Shows · Lisa Lambert
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.
Also credited on4 works
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Color Purple
The Pajama Game
Jersey Boys
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
- Bob Martin, Don McKellar and Lisa Lambert provided invaluable information on the development of The Drowsy Chaperone .Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey
- [229] Lisa Lambert , Greg Morrison , “Message from a Nightingale ”, from The Drowsy Chaperone .Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey
- 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…Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey
- 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-…Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey
- 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.”Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey
- [308] Sandy Thorburn , “Who is the Drowsy Chaperone’s Muse?”, Thousand Islands Theatre Programme , 2009 (courtesy of Lisa Lambert and Sandy Thorburn )Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey
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