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Charles Leipart

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Education
  
Northwestern University

Books
  
The Undefeated Rhumba Champ: A Play in One Act, Deep Sleepers: A Play

Charles Leipart is an award-winning American musical theatre bookwriter-lyricist and playwright. He was born in Chicago and graduated from Northwestern University. He lives in New York City.

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Works (selection)

MUSICALS

  • Good Girls Only, the Rehearsal Club Musical, music by Jamey Grisham; additional music by John Kroner and Eric Scott Reed
  • Pickwick's Haunted Christmas, the new Charles Dickens musical, music by Eric Schorr
  • Me and Miss Monroe, an original musical, music by William Goldstein
  • Enchanted April, a new musical romance adapted from Elizabeth von Arnim's novel The Enchanted April, music by Richard B. Evans
  • Frog Kiss, a musical adapted from The Frog Prince by Stephen Mitchell, music by Eric Schorr
  • The Showgirl of 52nd Street, an original musical, music by John Kroner
  • The Price of Everything, an original musical adapted from Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of The Leisure Class, music by Richard B. Evans
  • espresso trasho, an original musical, music by Eric Schorr
  • The Doctor's Wife, a musical adapted from Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, music by Eric Schorr

    • PLAYS

  • A Kind of Marriage, a play about E. M. Forster
  • Swimming at the Ritz, a stage play about Pamela Churchill Harriman
  • Underfoot in Show Business, a stage play adapted from the comic memoir by Helene Hanff.
  • Mr. & Mrs. "A", a stage play
  • Deep Sleepers, a comedy, published by Dramatists' Play Service
  • The Undefeated Rhumba Champ, a one-act comedy, published by Dramatists Play Service

    • Awards

  • LGBT History Playwriting Initiative Award 2015, Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation, A Kind of Marriage Honorable Mention
  • Excellence in Writing: Lyrics, New York Musical Theatre Festival, 2010, Frog Kiss
  • Most Promising Musical, New York Musical Theatre Festival, 2010, Frog Kiss Honorable Mention
  • Excellence in Writing: Book, New York Musical Theatre Festival, 2010, Frog Kiss Honorable Mention
  • Finalist, The Fred Ebb Award, 2005, 2006 & 2008
  • Global Search for New Musicals, Cardiff, Wales, 2005, Frog Kiss
  • Edward Kleban Foundation Award—Outstanding Librettist, 2001, The Showgirl of 52nd Street

    • References

    Charles Leipart Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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