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Thomas Edward Meehan (born August 14, 1929) is an American writer, best known for ''Annie'', ''The Producers'' and ''Hairspray''. ==Life and career== Meehan grew up in Suffern, New York, and graduated from Hamilton College.〔("Thomas Meehan bio" ) cityfile.com, accessed March 12, 2011. according to this biography, Meehan was born in 1929)〕 He moved to New York at age 24, and worked at ''The New Yorkers "Talk of the Town".〔Gurley, George and Larocca, Amy. ("Thomas Meehan, Writer – Horst of Fifth Avenue" ), ''The New York Observer'', November 14, 1999〕 He has received the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times: ''Annie'' (1977), his Broadway debut; ''The Producers'' (2001); and subsequently shared the 2003 award with Mark O'Donnell for ''Hairspray''.〔("Thomas Meehan" ). ''Who's Who'', playbill.com, Retrieved January 30, 2011.〕〔("Thomas Meehan Broadway Credits and Awards" ) playbillvault.com, accessed October 17, 2015〕 Additional credits include ''Ain't Broadway Grand''; ''Oh, Kay!''; ''Bombay Dreams'', a musical adaptation of ''I Remember Mama''; and ''Annie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge'', which was subsequently reworked and re-staged Off-Broadway as ''Annie Warbucks''.〔Rothstein, Mervyn. ("Troubled 'Annie 2' Closing Out of Town; Revisions Planned" ). ''The New York Times'', January 16, 1990〕 He also wrote the libretto to the opera ''1984''.〔〔 In addition, Meehan is a long-time contributor of humor to ''The New Yorker''; an Emmy Award-winning writer of television comedy; and a collaborator on a number of screenplays, including Mel Brooks' ''Spaceballs''; a remake of ''To Be or Not to Be''; the film adaptation of ''The Producers''; and ''One Magic Christmas''. Meehan wrote the book for the musical ''Young Frankenstein'', a 2007 musical stage adaptation of the 1974 film of the same name and ''Cry-Baby''. He co-wrote the book, with Bob Martin, for ''Elf the Musical''.〔〔〔Hetrick, Adam.("Beth Leavel, Mark Jacoby and George Wendt to Star in Elf – The Musical on Broadway" ) playbill.com, August 11, 2010〕 He co-wrote the book for the production of the musical ''Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin'' which ran at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2010〔Jones, Kenneth.("Limelight Musical, Starring Robert McClure and Ashley Brown, Opens at La Jolla Sept. 19" ) playbill.com, September 19, 2010〕 and premiered on Broadway in 2012. In 2011 he revised the book originally written by Peter Stone for the Off-Broadway musical ''Death Takes a Holiday'' with music and lyrics by Maury Yeston.〔Suskin, Steven. ("On the Record. Maury Yeston's 'Death Takes a Holiday' and the London Album of Styne, Comden and Green's 'Do Re Mi'" ), Playbill.com, October 20, 2011〕 In 2012, Meehan wrote the book from the original screenplay by Sylvester Stallone for the musical ''Rocky''. The show premiered in Hamburg in 2012, before transferring to Broadway in 2014.〔 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「Thomas Meehan (writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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