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ANDREW LIPPA wrote the book, music and lyrics for THE WILD PARTY, which was given its world premiere in 2000 at the Manhattan Theater Club in New York City. The Wild Party won the Outer Critics Circle Award for best Off-Broadway musical of the season and Mr. Lippa won the 2000 Drama Desk Award for best music. The show was nominated for 13 Drama Desk Awards including best new musical. Last summer saw the premiere of Mr. Lippa's A LITTLE PRINCESS (book and lyrics by Brian Crawley) at Theatreworks in Palo Alto, CA. In 1999 Mr. Lippa contributed three new songs to the Broadway version of YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN (including MY NEW PHILOSOPHY for Tony-Award Winner Kristin Chenoweth) and created all new arrangements. He wrote the music and co-wrote the book (with Tom Greenwald) for john & jen, which played in New York City in 1995 at The Lamb's Theater. Mr. Lippa's recordings include THE WILD PARTY (RCA Victor) which he also produced, YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN (RCA Victor) which earned him a Grammy Award nomination for his producing efforts, and john & jen (Fynsworth Alley) which he associate produced. In addition, he produced the original cast recording of BAT BOY for RCA Victor and his singing voice can be heard on THE SONDHEIM ALBUM on Fynsworth Alley. Vocal selections from The Wild Party and john & jen are published by Hal Leonard. Awards include a Grammy nomination, the Gilman/Gonzalez-Falla Theater Foundation Award, ASCAP's Richard Rodgers/New Horizons Award, The Drama Desk, The Outer Critics Circle and second place for the Alice B. Deucey Award for all-around outstanding fifth-grader (lost to Cynthia Fink). Memberships include ASCAP, The Dramatist Guild, Actor's Equity, and the AF of M. Currently Mr. Lippa is writing the scores (music and lyrics) for BETTY BOOP with playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, the movie-musical ASPHALT BEACH for writer/director Peter Spears, and is finishing work on JERRY CHRISTMAS with playwright Daniel Goldfarb. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Mr. Lippa is the resident artist at the Ars Nova Theater in New York City.
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