Thomas Meehan

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…Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron
• 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…Musical From the Inside Out, The - Stephen Citron
• 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.B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia
• 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…B007L4OWCU EBOK - Peter Filichia
• Book: Mark O’Donnell & Thomas Meehan, based upon the New Line Cinema film written & directed by John WatersBroadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell
• Book: Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan, based on the story & screenplay by Gene Wilder & Mel BrooksBroadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell

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