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Jul 28, 1987 · Hugh Wheeler, a playwright, novelist and screen writer who won Tony Awards for the books for the hit musicals ''A Little Night Music,'' ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''Candide,'' died of lung and...
Aug 1, 1987 · Aug. 1, 1987 12 AM PT. Associated Press. MONTEREY, Mass. — Hugh Wheeler, who won Tony awards for writing books for the musicals “Sweeney Todd” and “A Little Night Music,” has died after a long...
Hugh Wheeler was a Tony-award winning writer of musicals. He won his first Tony award for A Little Night Music and his second for Candide. He also contributed to Sweeney Todd and The Little Prince and the Aviator.
- Monterey, Massachusetts
- March 19, 1912
- St Pancras, London Borough of Camden, Greater London, England
Dec 13, 2006 · And in the decades that followed, Bernstein's "Candide" underwent so many revisions — most radically with Hugh Wheeler's new, more farcical, libretto in 1973 — that each new production has, in ...
Jul 29, 1987 · HUGH WHEELER,75, who won Tony awards for writing books for the musicals "Sweeney Todd" and "A Little Night Music," died July 26 at a hospital in Pittsfield, Mass. He had heart and lung...
Jul 3, 1986 · THE CAST - CANDIDE, by Leonard Bernstein; book adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler; lyrics by Richard Wilbur; additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and John LaTouche; orchestrations by Mr ...
Hugh Wheeler. Hugh Callingham Wheeler (19 March 1912 – 26 July 1987) was a British novelist, screenwriter, librettist, poet and translator. He resided in the United States from 1934 until his death and became a naturalized citizen in 1942. He had attended London University.
