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Annie on Tour closed on March 14, 2010
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THOMAS MEEHAN
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won both Tony and Drama Desk awards for the book of Annie, his first Broadway show, and he has since, among other musicals, written the books for I Remember Mama, Ain’t Broadway Grand, Annie 2, Annie Warbucks and Cry-Baby. He is a longtime contributor of humor to The New Yorker, an Emmy Award-winning writer of a television comedy, and a collaborator on a number of screenplays, including Mel Brooks’ Space Balls and To Be or Not ToBe. In 1998, Mel Brooks asked him to co-write the libretto of a Broadway musical adaptation of Brooks’ classic 1968 film, “The Producers.” For his libretto with Brooks of The Producers, he won his second Tony and Drama Desk awards. Shortly thereafter, he began work on the book of Hairspray, written in collaboration with Mark O’Donnell. Hairspray was yet another huge hit, winning eight Tonys, including Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical, as Mr. Meehan garnered his third doubleheader of Tony and Drama Desk awards. Later, in 2004, he was represented on Broadway as the co-writer (with Meera Syall) of the Americanized version of the hit London musical Bombay Dreams, and he then had the privilege of having three of his musicals running at once on Broadway. His most recent Broadway musical was Young Frankenstein, for which he co-wrote the libretto with Mel Brooks and which is currently on a two-year national tour. Mr. Meehan is a member of the Council of the Dramatists Guild.
