He was an Emmy Award winning writer of television comedy, and a collaborator on screenplays, including Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs, To Be or Not To Be, The Producers and One Magic Christmas. McClatchy, co-authored the libretto of the opera 1984, composed by Lorin Maazel, first performed at London’s Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in 2005. Meehan, in collaboration with the poet J.D. He was a long-time contributor of humor pieces to The New Yorker, which were published in a collection entitled Yma, Ava, Yma, Abba, Yma, Oona, Yma, Ida, Yma Aga… and Others, by Simon and Schuster. He collaborated on many Broadway musicals including I Remember Mama Ain’t Broadway Grand Bombay Dreams (with Meera Syal) Cry Baby (with Mark O’Donnell) Young Frankenstein (with Mel Brooks) Elf, The Musical (with Bob Martin) Chaplin (with Christopher Curtis) Rocky the upcoming Dave, The Musical (with Nell Benjamin) and the off-Broadway musicals, Annie Warbucks Death Takes a Holiday (with Peter Stone) and the upcoming The Lady Eve (with Maury Yeston). Thomas Meehan is a three-time Tony Award winning librettist for the Broadway musicals Annie, 1977 The Producers, 2001 (co-written with Mel Brooks) and Hairspray, 2003 (co –written with Mark O’Donnell).
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