Also on Broadway: he received two Tony nominations as a co-author of Tintypes, wrote the music for the Broadway productions of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Yentl and Christopher Durang’s A History of the American Film, co-conceived and arranged The Gershwins’ Fascinating Rhythm, and wrote the score for Shakespeare’s Cymbeline at Lincoln Center Theater. The Grinch is one of six musicals Mel originally wrote for Minneapolis’s Children’s Theatre Company and for his daughter, Kate. With book and lyrics by longtime collaborator Timothy Mason, The Grinch, directed by Jack O’Brien and Matt August, has also been running for 19 consecutive sold-out seasons at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and began an ongoing yearly national tour in 2008-2009, along with a special production for the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville in 20, and a new production that played 5 cities in the UK in 2019-2020.
The Grinch has had three further holiday runs in New York at Madison Square Garden Theater, most recently in 2018. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, which opened at the Hilton Theatre (now known as the Lyric Theatre) in 2006 and continued at the St. He has also been, for many years, an Arts Professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he is Head Composer and Director of Production at the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. His work as a director encompasses operas, plays and musicals. He is well known as a prolific artist with a wide range of ability, and his body of work – so far - includes scores for 30 works of musical theater, 47 plays, 3 films and 3 operas. MEL MARVIN has maintained an active and successful career as a composer of music for theater and opera for over 50 years.
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