The Secret Garden lyrics are by a playwright who recieved what award in 1983?
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The Secret Garden (musical) The Secret Garden is a musical based on the 1911 novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The musical's script and lyrics are by Marsha Norman, with music by Lucy Simon. It premiered on Broadway in 1991 and ran for 709 performances.
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Marsha Norman Marsha Norman (born September 21, 1947) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist. She received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play "'night, Mother". She wrote the book and lyrics for such Broadway musicals as "The Secret Garden", for which she won a Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, and "The Red Shoes", as well as the libretto for the musical "The Color Purple" and the book for the musical "The Bridges of Madison County". She is co-chair of the playwriting department at The Juilliard School.
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Robert Gittings Robert William Victor Gittings CBE (1 February 1911 – 18 February 1992), was an English writer, biographer, BBC Radio producer, playwright and poet. In 1978, he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for "The Older Hardy".
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Greg Day (playwright) Greg Day (born 1957) is a playwright who created several radio and stage plays between 1983 and 2001. His 1983 play "The Arrangement" was described as "the most disturbing bedsitcom since Polanski's "The Tenant"" by "Time Out" magazine.
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The Homecoming The Homecoming is a two-act play written in 1964 by Nobel laureate Harold Pinter and it was first published in 1965. Its premières in London (1965) and New York (1967) were both directed by Sir Peter Hall and starred Pinter's first wife, Vivien Merchant, as Ruth. The original Broadway production won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Play. Its 40th-anniversary Broadway production at the Cort Theatre was nominated for a 2008 Tony Award for "Best Revival of a Play".
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Carl Hancock Rux Carl Hancock Rux is an American poet, playwright, novelist, essayist, actor, director, singer/ songwriter. He is the author of several books including the Village Voice Literary Prize winning, "Pagan Operetta" , the novel "Asphalt" (novel) and the OBIE award-winning play "Talk". Rux is also a singer/songwriter with four CDs to his credit, as well as a frequent collaborator in the fields of dance, theater, film, and contemporary art . Notable collaborators include Nona Hendryx, Toshi Reagon, Bill T. Jones, Ronald K. Brown, Nick Cave, Anne Bogart, Robert Wilson, Kenny Leon, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Jonathan Demme, Stanley Nelson Jr., Carrie Mae Weems, Glenn Ligon and others. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Doris Duke Awards for New Works, the Doris Duke Charitable Fund, the New York Foundation for the Arts Prize, the Bessie Awards and the Alpert Award in the Arts.His archives are housed at the Billy Rose Theater Division of the New York Public Library, the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution as well as the Film and Video/Theater and Dance Library of the California Institute of the Arts.
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The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life is a novel by the British playwright, novelist and Oscar nominated screenwriter William Nicholson.
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Ed Bullins Ed Bullins (born July 2, 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an African-American playwright. He was also the Minister of Culture for the Black Panthers. In addition, he has won numerous awards, including the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and several Obie Awards. He is one of the best known playwrights to come from the Black Arts Movement.
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Florida Scott-Maxwell Florida Pier Scott-Maxwell (14 September 1883 - 6 March 1979) was a playwright, author and psychologist.
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Goh Poh Seng Goh Poh Seng (; July 1936 – 10 January 2010), Singaporean dramatist, novelist, doctor and poet, was born in Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya in 1936. He was educated at Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur, received his medical degree from University College Dublin, and practised medicine in Singapore for twenty-five years. His writing blossomed in Ireland, where he met writers Patrick Kavanagh and Brendan Behan, published his poetry in the university magazine, and took a year off school to write. In his time living in Singapore, Dr. Goh held many honorary positions including the Chairman of the National Theatre Trust Board between 1967 and 1972, and Vice-Chairman of the Arts Council from 1967 to 1973. He was committed to the development of Art and cultural policies of post-independent Singapore, as well as the development of cultural institutions such as the Singapore National Symphony, the Chinese Orchestra and the Singapore Dance Company. Goh also opened Singapore's first theatre disco lounge, Rainbow Lounge at Ming Arcade, and Bistro Toulouse-Lautrec at Tanglin Shopping Centre for live jazz and poetry readings, organised Singapore's first David Bowie concert in 1983, and envisioned a livelier Singapore River in the 1970s, a proposal that was only taken seriously decades later.
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Ronald Harwood Sir Ronald Harwood, CBE, FRSL (born Ronald Horwitz; 9 November 1934) is an author, playwright and screenwriter. He is most noted for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for "The Dresser" (for which he was nominated for an Oscar) and "The Pianist", for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (2007).
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Lawrence Kasha Lawrence Kasha (December 3, 1933 – September 29, 1990) was a Tony Award-winning American theatre producer and director, playwright, and stage manager.
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Donald Margulies Donald Margulies (born September 2, 1954) is an American playwright and a professor of English and Theater Studies at Yale University. In 2000, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play "Dinner with Friends".
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1982 Laurence Olivier Awards The 1982 Society of West End Theatre Awards were held in 1982 in London celebrating excellence in West End theatre by the Society of West End Theatre. The awards would not become the Laurence Olivier Awards, as they are known today, until the 1984 ceremony.
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Alden Nowlan Alden Albert Nowlan (January 25, 1933 – June 27, 1983) was a critically acclaimed Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright.
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Shallows Shallows (1984) is a novel by multi-award-winning Australian author Tim Winton. It won the 1984 Miles Franklin Award It was also the 1985 Joint Winner Western Australian Premier's Book Award - Fiction
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Ray Cooney Raymond George Alfred Cooney, OBE (born 30 May 1932) is an English playwright and actor. His biggest success, "Run for Your Wife" (1983) ran for nine years in London's West End and is its longest-running comedy. He has had 17 of his plays performed there.
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Gillian Plowman Gillian Plowman is an award-winning English playwright. She is the author of more than 20 plays. She won the 1988 Verity Bargate Award for her play "Me and My Friend". Originally staged at the Soho Poly, it was later revived at the Chichester Festival and at the Orange Tree Theatre. In 2008, the Oval House Theatre staged her play "Yours Abundantly, From Zimbabwe".
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Wole Soyinka Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Babatunde Soyinka (Yoruba: "Akinwándé Oluwo̩lé Babátúndé S̩óyinká", ] ; born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian playwright and poet. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to be honoured in that category.
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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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The Woman in Black (play) The Woman in Black is a 1987 stage play, adapted by Stephen Mallatratt. The play is based on the book of the same name, which was published in 1983 by English author Susan Hill. The play is currently being produced by PW Productions, led by Peter Wilson. It is notable for only having two actors perform the whole play. It was first performed at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, in 1987. The production opened in London's West End in 1989 and is still being performed there, becoming the second longest-running non-musical play in West End history, after "The Mousetrap".
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Laurence Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design is an annual award presented by The Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial British theatre. The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976, and, renamed in 1984 in honour of English actor Lord Olivier.