“I’ve always been partial to ‘Snapshots,’ David Stern’s imaginative repurposing of songs of mine from other projects into an original, funny, and touching small musical,” Schwartz said. The production has music and lyrics by Schwartz, a book by Stern, and was conceived by Michael Scheman and Stern, with additional music and lyrics by David Crane (“Friends”), Seth Friedman (“Upstairs at O’Neals”), Marta Kauffman (“Grace and Frankie”), Alan Menken (“Beauty and The Beast”) and Charles Strouse (“Annie”), and arrangements and orchestrations by Steve Orich. The show’s cast includes John Cardoza (“Jagged Little Pill”), Mariand Torres (“Hadestown”), Michael McCorry Rose (“Wicked”), Monica Ramirez (“Working”), Ryan Bailer (“Evita”) and Olivia Hernandez (“Austen’s Pride”). Levine, alongside ACT of CT’s Music Supervisor Bryan Perri. Schwartz collaborated with ACT of CT’s Artistic Director and the director of the film Daniel C. “Stephen Schwartz’s Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook” was produced for streaming by ACT (A Contemporary Theater) of CT earlier this year. “Snapshots” is an original musical which incorporates over two dozen of Schwartz’s songs from those shows, as well as from “The Baker’s Wife,” “Rags,” “Working,” “Children of Eden” and “Enchanted.” Some of the songs include “Popular” from “Wicked,” “Meadowlark” from “The Baker’s Wife” and “Corner of The Sky” from “Pippin.” Schwartz looms large over the musical theater scene, having composed the likes of “Wicked,” “Pippin,” and “Godspell.” The show is from Broadway and film composer, Stephen Schwartz, and writer David Stern. “Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook” starting this month. Under the auspices of the ASCAP Foundation, he runs musical theatre workshops in New York and Los Angeles, and serves on the ASCAP board he is also a member of the Council of the Dramatists' Guild.BroadwayHD, a streaming service based around live theater, will exclusively show Schwartz's most recent musical, WICKED, opened in the fall of 2003 and is currently running on Broadway. Recently, he released two CDs on which he sings new songs, entitled RELUCTANT PILGRIM and UNCHARTED TERRITORY. Schwartz provided music and lyrics for the original television musical, GEPPETTO, seen on The Wonderful World of Disney. He also provided songs for DreamWorks' first animated feature, THE PRINCE OF EGYPT, for which he won another Academy Award for the song "When You Believe". He then began working in film, collaborating with composer Alan Menken on the scores for the Disney animated features POCAHONTAS, for which he received two Academy Awards and another Grammy, and THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. He then wrote music for three of the songs in the Off-Broadway revue, PERSONALS, lyrics to Charles Strouse's music for RAGS, and music and lyrics for CHILDREN OF EDEN. Next came songs for a one-act musical for children, CAPTAIN LOUIE, and a children's book, THE PERFECT PEACH. He also co-directed the television production, which was presented as part of the PBS "American Playhouse" series. He next wrote the music and lyrics for THE BAKER'S WIFE, followed by a musical version of Studs Terkel's WORKING, to which he contributed four songs, and which he also adapted and directed, winning the Drama Desk Award as best director. At one point, GODSPELL, PIPPIN, and THE MAGIC SHOW were all running on Broadway simultaneously. The following year, he wrote the music and lyrics for PIPPIN and two years later, THE MAGIC SHOW. This was followed by the English texts, in collaboration with Leonard Bernstein, for Bernstein's MASS, which opened the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. In 1971, he wrote the music and new lyrics for GODSPELL, for which he won several awards including two Grammys.
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His first major credit was the title song for the play BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE the song was eventually used in the movie version as well. Upon coming back to live in New York City, he went to work as a producer for RCA Records, but shortly thereafter began to work in the Broadway theatre. He studied piano and composition at the Juilliard School of Music while in high school and graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 1968 with a B.F.A. Stephen Schwartz was born in New York City on March 6, 1948.
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