This week, songwriting duo Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty celebrated a Broadway milestone. The twosome, currently represented on Broadway by Anastasia and Once On This Island, celebrated the unveiling of their very own Sardi's portraits! Check out photos from the event below!
Longtime collaborators Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty are recipients of the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement, and were inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2015. For Broadway's Ragtime, they won Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards and received two Grammy nominations. They were also nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globes for the score of Twentieth Century Fox's animated feature Anastasia.
Selected theater credits include Once On This Island; Seussical; Rocky; Little Dancer; Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life; Lucky Stiff; the Broadway revival of Ragtime; and Lincoln Center Theater's Dessa Rose, A Man of No Importance, My Favorite Year and The Glorious Ones.
Individually, Ms. Ahrens is an Emmy Award winner, a mainstay writer for Schoolhouse Rock, and wrote book and lyrics for Madison Square Garden's A Christmas Carol. Mr. Flaherty wrote the score for the new dance musical In Your Arms at The Old Globe, and incidental musical for Neil Simon's Broadway play Proposals. They are council members of the Dramatists Guild of America, and co- founded the Dramatists Guild Fellows Program for emerging writers. For more, visit www.ahrensandflaherty.com.
Photo Credit: Walter McBride
Max Klimavicius with Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty
Max Klimavicius with Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty
Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty
Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty
Max Klimavicius with Lynn Ahrens
Max Klimavicius & Stephen Flaherty
Max Klimavicius & Stephen Flaherty
Max Klimavicius & Stephen Flaherty
Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens
Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens with cast members from ‘Once on this Island’ and Anastasia’
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