James Lapine
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James Elliot Lapine (born January 10, 1949) is an American stage director, playwright, screenwriter, and librettist.
For Into the Woods, Falsettos, and Passion, he has three times been recognized for Best Book of a Musical.
He has regularly collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and William Finn.
Early life
Lapine was born in Mansfield, Ohio, and the son of Lillian (Feld) and David Sanford Lapine. In 1971, he graduated from Franklin and Marshall College. Despite the fact that he did not specifically pursue theatre in childhood, Lapine did play Jack in an elementary school production of Jack and the Beanstalk.
Personal life
Lapine is married to American screenwriter and producer Sarah Kernochan. Phoebe Lapine, the couple's daughter, is a food writer. Sarna Lapine, James Lapine's niece, curated the 2016 Broadway revival and the 2017 Broadway revival of Sunday in the Park with George.
Career
Lapine studied graduate study in photography and graphic design at the California Institute of the Arts, where he earned an MFA in 1973. He was a photographer, graphic designer, and architectural preservationist, and he taught design at Yale School of Drama. He produced and directed Gertrude Stein's Photograph, which was produced Off-Broadway at the Open Space in SoHo in 1977. He continued to produce and direct Off-Broadway plays and musicals, as well as directing composer William Finn's March of the Falsettos in 1981; the musical received the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play. "Mr. Lapine's wildly resourceful staging," Frank Rich, the New York Times theater critic, wrote.
Lapine was introduced to Stephen Sondheim in 1982. George and Lapine wrote the book and directed; Sondheim produced the music and lyrics. The play was first produced off-Broadway in 1983 and then transferred to Broadway in 1984. Into the Woods, Lapine's next musical, debuted on Broadway in 1987, for which Lapine received the Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Best Book of a Musical. They then collaborated on the musical Passion, for which Lapine wrote the book and directed. The musical appeared on Broadway and in the West End in 1996, receiving a nomination for Best New Musical and the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, as well as other awards and nominations. Sondheim on Sondheim, the revue, was the couple's last collaboration. It received the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical Revue on Broadway in 2010.
In 1992, Lapine returned to William Finn, wrote the book and directed the Broadway musical Falsettos. Lapine wrote the book and Finn created the music for A New Brain, which premiered Off-Broadway in 1998. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which premiered Off-Broadway in 2005 and later moved to Broadway, was performed together by Finn's musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which debuted off-Broadway in 2005 and then debuted on Broadway. "Mr. Lapine has sharpened all of the musical's elements without offending its enthralling modesty," a New York Times reporter said of the Spelling Bee Broadway transfer. Little Miss Sunshine, the new Finn-Lapine creation, debuted at the La Jolla Playhouse in California in 2011.
Lapine has produced several dramas, including Dirty Blonde, which appeared off-Broadway and then on Broadway in 2000. With direction from Shear and Lapine, Claudia Shear and Lapine, Ben Brantley wrote Lapine's direction, "stylish and compassionate." For the Best Direction of a Play, Lapine was nominated for the Tony Award and Drama Desk Awards.
Annie's Broadway revival in 2012 was directed by Lapine. Act One, Moss Hart's autobiography, appeared on Broadway at the Lincoln Center Vivian Beaumont Theater in April 2014. He wrote a stage adaptation.
Flying Over Sunset was written and directed by Lapine. In August 2015, the Vineyard Arts Project (Martha's Vineyard) hosted a staged singing/reading. Tom Kitt is the composer, and Michael Korie writes the lyrics. With the formal opening scheduled for December 13, the musical premiered on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on November 11, 2021, in previews. The production was originally scheduled to open on April 16, 2020, but it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lapine directed his first film, Impromptu, which also stars Sarah Kernochan. George Sand and Chopin's romance, as well as actress Judy Davis and Hugh Grant, are central to the story. He appeared on Life With Mikey with Michael J. Fox for Disney. He directed Passion, starring the original Broadway cast members, in 1993. In 1999, he directed the film adaptation of Anne Tyler's novel Earthly Possessions, starring Susan Sarandon and Stephen Dorff for HBO. He wrote the screenplay for Disney's film version of Into the Woods (2014), directed by Rob Marshall. With Viola Davis, Hayden Panettiere, and Catalina Sandino Moreno, he wrote and directed the film Custody in 2016.
At a special gala on October 19, 2015, Lapine was named the 2015 Mr. Abbott Award. The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation "in recognition of a lifetime of outstanding work in the theater." How Stephen Sondheim and I Created in the Park with George was released on August 3, 2021, and Lapine's book Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created in a cover story in the New York Times Book Review on August 8, 2021.