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James Elliot Lapine (born January 10, 1949) is an American stage director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist. He has won the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical three times, for Into the Woods, Falsettos, and Passion. He has frequently collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and William Finn .
Lapine has been nominated for twelve Tony Awards winning on three occasions and has received five Drama Desk Awards and the Pulitzer Prize. In 2011, he was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame and in 2015 was the recipient of the Mr. Abbott Award presented by the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers for a lifetime of exceptional ...
James Lapine is an American writer and director who has worked on many musicals, such as Into the Woods, Passion and Custody. He was born in 1949 in Ohio and is married to Sarah Kernochan.
Jul 28, 2021 · James Lapine’s book shows how he and Stephen Sondheim invested two years of work to burnish their musical from an avant-garde near-disaster to a mainstream classic.
James Lapine is one of most honored playwrights and directors in American theater today ("Sunday in the Park with George," "Into the Woods," "Passion," "March of the Falsettos"). Lapine has...
Aug 3, 2021 · James Lapine worked with Stephen Sondheim on Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods and Passion. In Putting it Together, he draws on interviews with Sondheim and...
James Lapine is a writer and director of musicals and plays, known for Into the Woods (2014), Passion (1996) and Falsettos (1992). He has won three Tony Awards and was nominated seven times for his work with Stephen Sondheim and others.
