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Don McKellar

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Book Writer b. 1963

Don McKellar (born August 17, 1963) is a Canadian actor, writer, playwright, and filmmaker. He was part of a loosely-affiliated group of filmmakers to emerge from Toronto known as the Toronto New Wave. He is known for directing and writing the film Last Night, which won the Prix de la Jeunesse at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, as well as his screenplays for films such as Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, The Red Violin, Blindness, and No Other Choice. McKellar frequently acts in his own projects, and has also appeared in Atom Egoyan's Exotica and David Cronenberg's eXistenZ and Crimes of the Future. He is also known for being a fixture on Canadian television, with series including Tw…

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The Drowsy Chaperone

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  • Bob Martin, Don McKellar and Lisa Lambert provided invaluable information on the development of The Drowsy Chaperone .ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • In 2006 The Drowsy Chaperone , with book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar , and music and lyrics by Greg Morrison and Lisa Lambert , opened at the Marquis Theatre on Broadway, where it broke box office records after winning five Tony Awards (including best book and best score.) The musical, in which a lonely divorcee sits in his apartment l…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • Bob Martin attended Lawrence Park Collegiate (folk singer Neil Young’s alma mater) with two of his future collaborators, Lisa Lambert and Don McKellar . Even then they dreamed up mock musicals. The late Marian Grudeff (1927-2006), a veteran of Spring Thaw who co-wrote the score for the Broadway musical Baker Street with Ray Jessell (1929-…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • Co-author Bob Martin is a former artistic director of Second City , and co-creator of the superb TV mini-series Slings and Arrows , and Don McKellar is an actor, writer and film maker of some note in Canada. Through the character of the “Man In Chair”, it possesses that detached irony that has long been a trademark of Canadian humour. Alt…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • Drowsy Chaperone, The Broadway Cast recording Music by Greg Morrison Lyrics by Lisa Lanbert, Book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar Ghostlight CD 7915584411-2ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • For if Canadian writer Bob Martin hadn’t popped the question to Janet Van De Graaff in 1998, his friends Don McKellar, Lisa Lambert, and Greg Morrison wouldn’t have given him a stag party. They would have had no motivation to write a few risqué songs and sketches that spoofed the engaged couple.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt

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