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Tom Eyen. Tom Eyen, 1986. Tom Eyen (August 14, 1940 – May 26, 1991) was an American playwright, lyricist, television writer and director. He received a Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Dreamgirls in 1981. Eyen is best known for works at opposite ends of the theatrical spectrum. Mainstream theatergoers became acquainted with him in ...
Sep 12, 2021 · Tom Eyen BIO. Writer and director. Eyen is best known for his 1981 TonyAward-winning Broadway musical Dreamgirls, based loosely on the lives of the members of the female vocal trio The Supremes ...
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Women Behind Bars is a camp black comedy play by Tom Eyen, parodying the prison exploitation films produced by Universal, Warner Bros. and Republic Pictures during the 1950s. Plot [ edit ] Set in the Women's House of Detention in Greenwich Village , there is, among the range of women, an innocent young woman, a chain-smoking street-wise tough ...
Dreamgirls is a Broadway musical, with music by Henry Krieger and lyrics and book by Tom Eyen.Based on the show business aspirations and successes of R&B acts such as The Shirelles, James Brown, Jackie Wilson, and others, but closely follows the story of The Supremes as the musical follows the story of a young Black female singing trio from Chicago, Illinois called "The Dreams", who become ...
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SIDELIGHTS: Tom Eyen had a score of Off-Broadway plays to his credit—including the critically acclaimed Why Hannah's Skirt Won't Stay Down and Women behind Bars—when in 1981 he wrote the book and lyrics for perhaps his most well-known effort, and one of the biggest Broadway successes of the 1980s, Dreamgirls.
May 28, 1991 · Tom Eyen, a prolific experimental playwright who wrote the book and lyrics for the 1981 hit Broadway musical "Dreamgirls," died early Sunday morning at his home in Palm Beach, Fla. He was 50 years ...
Feb 14, 2010 · Caption: Dreamgirls author-lyricist and Cambridge native Tom Eyen, second from left, with central Ohio relatives Chuck Eyen (Tom's nephew), left, Arnetia Walker (actress from the touring show ...
