Also credited on9 works
Ain't Broadway Grand
Annie
Cry-Baby
Elf
Hairspray
I Remember Mama
Rocky
The Producers
Young Frankenstein
These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.
In the literature8 passages
- Beginning with one of the most obvious examples of this genre, Annie, follow Thomas Meehan’s libretto: Annie’s main desire in the comic strip and in the stage musical is to be reunited with her parents. She wears half a locket, a memento she has had since her pre-orphanage days. When the comically mean Miss Hannegan who runs the orphanage…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- 75 In adapting the comic strip Annie to the musical stage, Thomas Meehan, its librettist, recalls how he consciously tried to find a parallel to make the musical timely: ‘Harold Gray [who created the comic cuts] began the strip in 1924 so there was no period per se. We were free to write anything we wanted to. It was my idea to place it i…ebooks/Citron, Stephen/Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron.txt
- When he approached his friends—author and humorist Thomas Meehan and composer Charles (Bye Bye Birdie ) Strouse—they weren’t enthusiastic at all. Not until Charnin carefully explain that this would not be a spoof would they even begin to listen.ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- Brooks had Thomas Meehan co-write the book. The two came to know each other in 1973, when Meehan was one of five writers who penned a TV script for Brooks’s wife Anne Bancroft (Annie, the Women in the Life of a Man ). “Back then,” Meehan says, “Mel said he’d like to work with me sometime, but it wasn’t until after I wrote the book to Anni…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia.txt
- Book: Mark O’Donnell & Thomas Meehan, based upon the New Line Cinema film written & directed by John Watersebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
- Book: Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan, based on the story & screenplay by Gene Wilder & Mel Brooksebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
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