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Lynn Ahrens (born October 1, 1948) is an American writer and lyricist for the musical theatre, television and film. She has collaborated with Stephen Flaherty for many years. She won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for the Broadway musical ''Ragtime''. Together with Flaherty, they have written many musicals, including ''Lucky Stiff'', ''Once on This Island'', ''My Favorite Year'', ''Ragtime'', ''Seussical'', ''A Man of No Importance'', ''Dessa Rose'', ''The Glorious Ones'', and most recently seen on Broadway, ''Rocky the Musical''. She was also nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for the animated Twentieth Century Fox film ''Anastasia''. She wrote the teleplay of her 1994 musical adaption of ''A Christmas Carol'', with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Ahrens. She is a mainstay writer and performer for ABC-TV's ''Schoolhouse Rock''. Ahrens also wrote lyrics for the title song for ''After the Storm'', the documentary film about young Hurricane Katrina survivors putting on ''Once On This Island''. ==Biography== Ahrens was born in New York City, graduated from Neptune High School on the Jersey shore, and graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Journalism and English. She is Jewish.〔Stephen Holden, ("Striving for What's Hummable" ), ''New York Times'', May 24, 1990. ("'Our lives have been very different,' Ms. Ahrens said the other day at the offices of Playwrights Horizons. '(is ) from Pittsburgh, and I'm from New Jersey. He's Catholic, and I'm Jewish. And I'm older than he is. But our sensibilities are very similar.'") 〕 She then began a career in advertising as a copywriter for McCaffrey and McCall. It was her first job out of college. She was living with her ex-husband in Flushing, sleeping on the floor of his sister's apartment. While working as a secretary/copywriter, she would bring her guitar to play and write songs during lunch. George Newall was passing by and asked her casually to write a song for ''Schoolhouse Rock!''. She wrote "The Preamble", and it went on the air with Ahrens singing it.〔Nobleman, Marc Tyler, ("'Schoolhouse Rock' interview: songwriter/singer Lynn Ahrens" ), ''Noblemania''〕 After that she began regularly writing songs for the show.〔(Profile )''Variety'', accessed January 27, 2010〕 She subsequently worked as a freelance composer and singer of commercial music, and wrote and produced a number of songs for children's television, particularly ''Captain Kangaroo''. She began writing for the musical theater in 1982. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lynn Ahrens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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