Laurence Crawford "Larry" O'Keefe (born 1969) is an American

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and

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for

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and

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. He won the 2001

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, Outstanding Musical as composer for '' Bat Boy: The Musical''.

Early life and education

O'Keefe was born in 1969. He is the second of three sons born to writer and editor Daniel O'Keefe and his wife Deborah. All three sons also became writers. Laurence O'Keefe is a graduate of

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(1991),"Laurence O'Keefe (Adams '91)"
harvard1991.org, accessed July 28, 2019 where he studied

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, wrote humor for the ''

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'', and sang with the

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. He got his start in musical theater through Harvard's

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, performing in the Pudding's drag burlesques. He also composed ''Suede Expectations'', book by

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, and wrote a libretto for another production, ''Romancing the Throne''.Profile
hastypudding.org; accessed December 6, 2017. O'Keefe later studied composition and film scoring at

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and the

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, receiving a masters in composition for film and television.

Career

''Bat Boy: The Musical''

O'Keefe has composed music and lyrics for a wide variety of works. He wrote the score for '' Bat Boy: The Musical'', which ran Off-Broadway from March 3 to December 2, 2001. ''Bat Boy'' received eight

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nominations, including for Outstanding Music and Outstanding Lyrics, won two Richard Rodgers Awards from the

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, and won both the

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Award and the Outer Critics' Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical. It has since been produced by more than 500 regional and amateur companies across the USA. ''Bat Boy: The Musical'' opened at the

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's West End on September 8, 2004, and ran until January 15, 2005. ''Bat Boy: The Musical'' has also been produced in

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, and

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and

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in Japan, and at the

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. In 2001, O'Keefe received the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award. In 2004 O'Keefe won the

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Award for Outstanding Lyrics, a $100,000 prize, in part for his work on ''Bat Boy''. There are two Kleban Awards every year, one given to a lyricist, the other to a book writer.

''Legally Blonde: The Musical''

O'Keefe and his wife Nell Benjamin's '' Legally Blonde: The Musical'' opened in

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on February 2, 2007. It opened on Broadway at the

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on April 29, 2007, and closed on October 19, 2008. For their work on ''Legally Blonde'', they received

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nominations for Outstanding Music and Outstanding Lyrics, as well as a

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nomination for Best Score. The first national tour of ''Legally Blonde'' opened at the

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on September 23, 2008. While nearly identical to the Broadway production, the touring production received considerably more enthusiastic reviews than the Broadway version, and was more profitable. The first national tour ended August 15, 2010, at the

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. ''Legally Blonde'' opened on January 12, 2010 at the

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in London's West End, starring UK television stars

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, Jill Halfpenny and

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, plus pop star

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. Many reviews were positive, especially for the cast. ''The Independent'' reviewer wrote: "Totally blown away...it's ridiculously enjoyable from start to finish." ''The Guardian'' reviewer concluded "the predominantly female audience with whom I saw the show seemed to be having a whale of a time and did not give a damn about the fact that the musical is little more than a nonsensical fairytale." ''Legally Blonde'' won three 2011

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including Best New Musical and Best Actress in a Musical for Sheridan Smith and Best Supporting Performance in a Musical for Jill Halfpenny. The show has had several tours worldwide, including the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. It premiered to a sold-out audience at the Ronacher Theatre in

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''Heathers: The Musical''

With co-author Kevin Murphy, O'Keefe co-wrote '' Heathers: The Musical'', a musical based on the movie of the same name. Directed by

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, the musical premiered at the Hudson Backstage Theatre in Los Angeles in September 2013. The musical then was produced

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in 2014 at the New World Stages Theatre. ''Heathers'' received its UK premiere at

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in London in June 2018. Starring Carrie Hope Fletcher as Veronica and

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as JD, the production was a huge hit; on the first day tickets went on sale, the demand for tickets crashed the Other Palace website twice, and whole eight-week limited run sold out before opening night. The show moved to the West End, opening at the

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on September 14, 2018. The musical received six nominations for the 2019

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Awards, including Best New Musical (winner), Best Actor In A Musical (Muscato), Best Actress In A Musical (winner, Fletcher), Best Director (Andy Fickman) and Best Lighting Design (Ben Cracknell).

Theatre, TV and concerts

O'Keefe and his wife Nell Benjamin collaborated on a short musical titled ''The Mice''. ''The Mice'' was presented by

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as a part of the three-show evening '' 3hree'' at the

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in Philadelphia in 2000 and in Los Angeles in 2001. With Benjamin, O'Keefe has written two musicals for

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: '' Cam Jansen'' (2004) and '' Sarah, Plain and Tall'' (2002).Van Gelder, Lawrenc
"Theater Review: The Pain of Loss, Assuaged by a Fresh Face"
'The New York Times'', July 18, 2002 In February 2004, O'Keefe guest-conducted the Harvard Pops Orchestra in an evening of his songs, and premiered his short opera ''The Magic Futon''.
onstageboston.com, February 6, 2004 A repeat performance with the Pops was presented in November 2008. O'Keefe worked with David Shiner on the music, lyrics, and book, for ''Drop Everything'', a new clown show/musical,

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ped at ACT Theatre in Seattle. Excerpts were also produced at the Tollwood Arts Festival in

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and the Lisbon Comedy Festival. O'Keefe and Benjamin wrote an operatic musical, first produced at New York's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in 2012, titled ''Life of The Party''. It was set in the Soviet Union in 1953 and based on true stories. It focused on the artists who labored under harrowing conditions to create Soviet movie musicals, trying to please both Stalin's regime and the public. The show later received a new

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's Steinhardt School in March 2017. O'Keefe and Benjamin have written many songs and pieces for movies, television and concerts, including ''

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'' on Comedy Central, ''

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'' on

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, ''

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'' on UK's ITV, ''

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'' on

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, and ''

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'' on

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. O'Keefe arranged and orchestrated the overture and other pieces of music for a Beatles tribute concert at the

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, titled "Sgt. Pepper's At 40". O'Keefe and Benjamin contributed a new song, "This Is The Show", to the season finale of '' Best Time Ever With Neil Patrick Harris'' on

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. They wrote narration and new comic verses for the

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's New Year's Eve 2015 gala, ''La Vie Parisienne''. This was set to the music of

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's ''

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'', replacing the traditional introductory poems by

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, and performed that night by

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Teaching and other work

O'Keefe is active as a writer, teacher and advocate in the Broadway and New York theatre communities. He has served on the Nominating Committee of the

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. He is a member of the

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, where he teaches composition and writing to emerging theater artists as the co-head of the

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's Fellows Program, and conducts master classes for the DGF's Traveling Fellows Program. Since 2005 O'Keefe has served as the head of the Music Department and Resident Artist for

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's Freshman Arts Program. He teaches master classes across the country at Harvard,

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and elsewhere.

List of shows and major theatre productions

* 1996 – ''Euphoria'',

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Theater, Los Angeles * 1997 – '' Bat Boy: The Musical'',

Theater, Los Angeles * 2000, 2001 – ''The Mice'',

, Philadelphia and

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, Los AngelesSuskin, Steven
"ON THE RECORD: 3hree, Old Strouse & Adams, and a Surprising New Musical"
Playbill, April 22, 2001Haithman, Diane

''Los Angeles Times'', April 22, 2001Hitchcock, Laura

curtainup.com, April 25, 2001 * 2001 – '' Bat Boy: The Musical'', Union Square Theatre, New York * 2002 – ''Sarah, Plain and Tall'', based on the Patricia MacLachlan children's book * 2004 – ''Cam Jansen and the Curse of the Emerald Elephant'', after the Cam Jansen mystery series,

Lamb's Theatre Lamb's Theatre was an Off-Broadway theater located at 130 West 44th Street, Manhattan, New York City inside the Manhattan Church of the Nazarene, near Times Square in New York City. It seated approximately 350 and specialized in musical productio ...

, New York * 2004 – '' Bat Boy: The Musical'',

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, Leeds; and

, London * 2007 – '' Legally Blonde: The Musical'',

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, San Francisco; and

, New York * 2008 and 2011 – '' Legally Blonde: The Musical'', 1st US National Tour; 2nd US National Tour * 2010 – '' Legally Blonde: The Musical'',

, London * 2010 – ''

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'',

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, New York * 2012, 2017 – ''Life of the Party'', LaGuardia High School of Art, Music and Performing Arts,

Steinhardt School, New York; * 2012 and 2016– '' Legally Blonde: The Musical'', 1st UK/Ireland National Tour; 2nd UK/Ireland National Tour * 2013 – '' Legally Blonde: The Musical'', Ronacher Theatre, Vienna''Legally Blonde''
musicalsworld.be (in German), accessed July 26, 2019 * 2013 – '' Heathers: The Musical'',

Hudson Theatre The Hudson Theatre is a Broadway theater at 139–141 West 44th Street, between Seventh Avenue and Sixth Avenue, in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. One of the oldest surviving Broadway venues, the Hudson was built ...

, Los Angeles * 2014 – '' Heathers: The Musical'',

New World Stages New World Stages is a five-theater, Off-Broadway performing arts complex in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It is between 49th and 50th Streets beneath the plaza of the Worldwide Plaza complex at Eighth Avenue. ...

, New York * 2018 – '' Heathers: The Musical'',

, London; and

, London

References

External links

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