Famed composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz, currently represented on Broadway with the international hit musical Wicked, celebrates his birthday March 6.
A six-time Tony nominee and the recipient of the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award, Schwartz's Broadway credits also include Godspell, Pippin, Rags, The Magic Show, and Working. Schwartz also boasts three Academy Awards.
Flip through the shows he brought to Broadway below:
Pippin Playbill - Nov 1972
Ben Vereen in Pippin
Martha Swope/NYPL
Ben Vereen and John Rubinstein
Martha Swope/©NYPL for the Performing Arts
The Magic Show
Doug Henning (left) in The Magic Show.
Godspell Playbill - Feb 1977
Jeffrey Mylett, Herb Simon, Robin Lamont, Lamar Alford, Joanne Jonas, Sonia Manzano, Peggy Gordon, and Gilmer McCormick (front) in Godspell.
Martha Swope / The New York Public Library
Working Playbill - June 1978
Huon Mackley, Izuka Hoyle, and Nicola Espallardo
Robert Workman
Rags Playbill - Aug 1986
Judy Kuhn and Lonny Price in Rags
Martha Swope/©NYPL for the Performing Arts
Terrence Mann, Teresa Stratas, and Josh Blake in Rags
Wicked Playbill - July 2016
Kristin Chenoweth in Wicked
Joan Marcus
Idina Menzel in Wicked
Joan Marcus
Godspell Playbill - Opening Night
Hunter Parrish in Godspell.
Photo by Jeremy Daniel
Wallace Smith and Lindsay Mendez in Godspell.
Photo by Jeremy Daniel
Pippin Playbill - Aug 2013
The company in Pippin
Joan Marcus
Andrea Martin with Matthew James Thomas in Pippin.
Joan Marcus
