They announced the Kleban today,
on tax day. Note to self: don't spend it all... you will
owe thousands more than usual this time next year.
I found out about it on April 2nd. They thoughtfully waited to
call until the day after April Fool's. Needless to say, the news
made my Good Friday very good. But that was also the day Cara's
father had his first heart attack... and three days later he died.
It's been a strange, bittersweet couple of weeks.
I wanted to see a list of past winners, and I discovered that this
information is nowhere to be found online. Nevertheless, through
painstaking Google searching, I have compiled here what I was able to
find out from various press releases and bios. I cannot promise
that it's fully accurate... Also, the award goes back further
than 1996, but I can find nothing online about those ancient
pre-Internet days.
*Slashes indicate years that the prize was split.
| YEAR |
LYRICS |
LIBRETTO |
| 1996 |
Glenn
Slater |
John
Weidman |
| 1997 |
Mark
Waldrop |
? |
| 1998 |
Sarah
Schlesinger |
Luis
Santeiro / Lissa Levin |
| 1999 |
Michael
John LaChiusa |
Kirsten
Childs |
| 2000 |
David
Spencer / Jeff Marx & Bobby Lopez / Chad Beguelin / Marion Adler |
Stephen
Cole |
| 2001 |
Pat
Cook / John Bucchino |
Charles
Leipart |
| 2002 |
Jason
Robert Brown |
Lori
McKelvey |
| 2003 |
Nell
Benjamin |
Susan
DiLallo |
| 2004 |
Laurence
O’Keefe |
Julia
Jordan |
| 2005 |
David
Javerbaum |
Cheryl
Davis / Ken Stone |
| 2006 |
Alison
Hubbard / Robert Freedman & Stephen Lutvak |
Laurence
Holzman & Felicia Needleman |
| 2007 |
Joe
Iconis |
Jeremy
Desmon |
| 2008 |
David
Lindsay-Abaire |
Laura
Harrington / Bill Solly & Donald Ward |
| 2009 |
Beth
Falcone |
Kait
Kerrigan |
| 2010 |
Peter
Mills |
Barry
Wyner |
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