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James Lapine

Shows · James Lapine

Book WriterDirector b. 1949

Writer-director who forged a transformative partnership with Stephen Sondheim.

Also credited on12 works

Sunday in the Park with George
Into the Woods
Passion
Falsettos
A Little Night Music
Into the Woods (2002 Revival)
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Falsettos (2016 Revival)
Flying Over Sunset
Into the Woods (2022 Revival)
Amour
Sunday in the Park with George

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In the literature8 passages

  • In December 2011, I got the green light to begin our search for the next Sandy. James Lapine wanted dogs that hadn’t appeared on stage before, and Arielle wanted to publicize our efforts to find them. Dorothy began the search on Petfinder.com, but we ran into an unexpected snag. Generally, we adopt our dogs in Connecticut, New York, or Ne…ebooks/Berloni, Bill/Broadway Tails_ Heartfelt Stories of Rescued Dogs Who Became Showbiz Superstars - Bill Berloni & Jim Hanrahan.txt
  • 25 Sunday in the Park with George won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Sondheim and James Lapine.ebooks/Bernstein, Leonard/Leonard Bernstein Letters, The - Leonard Bernstein.txt
  • After Sweeney Todd and Merrily We Roll Along , Sondheim joined forces with a new, younger creative partner, James Lapine (b. 1949). During the next ten years, Lapine became arguably as important and innovative a collaborator as Prince and his generational peers were in the previous decade and exerted an influence in Sondheim’s post-Prince…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
  • Nor was it possible to treat gay issues without acknowledging tragic possibilities. In 1980 William Finn and James Lapine's March of the Falsettos, which began with a quartet entitled "Four Jews in a Room Bitching" told the story of a bisexual who leaves his wife and child for another man but, amazingly, does so without creating any bitte…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
  • James Lapine had had some nice off-Broadway successes from writing and directing Table Settings in 1979 and Twelve Dreams in 1981. In between, he’d also staged March of the Falsettos to a good deal of acclaim.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
  • So why would Broadway star Bernadette Peters now take a supporting role in a musical? Because Sunday’ s authors Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, who’d written this new musical called Into the Woods, needed her.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt

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