Upcoming Special Event: Talk Back with Stephen Schwartz

Stephen Schwartz will attend the 3pm performance on Saturday, April 26th and he will hold a talk-back afterwards for about 30 minutes.

Tickets are still available for $38.00 by calling 800-494-8497 or visiting www.BoxOfficeTickets.com.

Mr. Schwartz was last at MetroStage when he attended a performance of Becoming George on May 2, 2006, and he participated in a panel discussion with director Brett Smock, Michael Kerker (ASCAP) and the authors of "How A New Musical Is Developed."

Schwartz has won almost every major award in his field including 3 Oscars, 3 Grammys, 4 Drama Desk Awards, 1 Golden Globe Award and a self-described "tiny handful of tennis trophies." Although his music has been nominated five times for Tony Awards, and he also received one nomination for Best Book of a Musical, he has not yet won a Tony.

Schwartz wrote lyrics for the successful 2007 Disney film Enchanted, collaborating with Alan Menken. Three songs from the film, "Happy Working Song," "That's How You Know" and "So Close" were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. A recent project is incidental music for his son Scott Schwartz's adaptation of Willa Cather's My Antonia. He has also written the theme song for the new Playhouse Disney show Johnny and the Sprites, starring John Tartaglia.

He is currently writing an opera based on the film Seance on a Wet Afternoon.