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Lisa Lambert

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ComposerLyricist b. 1962

Lisa Lambert (born December 1962 in Washington, D.C.) is a Canadian actress, comedy writer, and Tony Award-winning composer, best known for co-writing the music and lyrics to The Drowsy Chaperone.

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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
  • [229] Lisa Lambert , Greg Morrison , “Message from a Nightingale ”, from 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
  • Lisa Lambert told me, “For me, the apartment is my bedroom in the North Toronto house I lived in growing up in Toronto – my crappy record player and Broadway cast recordings I stole from my mother’s collection.”ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
  • [308] Sandy Thorburn , “Who is the Drowsy Chaperone’s Muse?”, Thousand Islands Theatre Programme , 2009 (courtesy of Lisa Lambert and Sandy Thorburn )ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt

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