Susan Birkenhead

1978

Additional Broadway credits include Triumph of Love (Drama Desk nomination) and additional lyrics for the Cole Porter tunes in the 1998 revival of High Society. Birkenhead is one of several lyricists who contributed to Hats!, a musical inspired by the Red Hat Society, which is enjoying an open-ended run at Harrah"s New Orleans and is scheduled for a limited engagement at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago starting in April 2007. Radio Girl, a musical based on Kate Douglas Wiggin"s Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, premiered at the Goodspeed Musicals" Norma Terrace Theatre with music by Henry Krieger, lyrics by Birkenhead, and a book by Daniel Goldfarb. The show ran in 2010 from July 29 to August 22.

Susan Birkenhead

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Birkenhead made her Broadway debut as one of a team of songwriters contributing to Working (1978), for which she received her first Tony Award nomination. Her second was earned for Jelly"s Last Jam (1992), which won her the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics and a Grammy Award nomination. Birkenhead"s off-Broadway and regional theatre credits include What About Luv?, a musical adaptation of the Murray Schisgal play Luv, for which she won the Outer Critics Circle Award. Pieces of Eight with Jule Styne and Michael Stewart. Fanny Hackabout Jones with Erica Jong and Lucy Simon. The Night They Raided Minsky"s with Charles Strouse and Evan Hunter, the new musical Minsky"s based on the same. And, in collaboration with Henry Krieger, two potentially Broadway-bound projects based on hit films, The Flamingo Kid and Moonstruck (with a book by screenwriter John Patrick Shanley).

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1978
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Tony award; Drama Desk award; Outer Critics Circle award; Grammy award

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Tony award; Drama Desk award; Outer Critics Circle award; Grammy award