Score (1991) Once on This Island — (nominee) Olivier Award, London West End — Once on This Island — Best Musical (1995) — (winner) Academy Award, Anastasia (1998) — Best Music, Original Musical or Comedy Score (with Stephen Flaherty and David Newman) and Best Original Song (with Stephen Flaherty) — two nominations Golden Globes, Anastasia (1998) — Best Original Song — Motion Picture (for "Journey to the Past" and "Once Upon a December") (with Stephen Flaherty) — two nominations Annie Award, Anastasia (1998) — Music in a Feature Production (with Stephen Flaherty and David Newman) — (nomination) Tony Award Best Original Musical Score (1998) Ragtime (winner) Grammy nomination — Songs from Ragtime concept album Grammy nomination — Ragtime Original Broadway Cast Recording Drama Desk Award Outstanding Lyrics (1998) Ragtime (winner) Grammy nomination — Seussical Original Broadway Cast Recording Drama Desk, Outstanding Lyrics — A Man of No Importance (2003) — (nomination) Outer Critics Circle Award — A Man of No Importance (2003) Best Musical, (winner) Drama Desk, Outstanding Musical and Outstanding Lyrics, The Glorious Ones (2008) — (nomination) Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical (2008) The Glorious Ones — (nomination) Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Revival — Seussical (2008) — (nomination) Legacy Charles Isherwood wrote of Ahrens and Flaherty: "a few composers and lyricists continue to risk irrelevance by pursuing their own lonely paths. Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens are among them. Mr. Flaherty and Ms. Ahrens, best known for their score for Ragtime, continue to see the humanist potential in the medium. They insist on writing musicals that explore the struggles of men and women, as opposed to the synthetic creatures razzle-dazzling Broadway audiences with their preening vulgarity and self-devouring jokes." References External links Official website of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty Interview, 2003 at talkinbroadway.com Interview, 2009, Time Out New York 1948 births American musical theatre librettists American musical theatre lyricists Animation composers Broadway composers and lyricists Jewish American songwriters Living people Songwriters from New York (state) Syracuse University alumni Tony Award winners People from Neptune Township, New Jersey Neptune High School alumni 21st-century American Jews