– S'Wonderful, S'Marvelous, S'Gershwin 1973 Peabody Award for Broadcasting – S'Wonderful, S'Marvelous, S'Gershwin 1977 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director of a Musical – Annie 1977 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics – Annie 1977 Tony Award for Best Original Score – Annie 1999 Grammy Award for Best Rap Album – Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life 2006 The Richard Rodgers Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Performing Arts 2011 Goodspeed Musical Award for Outstanding Contribution to the American Musical Theatre 2013 The first George M. Cohan Ascap Award Nominations 1972 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy, Variety, or Music – S'Wonderful, S'Marvelous, S'Gershwin 1973 Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Comedy, Variety, or Music – Get Happy 1977 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical – Annie 1982 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical – The First 1982 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical – The First Miscellaneous Miscellaneous Member of ASCAP, The Writers Guild, The Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Author: Annie: A Theatrical Memoir (1977) - Published E.P. Dutton, Author: The Giraffe who Sounded like Ol' Blue Eyes (illustrated by Kate Draper - Published by E.P. Dutton) Album: Nancy Wilson Live at the Sands (1969) Album: Annie Original Broadway recording (1977 Columbia Records) Album: Upstairs at O'Neal's Original New York Company (1982 Bruce Yeko Records) Album: Incurably Romantic (seventeen lyrics; various composers) Album: Annie 30th Anniversary Original recording (2005 Time-Life Records) Album: Second Coming - Shelly Burch live at the Metropolitan Room in New York City Songs recorded by: Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis, Rod McKuen, Grace Jones, Jay-Z, Nancy Wilson, Andrea McArdle, Shelly Burch, and others Unproduced musical - Softly - lyricist, music by Harold Arlen, book by Hugh Wheeler Cabaret Acts - Nancy Wilson, Diahann Carrol, Leslie Uggams, Jose Ferrer, Tom Poston, Larry Kert, Andrea McArdle, and Shelly Burch. Notes References Bloom, Ken. American Song: The Complete Musical Theater Companion 1877–1995, Vol. 2, 2nd edition, Schirmer Books, 1996. Green, Stanley; Taylor, Deems. The World of Musical Comedy: The Story of the American Musical Stage, A. S. Barnes, 1980. Larkin, Colin. The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 3rd edition, Macmillan, 1998. Press, Jaques Cattell (ed.). ASCAP Biographical Dictionary of Composers, Authors and Publishers, 4th edition, R. R. Bowker, 1980 External links 1934 births 2019 deaths 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers American musical theatre lyricists American