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Jeanine Tesori |
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JEANINE TESORI wrote the score for Thoroughly Modern Millie, which won 2002 Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Musical and earned her Tony and Grammy nominations. She also scored Nicholas Hytner’s production of Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center Theater, for which she received a 1999 Drama Desk Award and her first Tony nomination. Ms. Tesori won wide acclaim for Violet, produced at Playwrights Horizons. Violet was named Best Musical by the NY Drama Critics Circle and the Lucille Lortel Awards, and Ms. Tesori received an Obie Award for her music. For film, Ms. Tesori has written songs for Mulan II and Lilo and Stitch II, both due out from Disney next year. She has collaborated with lyricists Dick Scanlan, Brian Crawley, and Alexa Junge. Ms. Tesori is married to music director and composer Michael Rafter, and they are the proud parents of Siena Rafter.
Bio as of May, 2004.
Working in the Theatre (video)
Production: Caroline, or Change - April, 2004
Production: Thoroughly Modern Millie - April, 2002
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
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