Schwartz Scene 42 - Stephen Schwartz wrote an update for this issue about his experiences with Working the musical and other new projects including a new movie, his opera, and My Fairy Tale American premiere. Schwartz comments on Snapshots, My Fairy Tale, and other projects. Stephen Schwartz shares his thoughts about the new Pippin production in London, his experience working on the Godspell revival on Broadway and more. News of Schwartz's trip to India for the new movie project Monkey's of Mumbai, concert news, and more. īACK ISSUES LIST: Back issues will give insights on Wicked's Development and the history of other Schwartz musicals, and Stephen Schwartz's perspective. The Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz, from Godspell to Wicked. The Schwartz Scene is from Carol de Giere, website publisher for and author of Defying Gravity: To read additional content for The Schwartz Scene back issues, including feature articles and interviews, see The Schwartz Scene archive Schwartz Scene Archive - Wicked Years 2 (2002 - 2003).Schwartz career archive - Wicked Years 1 (2000 - 2001).Stephen Schwartz's udpates have been compiled here: Our back issue content is available online in our archives. Weekly updates are provided on The Schwartz Scene Facebook page. We cover the Wicked movie, Disenchanted, and other musicals, as well as any performances and public interviews Stephen gives. It’s not the first time the musical - with its rich score by Charles Strouse (“Bye Bye Birdie,” “Annie,” “Applause”) and Schwartz’s deft lyrics - has been worked on since its closing.For the latest update on Stephen Schwartz's activities, please visit our companion site and look for the link to the current issue of "The Schwartz Scene" newsletter. In 2015 he received a special Tony Award for his work supporting young artists.īut today is about “Rags,” and the unique task of turning the musical, which ran for only four performances in 1986, into a viable show that suddenly reflects the political zeitgeist, with a future life. He’s received three Grammys and has been nominated six times for Tony Awards. He also created lyrics and/or music for such animated films as “Pocahontas,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” and “Enchanted,” earning him three Oscars. After all, he is one of the most successful Broadway composer-lyricists with “Pippin,” “Godspell” and “Wicked” among his credits. Then he was off to the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, where he was overseeing the progress of a “revisal” of the 1986 musical, “Rags.” Then he returned to the West Coast to zero in on the shooting script for the film version of “Wicked,” set for release in 2019.īut over coffee in the breakfast nook of the Ridgefield home he has for his visiting parents, children and grandchildren - his own manse is not far away - Schwartz, 69, had the focused cool of an old pro. (The show then will open in Denmark next year.) When we met for this interview, he had just gotten back to his Connecticut home from California, where a stage version of DreamWorks’ 1998 animated film, “The Prince of Egypt,” was preparing for its world premiere at TheaterWorks Silicon Valley in Palo Alto, staged by his son, veteran director Scott Schwartz. Stephen Schwartz looks pretty composed these days considering his bicoastal shuttles.
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