We’ve had a lot of success with that name.” It was the first television show I ever did, and Tom was a collaborator on that. I read his pieces over the course of the years, and I actually optioned a piece of his called ‘Annie, The Women in the Life of a Man’ as a 1970 TV project for Anne Bancroft. “He was a frequent contributor, and I was a subscriber. “I knew him from his work at The New Yorker,” Charnin told Playbill. It was his writing there that caught Charnin's attention, leading to his theatrical debut. Read: A DRINK WITH ANNIE CREATORS MARTIN CHARNIN, THOMAS MEEHAN, AND CHARLES STROUSEīorn August 14, 1929, Meehan attended Hamilton College before beginning his career as a writer with The New Yorker's “Talk of the Town” section. He is the only creative to have written the books for three shows that ran more than 2,000 performances on Broadway: the aforementioned Annie (2,377 performances), The Producers in 2001 alongside Mel Brooks (2,502 performances), and Hairspray in 2002, which he wrote with the late Mark O’Donnell (2,642 performances). The smash hit Annie, which ran for 2,377 performances, earned Meehan his first of three Tony Awards. Meehan was 47 when he made his Broadway debut, collaborating with Charnin and composer Charles Strouse on a stage musical adaptation of Harold Gray’s comic strip Little Orphan Annie.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |