![]() ![]() Moving to New York at the age of 24, he began an anticipated career as a novelist, but instead landed a job writing for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" column. In eighth grade, and then at Hamilton College, he wrote musicals in which he also starred. ![]() ![]() Meehan's off-Broadway musicals are Death Takes a Holiday and Annie Warbucks. He also coauthored the books of I Remember Mama, Ain't Broadway Grand (with Lee Adams), Bombay Dreams (with Meera Syal), Young Frankenstein (with Mel Brooks), Cry-Baby (with fellow Hairspray scribe Mark O'Donnell), Elf (with Bob Martin), Chaplin (with Christopher Curtis), and Rocky (with Sylvester Stallone). Over the course of his career, Meehan had 11 shows on Broadway, making his debut with Annie in 1977. The news was mentioned on the Instagram account belonging to Sasha Charnin Morrison, the daughter of Meehan's Annie collaborator Martin Charnin. Thomas Meehan, the Tony-winning book writer of the Broadway hits Annie, The Producers, and Hairspray, has died at the age of 88. ![]()
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