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Margo Lion is a producer for plays and musicals both on Broadway and off-Broadway. She is known for her role in producing the stage and screen hit ''Hairspray''. Combined, the works Lion produced have won 20 Tony Awards and a Pulitzer Prize. ==Biography== Margo Lion is from Baltimore, Maryland. She started her producing career with Lyn Austin at The Music-Theater Group/Lenox Arts Center. Her first commercial production was ''How I Got That Story'' in 1982. Later off-Broadway productions included the 1987 version of Martha Clarke's ''The Garden of Earthly Delights'', ''Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune'' and ''The Cryptogram''. Her first Broadway production was ''I Hate Hamlet'' in 1991. In 1987 Lion commissioned George Wolfe, Susan Birkenhead and Luther Henderson to write a show about Jelly Roll Morton. That musical became the 1992 Broadway show, ''Jelly's Last Jam'', starring Gregory Hines. In 1993-94 Lion produced ''Angels in America: Millennium Approaches'' and ''Perestroika'' followed by the 1995 production of ''Seven Guitars''. ''Angels in America: Millennium Approaches'' won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In 1997, Lion produced ''Triumph of Love'', based on a 1732 comedy by Pierre de Marivaux. Shortly after its run, while watching John Waters' 1988 film, ''Hairspray'' she had the idea to adapt the film into a musical. She recruited Marc Shaiman, a Hollywood film composer, for the musical's score. Four years later, in August 2002, the musical ''Hairspray'' premiered on Broadway and became an immediate commercial and critical hit. Following ''Hairspray'', Lion produced the Broadway productions ''Caroline, or Change'' (2004), ''The Wedding Singer'' (2006), and ''Radio Golf'' (2007) as well as ''Harlem Song'' at The Apollo. Lion also garnered a Tony Award for ''Elaine Stritch at Liberty''.〔 She is currently the producer of the musical adaptation of ''Catch Me If You Can'' which played at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre in July 2009,〔Berson, Misha.('Hairspray' collaborators back in town with "Catch Me If You Can" ) seattletimes.nwsource.com, July 17, 2009〕 as well as musical adaptations of Mira Nair's ''Monsoon Wedding'', and ''Like Water for Chocolate''. Lion is an adjunct professor at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University. She also served as Co-Chair to President Barack Obama's Arts Policy Committee during the 2008 Presidential Election and was appointed in 2009 as Co-Chair of President's Committee on the Humanities and the Arts.〔BWW News Desk.( "Obama Appointments George Stevens Jr., Margo Lion, Mary Schmidt Campbell to Arts and Humanities Committee" ), dc.broadwayworld.com, September 17, 2009〕 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「Margo Lion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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