I thought I had left it behind, but you can take the Musical Theatre Queen out of The Post Apocalyptic Bohemain. but it just leaves you with a puddle of Musical Theatre Queen to mop up.
Stephen Flaherty is best known as the Tony Award winning composer of the Broadway musical Ragtime. His other music for Broadway includes the scores for: the terrific Once On This Island, Seussical, My Favorite Year, Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life, the lovely A Man of No Importance, Dessa Rose, Lucky Stiff & Loving Repeating: A musical of Gertrude Stein, adapted from the works of Ms. Stein by Frank Galati.
Flaherty composed the score for the animated filmAnastasia, receiving 2 Academy Award nominations & 2 Golden Golden Globe nominations.
His concert work includes With Voices Raised (Boston Pops commission, Carnegie Hall performance), Ragtime Symphonic Suite (Hollywood Bowl Orchestra), as well as commisions from Carnegie Hall and The Guggenheim Museum in NYC.
As a performer, he made his Carnegie Hall in April 2007 with the NY Pops Orchestra, debuting a new song with the singer Anika Noni Rose. His numerous awards as a composer include the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Los Angeles Critics Circle, Chicago's Joseph Jefferson & Britain's Olivier Award. He has been nominated for a Grammy 3 times. He has been collaborating with lyricist/librettist Lynn Ahrens for over 2 decades. Their latest musical, The Glorious Ones, will receive its New York premiere this fall at Lincoln Center Theatre.
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