan was born in 1929)
- ^ Gurley, George and Larocca, Amy. "Thomas Meehan, Writer - Horst of Fifth Avenue", The New York Observer, November 14, 1999.
- ^ a b c "Thomas Meehan". Who's Who, playbill.com, Retrieved 30 January 2011.
- ^ Rothstein, Mervyn. "Troubled 'Annie 2' Closing Out of Town; Revisions Planned". The New York Times, January 16, 1990
- ^ Hetrick, Adam."Beth Leavel, Mark Jacoby and George Wendt to Star in Elf – The Musical on Broadway" playbill.com, August 11, 2010
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