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Biography
Lucy Simon began her professional career at the age of sixteen singing folk tunes with sister Carly and later folk-rock.
Lucy Simon made her Broadway debut as the composer of The Secret Garden , for which she was nominated for a 1991 Tony Award for Best Original Score and a 1991 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music. She also wrote songs for the Off-Broadway show A...My Name is Alice.
Simon's setting of Wynken, Blynken, and Nod has been recorded by many diverse artists, including The Doobie Brothers, Mitzie Collins, and The Big Three (Cass Elliot, Tim Rose, and James Hendricks). In the seventies, Simon made two singer/songwriter-styled albums for RCA Records, the self-titled Lucy Simon, followed by Stolen Time.
She composed the music for a musical version of the Russian novel Doctor Zhivago, with lyricists Michael Korie and Amy Powers and book writer Michael Weller. The musical had its world premiere at the La Jolla Playhoue, San Diego, California, in May 2006. A new version of Dr. Zhivago ran in Sydney, Australia, Melbourne and Brisbane in 2011, starring Anthony Warlow and produced by John Frost with Des McAnuff directing. Anthony Warlow starred in the Australian production of The Secret Garden and at that time Simon said of him, "There is my Zhivago".
She has won a Grammy award in 1981 together with her husband, David Levine, in the Best Recording for Children category for In Harmony/A Sesame Street Record, and again in 1983 in the same category for In Harmony 2.
There are no productions for this artist in the Season Schedule of Performances which currently only dates back to 1991.
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