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Lynn Ahrens
United States • b. 1948-10-01
Lynn Ahrens is credited on 208 releases across 43 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1988–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
208
Pressings credited
43
Albums
5
Decades active
20
In collections
Biography
Lynn Ahrens (born October 1, 1948) is an American writer and lyricist for the musical theatre, television and film. She has collaborated with Stephen Flaherty for many years. She won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for the Broadway musical Ragtime. Together with Flaherty, she has written many musicals, including Lucky Stiff, My Favorite Year, Ragtime, Seussical, A Man of No Importance, Dessa Rose, The Glorious Ones, Rocky, Little Dancer, Anastasia, and Once on This Island. She was also nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for the animated Twentieth Century Fox film Anastasia. She wrote the teleplay of her 1994 musical adaption of A Christmas Carol, with music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Ahrens. She was a mainstay writer and performer for ABC-TV's Schoolhouse Rock! Ahrens also wrote lyrics for the title song for After the Storm, the documentary film about young Hurricane Katrina survivors putting on Once On This Island.
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Credited work
208 releases · 43 albums · active 1988–2026
- Performance · 348
- Other credits · 48
- Production · 24
Studios: A&M Studios · The Hit Factory · Bliss (4) · River Sound
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Hélène Ségara
- Renée Fleming
- Richard Marx
- Becky Taylor (2)
- Marlo Thomas & Friends
- Collabro
- Alan Menken
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