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Career Milestones for Stephen Schwartz

1968 Schwartz receives a BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University. He had studied piano and composition at The Juilliard School of Music while in high school.

1969 Schwartz works in A&R for RCA Records and composes the title song for the hit Broadway play Butterflies Are Free. The song is subsequently used in the movie version

1971 A 23-year-old Schwartz bursts onto the Broadway scene with music and lyrics for the smash Godspell. This includes the pop classic "Day by Day."

1971 His score for Godspell earns Schwartz two Grammy Awards and his first of three gold records.

1971 Schwartz collaborates with Leonard Bernstein to write Bernstein's Mass, the landmark piece which inaugurates The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

1972 Pippin, with music and lyrics by Schwartz, opens on Broadway with Bob Fosse directing. The production runs for five years.

1974 Schwartz composes music and lyrics for The Magic Show, the Broadway musical which introduces audiences to magician Doug Henning. The production runs for five years.

1974 Godspell becomes the first show to break the color barrier in South Africa when Schwartz insists it be performed by an integrated cast before integrated audiences.

1976 With Godspell, Pippin and The Magic Show all enjoying successful runs, Schwartz becomes the first composer/lyricist to have three shows running on Broadway at the same time.

1978 Schwartz adapts the book of Studs Terkel's Working and directs it on Broadway. The show earns him The Drama Desk Award for best director of a musical. He also co-directs the PBS television version.

1986 Rags, with lyrics by Schwartz opens at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.

1988 Baker's Wife, scored by Schwartz and directed by Trevor Nunn, makes its London debut.

1991 Children of Eden premiers in London at the Prince Edward Theatre.

1993 Disney asks Schwartz to write lyrics for an Alan Menken tune to be used during the credits for movie Life With Mikey. He pens "Cold Enough to Snow," and the Menken/Schwartz collaboration begins.

1994 Schwartz begins directing ASCAP's semi-annual musical theatre workshops.

1995 For Disney's Pochahontas, Schwartz (along with Alan Menken) wins an Academy Award for best score from a musical or comedy and an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award and Grammy Award for the song "Colors of the Wind."

1996 Schwartz (again with Alan Menken) is nominated for an Oscar for his lyrics for Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

1997 Schwartz releases his new Compact Disc, Reluctant Pilgrim. This is the first time that Schwartz provides the music, lyrics, vocals and plays the keyboards on a CD.

1999 Schwartz receives an Academy Award for the song "When You Believe" from the DreamWorks SKG animated feature, The Prince of Egypt.

2000 Schwartz's songs and score featured on The Wonderful World of Disney's live action special, Geppetto for ABC TV.

Schwartz prepares new musical for Broadway, Wicked, based on the novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.

2001 Uncharted Territory, a new CD of personal songs, comes out on Fynsworth Alley label. Now functioning as a singer-songwriter, Stephen Schwartz performs his own new songs.

2003 Wicked opens on Broadway, and Schwartz produces the cast album.

2004 Schwartz receives Drama Desk award for Wicked . He begins work on Hans Christian Anderson show

2006 Wicked original cast album is certified Platinum.

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