John Weidman
John Weidman (born September 25, 1946) is an American librettist. He is the son of Peggy Wright and librettist and novelist Jerome Weidman.[1]
Career
Weidman received a B.A. from Harvard University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.[2][3]
Theatre
He has written the books for a wide variety of stage musicals.
He collaborated on three stage musicals with Stephen Sondheim. Pacific Overtures premiered on Broadway in 1976, and was revived in 2004 at Studio 54. Assassins first opened Off-Broadway in December 1990 at Playwrights Horizons, [4] and later opened in the West End in October 1992 at the Donmar Warehouse.[5] The musical was revived on Broadway in 2004 in a Roundabout Theater Company production.[6] Road Show, after several title changes, opened Off-Broadway at the Public Theatre in 2008. The musical had productions at the Goodman Theatre and Kennedy Center in 2003 prior to the Off-Broadway production.
In 1999 he co-created the Tony Award-winning musical Contact with choreographer/director Susan Stroman.
He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Book for a Musical three times.
Other work
In the 1970s, Weidman wrote for National Lampoon. Since 1986, Weidman has been a writer for Sesame Street, for which he has won more than a dozen Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Children's Program.[7]
From 1999 to 2009 he was president of the Dramatists Guild of America.[2]
Stage work (libretti)
- Pacific Overtures - 1976 (Tony Award nominee, Best Book of a Musical)
- Anything Goes - 1987 (revised original book with Timothy Crouse; Tony Award, Best Musical Revival)
- Assassins - 1990 (revived on Broadway in 2004) (Drama Desk Award nominee, Outstanding Book of a Musical; Tony Award, Best Musical Revival)
- Big - 1996 (Tony Award nominee, Best Book of a Musical)
- Contact - 2000 (Tony Award nominee, Best Book of a Musical; Tony Award, Best Musical)
- Bounce - 2003
- Take Flight - 2007
- Road Show - 2008
- Happiness - 2009
References
- ^ Biography filmreference.com
- ^ a b brooklaw listing
- ^ "Storytelling with Sondheim" harvardmagazine.com, January-February 2011
- ^ [Assassins at the Internet Off-Broadway Database]
- ^ Michael H. Hutchins (2008). "Assassins". The Stephen Sondheim Reference Guide. Retrieved 2008-08-09.
- ^ Ernio Hernandez. "The Shots Heard Round the World: Musical Assassins Opens on Broadway". Playbill. Retrieved 2015-08-18.
- ^ Internet Movie Database listing
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