https://www.howardashman.com/welcome daily 1.0 2022-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1518492863103-TLCXNF23TH8QNR7O3POO/ashman+on+LSOH+stage.png Home Page https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1565889880951-LKJQOMEOSW5Z0KB6YL2P/Little+Shop+Rehearsal%2Bcupcakes.jpeg Home Page - First Rehearsal Little Shop Off-Broadway https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1518718825249-26YLB1QJD1BM1AEP2Y8U/Howard-Ashman-sitting.jpg Home Page https://www.howardashman.com/howards-work daily 0.75 2018-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1518643694650-Z89CK376TZZZB3RPHRF2/Ashman+in+the+studio.jpg Howard's Work https://www.howardashman.com/howards-work/little-shop-of-horrors monthly 0.5 2022-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1518644153795-49GF37N8K0YI8Z57LZES/LSOH+cast.jpg Howard's Work - Little Shop of Horrors - The original cast & crew Onstage at the Orpheum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1517713058177-QIOSEKAR7SQTTPZC7HS7/howardashman1788.png Howard's Work - Little Shop of Horrors Howard and Ellen Greene on set at the original off-Broadway production. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1517713059821-IA54VZNDLTXKTT9NLZGK/howard_ashman_1014.png Howard's Work - Little Shop of Horrors Howard working with Hy Anzel, the original Mushnik https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1517713061048-1TLJHLCAIE4ECS2H80ZJ/howard_ashman_1787.png Howard's Work - Little Shop of Horrors Howard working with Ellen Green on the original off-Broadway set. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1518158769557-1LCV4ZCIGX9BZWM0WPBY/movie+poster.jpg Howard's Work - Little Shop of Horrors The 1985 movie poster https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1518158782134-GVM46HKQDN6X3P6MWAGZ/Audrey.jpg Howard's Work - Little Shop of Horrors Seymour and Audrey II in the 1985 film https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1518158795401-AWYTAXF5BABI5C9033PO/LSOH+poster.jpg Howard's Work - Little Shop of Horrors Poster from a 2013 LSOH production in Norway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1518158800880-NERHHB735PY4BK12J7HK/LSOH+still.jpg Howard's Work - Little Shop of Horrors https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1517713361204-JWV1IE30OS76KL2NSIVV/Little-Shop-of-Horrors-August-82-1-playbill.jpg Howard's Work - Little Shop of Horrors - Productions & Awards ORIGINAL STAGE PRODUCTION Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman Music by Alan Menken Original production — WPA Theater: May 6, 1982 - June 6, 1982 (Directed by Howard Ashman) FILMS Inspired by the 1960 film The Little Shop of Horrors Film adaptation of the musical: December 1986 NOTABLE PRODUCTIONS Orpheum Theater: 1982-1986 Broadway production: 2003 2015 Encores at New York’s City Center Chocolate Factory (2006 - moved to West End) Return to Off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre (2019) NOTABLE RECORDINGS Original production cast recording (1982) Original Motion picture recording (1986) 2003 Broadway Cast recording Off-Broadway revival (2019) AWARDS New York Drama Critics Circle (Best Musical of 1982-83) Drama Desk Awards 1982-83 (Outstanding Musical, Outstanding Lyrics, Outstanding Special Effects) Outer Critics Circle Awards 1982-83 (Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical, Outstanding Music and Lyrics) Villager Theatre Awards (Outstanding Production, outstanding Acting, Outstanding Scenery, Outstanding Puppet Design) Named One of the Ten Best Plays of 1982 by The New York Times, New York Post and New York Daily News, Long Island Newsday, Gannet Newspapers, Other Stages & Cleveland Plain Dealer London - Evening Standard Award (Best Musical) https://www.howardashman.com/howards-work/the-little-mermaid monthly 0.5 2018-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1518493038733-EA7IGKITXUGHGJ5PRHFT/alan-menken-howard-ashman-at-oscars-alan-menken-16290836-1200-823-1000x686.jpg Howard's Work - The Little Mermaid - Winning the Oscar for "Under the Sea" Alan Menken and Howard accept the Oscar for Under the Sea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1517711627807-F8EFF7TM5FD20HJ07DRR/LittleMermaid-three.png Howard's Work - The Little Mermaid - Giving a mermaid her voice “I had a blast. Oh my gosh, Howard and I were just playing in the room – that’s what we did for seven days straight. Everybody else was stressed out and doing their job. And I was like, ‘Hey I’ve got it made, he’s got my role all laid out, knows how I’m supposed to sing and act it”. So I had a blast.” — Jodi Benson on recording the voice of Ariel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1517711629478-V6AKG3GDLM7GQOSP8UKO/LittleMermaid-two.png Howard's Work - The Little Mermaid As a writer, Ashman was evocative and accessible but also edgy and irreverent. It was his idea to transform the witch Ursula into a larger than life character, and to turn Sebastian the Crab, Ariel’s guardian, into a clever wise-cracking Trinidadian…” — Michael Eisner (from Work in Progress) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1517711631036-X7QA2VZZWQ9KT9IKE7CE/LittleMermaid-one.png Howard's Work - The Little Mermaid “The best of animation has combined with show-business savvy making The Little Mermaid the most entertaining animated feature since The Yellow Submarine.” David Denby, NY Magazine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1518665611515-D7H7FEU67MEQA8FM49JM/Little_Mermaid_Poster.jpg Howard's Work - The Little Mermaid - Productions & Awards THE LITTLE MERMAID FILM (1989) Directed and written by Ron Clements and John Musker Lyrics by Howard Ashman Music by Alan Menken Co-Producers: Howard Ashman, John Musker NOTABLE PRODUCTIONS Broadway musical, opened in 2008 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater NOTABLE RECORDINGS Motion Picture Soundtrack Original Broadway cast recording   AWARDS Academy Award: Best Song ("Under The Sea") Golden Globe: Best Song ("Under The Sea") Grammy: Best Song Written for A Motion Picture ("Under The Sea")   IMDB Awards Page https://www.howardashman.com/howards-work/god-bless-you-mr-rosewater monthly 0.5 2018-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1517610157911-OR9V4N3WGARVYBT2WE5U/Rosewater+1979.png Howard's Work - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Original Off-Broadway production Directed by Howard Ashman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1517610365967-YVLCA18C5D9INDR36JRG/howard_ashman_poster.png Howard's Work - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - Productions NOTABLE PRODUCTIONS WPA Theater: May 1979 Entermedia Theater: October 1979 Arena Stage: May 1981 Encores at New York CIty Center: July 2016 CAST RECORDING Encores at New York City Center Cast Recording https://www.howardashman.com/howards-work/the-confirmation monthly 0.5 2018-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1517607773744-26XQCEITWZ8QHVZLX7WR/confirmation+poster+2.png Howard's Work - The Confirmation - Poster for Annenberg Center production https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1517607804642-T507G8HVPCWE12WR8IWA/howard_ashman_childhood+home.png Howard's Work - The Confirmation - Howard at his childhood home, similar to the family home described in The Confirmation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1517607853754-AVKSQVGK5AUR3FIW4B6Q/confirmation+poster.png Howard's Work - The Confirmation - Productions & CREDITS ORIGINAL PRODUCTION Circle Repertory Company — Projects-in-Progress (1976) Directed by R. Stuart White ADDITIONAL PRODUCTIONS McCarter Theater: Princeton, NJ, 1977 (Directed by Kenneth Frankel) Annenberg Center, Philadelphia, 1977 (Directed by Kenneth Frankel) https://www.howardashman.com/howards-work/aladdin monthly 0.5 2018-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1517439039569-DV4HZ9PPQG7G2M7RTPIR/Aladdin-five.png Howard's Work - Aladdin - Howard as Aladdin in 1965 Ironically, Howard actually played Aladdin in a Childrens’ Theatre Association production in 1965 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1517605377386-PIJAPR7S9SZ4NYBCHEQY/Aladdin_Screenshot_1998.jpg Howard's Work - Aladdin - The Classic 1992 Disney Film Howard contributed three key songs for the film, which opened after his death. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1517605732643-VXPLKTNJRZWYO1RPRIVJ/aladdin_cast.jpg Howard's Work - Aladdin - Aladdin the Musical The hit musical opened on Broadway in 2014 and continues to run on stages around the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1518644122106-7P38IXU0SPT28GUH3CRU/Aladdin-work.jpg Howard's Work - Aladdin - Productions & Awards FILM (1992) Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker Lyrics by Howard Ashman Lyrics by Tim Rice Music by Alan Menken NOTABLE STAGE PRODUCTIONS Opened on Broadway in 2014 London West End May 2016 NOTABLE RECORDINGS Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1992) Broadway Cast Recording (2014) AWARDS The film won 2 Oscars & 3 Golden Globes (and garnered 27 more wins and 22 nominations) The Broadway musical was nominated for six Tony Awards, and won one. It was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. https://www.howardashman.com/howards-work/smile monthly 0.5 2018-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1518160083370-TERU9LQ88K8RXZ9L7VG4/Shubert_Alley.jpg Howard's Work - SMILE - Shubert Alley, 1986 In New York’s Shubert Alley, 1986, posters for both of Howard’s shows – SMILE on Broadway and Little Shop of Horrors off-Broadway - hung side by side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1517438236660-3N3777F1B47M3SK83OXO/Howard-Ashman-MH-SMILE.jpg Howard's Work - SMILE Howard and Marvin Hamlisch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1518119045249-ZDGMRX74ZJMLM4JTMIZK/howard_ashman_1051.png Howard's Work - SMILE - Howard on the set Howard on the set of Smile with actress Jodi Benson, who would go on to play Ariel in The Little Mermaid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1518159950312-FA73WCYQ0FN5SIFH7XOI/Howard_Smiling_beneath_Smile_Poster+%282%29.jpg Howard's Work - SMILE Howard beneath a Smile poster on Broadway https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1518119255216-GTTOOFP1Q8BMONFUNK7S/ffa3dc729ce1cb1bceac3ac50c2e7991--broadway-posters-window-cards.jpg Howard's Work - SMILE - Productions & Awards   ORIGINAL PRODUCTION Opened November 24, 1986 at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Directed by Howard Ashman Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman Music by Marvin Hamlisch FILM Based on the 1975 film Smile (Directed by Michael Richie) AWARDS & NOMINATIONS Tony Award Nomination for Best Book of a Musical Drama Desk Award Nominations for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical (Michael O'Gorman) and Outstanding Costume Design (William Ivey Long). https://www.howardashman.com/howards-work/beauty-and-the-beast monthly 0.5 2018-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1518817642721-GH8DFO5M8JM381PA0CTT/belle+and+books.jpg Howard's Work - Beauty & the Beast - Belle loved books Howard was particularly pleased with Belle’s love of books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1517424524984-ZUQ0LEOH18EX0M60IWFR/Beauty_Beast_Screenshot_0239.jpg Howard's Work - Beauty & the Beast - The Hit That Got Away... "The best Broadway musical score of 1991 was that written by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman for the Disney animated movie 'Beauty and the Beast.' — Frank RIch, New York Times, reviewing Broadway shows in 1991, three years before it actually premiered on Broadway https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1517424572486-98Y0AQH17D3126ANVP76/Beauty_Beast_Screenshot_1260.jpg Howard's Work - Beauty & the Beast - Strikingly Original... Ashman had the strikingly original idea to turn the inanimate objects of the Beast’s kitchen and dining room staff into characters, and then unleash them in a dazzling Broadway-style production number, Be Our Guest. - James R. Stewart in Disney War https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1518805520025-PVPTKILK6BLF7AUZD28C/A70-8828.jpg Howard's Work - Beauty & the Beast - Productions & Awards FILMS Beauty and the Beast (1991) - original animated film Beauty and the Beast (2017) - live-action film NOTABLE PRODUCTIONS April 1994 - Broadway Musical premiere March 17, 2017 - Live action adaptation of original animated film premiere NOTABLE RECORDINGS Beauty and the Beast motion picture soundtrack (1991) Beauty and the Beast: Original Broadway Cast Recording (2006) Beauty and the Beast Motion Picture Soundtrack (2017)   AWARDS Academy Award: Best Song ("Beauty And The Beast") Golden Globe: Best Song ("Beauty And The Beast") Grammy (Best Song Written for A Motion Picture): "Beauty And The Beast" Beauty and the Beast was the first animated film in history to be nominated for an Academy Award for best picture. https://www.howardashman.com/howards-work/other-songs monthly 0.5 2018-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1517937840117-59VEN6FI308AQO0KSKUP/babe-photo.jpg Howard's Work - 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His mother swears she chose his name because she thought it would be a good stage name. Howard adored theater, discovering what would be his lifelong passion at an early age. He directed backyard musicals and his sister’s birthday parties, he created publicity shots for shows he only dreamed of directing, he won talent shows, he wrote poems for his grandmother and stories for himself. He joined the Children’s Theatre Association at the age of nine and remained there as long as he lived in Baltimore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1516336519264-X6PELRA3NQ6MX7G11CKA/college1.png Timeline - College & Grad School 1967-1973 Howard spent his first year of college as a theater major at Boston University. He transferred to Goddard College in Vermont the following year, receiving a BA in Theater in 1971. During his college years, Howard’s focus turned from acting toward writing and directing. Howard attended Indiana University where he was a member of the Indiana Theater Company, the university’s professional touring repertory company. For his Master’s Thesis, he wrote the book and lyrics for a children’s musical based on the Hans Christian Andersen story, The Snow Queen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1516740953883-8YGHLO7UXEF19NZGQXJJ/smile.jpg Timeline - New York — 1973 - 1986 After receiving his degree, Howard moved to New York and was hired by Grosset & Dunlap Publishers. In one of fate’s little twists, one of the titles he worked on at that time was The Mickey Mouse Club Scrapbook. In 1974, his one act plays, ‘Cause Maggie’s Afraid Of the Dark and Mud Season, were produced at the Direct Theater. In 1976, he wrote the book for Dreamstuff, produced at the WPA Theater on the Bowery (music Marsha Malamet, lyrics Dennis Green). Circle Repertory’s Projects-In-Process produced Howard’s play, The Confirmation in 1976. In the following year it was produced at Princeton’s McCarter Theater in a production featuring Hershel Bernardi. In 1977 Howard and partners Stuart White, Kyle Renick and Steve Wells took over leadership of the WPA, moving it to a new space on Fifth Avenue and 19th Street. Howard was named Artistic Director of the theater, which quickly became known as a producer of distinctive off-off Broadway theater. In 1978, at the suggestion of renowned educator and head of the BMI Workshop, Lehman Engel, Howard began working with composer Alan Menken. Howard had long loved the works of Kurt Vonnegut and was anxious to create a musical based on his novel, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater. In May 1979, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, based on the seminal Kurt Vonnegut novel with book, lyrics and direction by Howard and music by Alan Menken, opened to great reviews at the WPA Theater. Soon after, the show moved to the Off Broadway Entermedia Theater for a short run. In 1981, Howard directed another production of the show at Arena Stage in Washington DC. In the spring of 1982 Little Shop of Horrors opened at the WPA Theater, with book, lyrics and direction by Howard and music by Alan Menken. An immediate underground success, it transferred during the summer to the Orpheum Theater in Manhattan’s East Village where it ran for five years, winning numerous awards and spawning productions all over the world. During 1982 and 1983, Howard directed productions of LSOH in Los Angeles and London as well as the first national tour of the show in 1984. In mid-1984, Howard and composer Jonathan Sheffer wrote two songs (Song For A Hunter College Graduate, Straw Boater Rag) for a Hal Prince-directed revue called Diamonds. A film version of Little Shop of Horrors, with a screenplay by Howard and directed by Frank Oz was released in 1986. Mean Green Mother From Outer Space, written by Howard and Alan for the film version of LSOH was nominated for an Academy Award. Howard’s next project was a new musical called Smile, which he directed and for which he wrote the book and lyrics. Marvin Hamlisch composed the music. Smile previewed in Howard’s hometown of Baltimore and transferred to the Lunt-Fontanne Theater on Broadway in November of 1986. Though the show enjoyed only a short run, it has since become popular with high school and college theater groups. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a5f9a3464b05ffda1f77970/1516740973071-IKLBYOF4BM6AFXJ8GT07/disney-time.jpg Timeline - Disney Collaboration — 1986-1991 Also in 1986, Howard began collaboration with the Disney Company. Working with composer, Barry Mann, Howard contributed a song to Disney’s animated film, Oliver and Company (Once Upon A Time In New York City). After considering many projects, Howard chose to work in animation and proposed to Disney that Alan Menken join him. He began work on The Little Mermaid and among his other significant contributions was the request that Sebastian the crab have a calypso lilt and the casting of Jodi Benson – who had starred in Smile - as Ariel. The Little Mermaid stunned critics and audiences alike when it premiered in November of 1989. Janet Maslin, reviewing the film in the New York Times wrote: Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, the lyricist and composer who collaborated on ''Little Shop of Horrors,'' score the film's first musical bull's-eye with ''Part of Your World,'' a powerhouse ballad in which Ariel (with the voice of Jodi Benson) belts out her envy of ''Bright young women/Sick of swimmin'/Ready to staaaand!'' Any Broadway musical would be lucky to include a single number this good. ''The Little Mermaid'' has half a dozen of them. Among their numerous awards, Howard and Alan won the Academy Award for best song (Under The Sea) in 1989. Earlier, in 1988 Howard had written for Disney a treatment for an animated film based on the tales of Aladdin. He was disappointed that the treatment was not accepted (three songs from the treatment were later used in the 1992 Disney film) but enthusiastically moved on to several new projects – a treatment and screenplay for a film based on Tina Turner’s autobiography and another animated musical to be based on the French fairy tale Beauty and The Beast. During this period, Howard developed an unusual infection and in early 1988, he learned that he was HIV positive. In order to allow Howard to continue working, the Beauty and The Beast creative team and others from the Disney Company set up workspace at a hotel in Beacon New York where Howard had moved with his partner, Bill Lauch. Howard’s contributions to the film - including the concept of the castle’s household objects being animated - are many and well documented. He was intimately involved in the casting of the film as well as working directly – sometimes, if he was ill, attending recording sessions by phone -- with the film’s actors on their characters and performances. Although he lived to see the film in rough, Howard died from complications of AIDS on March 14, 1991, before the film was completed. He was 40 years old. Janet Maslin, reviewing the film in the New York Times, quoting from Be Our Guest, wrote: Soup du jour, hot hors d'ouevres / Why, we only live to serve / Try the gray stuff, it's delicious / Don't believe me? / Ask the dishes! This demonstrates Mr. Ashman's gifts as an outstandingly nimble lyricist. His death from AIDS in March at age 40 cut short a brilliant career, but the jubilant energy of his work will long live on. 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