What Tony Award has the Allan Knee penned musical and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels light designer been nominated for ten times?
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Kenneth Posner Kenneth Posner is an American theatrical lighting designer, working on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in American regional theatre. His most notable designs include the musicals "Wicked" and "Hairspray", two highly regarded musicals of the early 21st century. He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design 10 times, including nods for "Merchant of Venice" (2011), "The Coast of Utopia" (2007), "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" (2005), "Wicked" (2004), "Hairspray" (2003), and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (2001). He has also been nominated 10 times for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design, and won both the Tony and Drama Desk award in 2007 for "The Coast of Utopia". He also has received an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting. He also designed the lights for "Little Women".
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Little Women (musical) Little Women is a musical with a book by Allan Knee, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, and music by Jason Howland.
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Tony Macaulay Tony Macaulay (born Anthony Gordon Instone, 21 April 1944, England) is an English author, composer for musical theatre, and songwriter. He has won the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors Award twice as 'Songwriter of the Year' (1970 and 1977). He is a nine time Ivor Novello Awards winning songwriter. In 2007, he became the only British person to win the Edwin Forrest Award for outstanding contribution to the American theatre.
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John Lithgow John Arthur Lithgow ( ; born October 19 , 1945) is an American actor, musician, singer, comedian, voice actor, and author. He has received two Tony Awards, six Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, an American Comedy Award, four Drama Desk Awards and has also been nominated for two Academy Awards and four Grammy Awards. Lithgow has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and has been inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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Tony Kushner Anthony Robert "Tony" Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play "". He co-authored with Eric Roth the screenplay for the 2005 film "Munich", and he wrote the screenplay for the 2012 film "Lincoln". Both movies were critically acclaimed, and he received Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay. For his work, he received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013.
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A Stoop on Orchard Street A Stoop on Orchard Street is a musical by Jay Kholos. The story, inspired by a visit to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, is a nostalgic look at the year 1910. The musical premiered Off-Broadway in 2003, where it enjoyed a long run. It has since been revived several times.
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Academy Award for Best Original Musical The Academy Award for Best Original Musical (formerly known as "Scoring of a Musical Picture", "Best Original Song Score and Adaptation Score" and "Best Original Song Score") is a category still in the Academy rulebooks, but cannot be awarded unless "the field of eligible submissions is determined to be of sufficient quantity and quality to justify award competition."
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Harry Warren Harry Warren (born Salvatore Antonio Guaragna, December 24, 1893 – September 22, 1981) was an American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing "Lullaby of Broadway", "You'll Never Know" and "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe". He wrote the music for the first blockbuster film musical, "42nd Street", choreographed by Busby Berkeley, with whom he would collaborate on many musical films.
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Lynn Ahrens Lynn Ahrens (born October 1, 1948) is an American writer and lyricist for the musical theatre, television and film. She has collaborated with Stephen Flaherty for many years. She won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for the Broadway musical "Ragtime". Together with Flaherty, they have written many musicals, including "Lucky Stiff", "Once on This Island", "My Favorite Year", "Ragtime", "Seussical", "A Man of No Importance", "Dessa Rose", "The Glorious Ones", and most recently seen on Broadway, "Rocky the Musical".
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Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Musical Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Musical
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Harold Prince Harold Smith Prince (born January 30, 1928) is an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the 20th century. He has garnered twenty-one Tony Awards, more than any other individual, including eight for directing, eight for producing the year's Best Musical, two as Best Producer of a Musical, and three special awards.
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43rd Tony Awards The 43rd Annual Tony Awards, which honor achievement in the Broadway theatre was held on June 4, 1989, at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre and broadcast by CBS television. The hostess was Angela Lansbury. Angela Lansbury has hosted or co-hosted more Tony telecasts than any other individual, with five telecasts: 1968, 1971, 1987, 1988, and 1989.
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Morton Gottlieb Morton Edgar Gottlieb (May 2, 1921 – June 25, 2009) was an American producer of Broadway theatre whose play "Sleuth" won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1971, in addition to three of his other plays that were nominated for the same award.
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Bill Russell (lyricist) Bill Russell (born 1949) is an American librettist and lyricist. Among his stage musicals are "Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens" and "Side Show", which was nominated for the Tony Award as Best Musical.
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Kristin Chenoweth: My Love Letter to Broadway Kristin Chenoweth: My Love Letter to Broadway is a 2016 musical revue / concert, written for and starring American singer and actress Kristin Chenoweth. The show was directed by Richard Jay-Alexander, with musical direction by Mary Mitchell Campbell, and produced by James L. Nederlander. The show was a limited engagement of 12 performances at Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre from November 2 through 13, 2016.
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Special Tony Award The Special Tony Award category includes the Lifetime Achievement Award and Special Tony Award. These are non-competitive honorary awards, and the titles have changed over the years. The Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre is to "honor an individual for the body of his or her work." (The Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event was a competitive award, given from 2001 to 2009.) Another non-competitive Tony award is the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre, to "recognize the achievements of individuals and organizations that do not fit into any of the competitive categories."
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The Araca Group The Araca Group is a Tony Award-winning live entertainment merchandise and production company founded in 1997 by partners Matthew Rego, Michael Rego, and Hank Unger. First achieving notoriety as producers of the musical "Urinetown", the company has gradually become more involved in merchandising following the success of "Wicked".
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Tony Award for Best Stage Technician The Tony Award for Best Stage Technician was awarded to acknowledge the contributions of stage technicians in both musicals and plays. The award was first given in 1948 and last presented in 1963.
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Susan Stroman Susan P. Stroman (born October 17, 1954) is an American theatre director, choreographer and performer. She is a five-time Tony Award winner, four for Best Choreography and one as Best Director of a Musical for "The Producers".
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Obie Award The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards originally given by "The Village Voice" newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City. In September 2014, the Awards were jointly presented and administered with the American Theatre Wing. As the Tony Awards cover Broadway productions, the Obie Awards cover Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions.
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Tony Anthony (actor) Tony Anthony (born Roger Pettito; October 16, 1937) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director best known for his starring roles in Spaghetti Westerns, most of which were produced with the aid of his friends and associates Allen Klein and Saul Swimmer. These films consist of "The Stranger" series - "A Stranger in Town" (1967), "The Stranger Returns" (1967), "The Silent Stranger" (1968) and "Get Mean" (1975) - and the "Zatoichi"-inspired "Blindman" (1971). Anthony also wrote, produced and starred in "Comin' at Ya!" (1981) and "Treasure of the Four Crowns" (1983), the first film being largely credited with beginning the 1980s revival of 3D films in Hollywood.
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Showtune (musical) Showtune is a musical revue celebrating the words and music of Broadway composer and lyricist Jerry Herman. Its title was inspired by Herman's autobiography of the same name. The revue's original title was "Tune the Grand Up". After its 1985 San Francisco premiere and several regional productions through the 1990s, the piece played in the West End in 1998 under the title "The Best of Times", and Off-Broadway in 2003, titled "Showtune".