Stephen Schwartz

Age: 78

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Stephen Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theatre composer and lyricist. In a career spanning over five decades, Schwartz has written hit musicals such as Godspell (1971), Pippin (1972), and Wicked (2003). He has contributed lyrics to a number of successful films, including Pocahontas (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), The Prince of Egypt (1998, music and lyrics), Enchanted (2007), and Disenchanted (2022). Schwartz has earned numerous accolades, including three Grammy Awards, three Academy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. He has received nominations for six Tony Awards and a Laurence Olivier Award. He received the Tony Award's Isabelle Stevenson Award in 2015. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stephen Schwartz, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Chronicles of Oz

Dorothy Gale a normal farmgirl from Kansas who lives with her pet dog Toto, Auntie Em and Uncle Henry gets caught in a tornado lands herself the magical land of Oz where she (with her dog Toto, a scarecrow, a tinman and a cowardly lion) is sent by the Good Witch of the North to travel to the Emerald City to ask the Wonderful Wizard to send her back home. Unfortunately, this is an Oz in the midst of a great unrest, and Dorothy's accidental assassination of the Wicked Witch of the East leads to a power struggle and a civil war in Munchkinland that threatens to spread to the rest of Oz.

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