James Lapine, winner of three Tony Awards, five Drama Desk Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize with Stephen Sondheim for Sunday in the Park with George, celebrates his birthday January 10.
Lapine's Broadway credits as a book writer and director include Sunday in the Park with George; Into the Woods; Passion; Falsettos (book with William Finn); Dirty Blonde (by Claudia Shear and conceived with her); and Act One. Broadway credits as a director include Golden Child, The Diary of Anne Frank, Amour, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Annie.
Flip through photos of his shows below:
Sunday in the Park with George Playbill - May 1984
Bernadette Peters
Martha Swope/©Billy Rose Theatre Division, NYPL for the Performing Arts
Into the Woods Playbill - Opening Night, Nov 1987
Chip Zien, Joanna Gleason, and Bernadette Peters
Martha Swope/©NYPL for the Performing Arts
Falsettos Playbill - Opening Night, May 1992
Michael Rupert, Heather Mac Rae, Carolee Carmello, Chip Zien, Barbara Walsh, Stephen Bogardus and Jonathan-Kaplan in Falsettos
Carol Rosegg/ Martha Swope
Passion
Jere Shea and Donna Murphy in Passion
Joan Marcus
The Diary of Anne Frank Playbill - Jan 1998
A Scene from The Diary of Anne Frank
Golden Child
Kim Miyori, Randall Duk Kim, Tsai Chin, and Ming-Na Wen
Dirty Blonde Playbill
Claudia Shear in Dirty Blonde
Photo by Joan Marcus
Amour Playbill
Norm Lewis, Melissa Errico, Sarah Litzinger, John Cunningham, Malcom Gets, Christopher Fitzgerald, and Nora Mae Lyng
Joan Marcus
Putnam County Spelling Bee Playbill
Cast of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Annie Playbill - Opening Night
Lilla Crawford in Annie
Joan Marcus
Act One Playbill - Opening Night
Santino Fontana and Andrea Martin
