Howard Ashman Collection
Span: 1951-1991
Bulk: 1965-1991
English
collection
50 ft.
25 boxes
Howard Ashman is best remembered as the lyricist for the Disney animated musicals The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin, as well as the stage and film musical Little Shop of Horrors--collaborations with the composer Alan Menken. Ashman was the artistic director of the WPA Theater, and was also lyricist, librettist and director for several other works, including, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, composed by Menken, and Smile!, composed by Marvin Hamlisch.
Scripts and screenplays in various drafts, lyric sheets and lyric sketches, music, notes, correspondence, clippings, storyboards, personal and business papers, programs, photographs.
Howard Ashman Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
Ashman
Papers of the lyricist for stage and film musicals, and librettist and director of stage musicals.
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American Musical Theater
Film Music
Musical Theater
Theater
Ashman, Howard
Menken, Alan
Hamlisch, Marvin
Walt Disney Company
WPA Theater
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Part of His World: Howard Ashman
http://howardashman.com/
web site
scdb
Music Division, Library of Congress
IHAS
120821
loc.natlib.scdb.200033861