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KEN LUDWIG has had a number of hits on Broadway, in London and around the world, including Crazy For You, which won the Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Musical, Lend Me A Tenor, which won two Tonys and the Olivier Award nomination for Best Play and was produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Moon Over Buffalo, which marked Carol Burnett?s return to Broadway and starred Joan Collins and Frank Langella at the Old Vic in London, Twentieth Century with Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche, the Broadway musical The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Shakespeare In Hollywood, which was commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and won the Helen Hayes Award as Best New Play of the Year. His latest plays include Leading Ladies (which he also directed), Be My Baby, an adaptation of The Three Musketeers, which was commissioned by Bristol Old Vic, an adaptation of Treasure Island, and The Beaux? Stratagem, an adaptation of a Restoration comedy begun by Thornton Wilder, which he completed at the request of the Wilder Estate. His plays have been translated into over 20 languages. Other stars who have appeared in his plays over the years include Lynn Redgrave, Robert Goulet, Mickey Rooney, Hal Holbrook, Dixie Carter, Otto Schenk, and Kristin Bell. He studied music at Harvard with Leonard Bernstein and theatre history at Cambridge University in England.
Bio as of October, 2007.
Working in the Theatre (video)
Playwright and Director - April, 1992
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
Website:
http://www.kenludwig.com/
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