From Annie to Hairspray: Look Back at Thomas Meehan’s Contributions to Broadway | Playbill

Photo Features From Annie to Hairspray: Look Back at Thomas Meehan’s Contributions to Broadway The three-time Tony Award winner died at the age of 88.
Reid Shelton and Andrea McArdle in the original Broadway production of Annie. Martha Swope / The New York Public Library

Thomas Meehan, the three-time Tony Award winner who authored the book for Broadway hits Annie, The Producers, and Hairspray, has died at 88.

Flip through the photos of his other Broadway contributions below:

From Annie to Hairspray: Look Back at Thomas Meehan’s Contributions to Broadway

He is the only creative to have written the books for three shows that ran more than 2,000 performances on Broadway: Annie, which he did by himself (2,377 performances); The Producers in 2001, which he wrote with Mel Brooks (2,502 performances); and Hairspray in 2002, which he wrote with the late Mark O’Donnell (2,642 performances). He earned Tonys for all three shows.

Meehan received a fourth Tony nomination in 2008 for penning the book to Cry-Baby (like Hairspray, a stage adaptation of a John Waters film) alongside O'Donnell; his myriad additional Broadway credits include Rocky, Elf, Young Frankenstein (his second Brooks collaboration), and Chaplin.

READ: Thomas Meehan, Tony-Winning Writer of Annie, Dies at 88

 
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