John Bucchino is an American

United States

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 composer. His hometown is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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He has done work for several off-Broadway shows and highly acclaimed concerts

Bucchino made his Broadway debut with A Catered Affair

A Catered Affair

A Catered Affair is a musical with a book by Harvey Fierstein and music and lyrics by John Bucchino. It is based on both the 1956 film The Catered Affair written by Gore Vidal and the original 1955 teleplay by Paddy Chayefsky, set in 1953 in the Bronx...

as composer/lyricist with four time Tony Award

Tony Award

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-winner Harvey Fierstein

Harvey Fierstein

Harvey Forbes Fierstein is a U.S. actor and playwright, noted for the early distinction of winning Tony Awards for both writing and originating the lead role in his long-running play Torch Song Trilogy, about a gay drag-performer and his quest for true love and family, as well as writing the...

 as bookwriter and co-star. The out-of-town production received mixed reviews in its San Diego try-out at the Old Globe (September 20 - November 11, 2007). The Broadway production opened on April 17, 2008, with 116 regular performances and 27 previews performed between March 24 and July 27, 2008.

Off-Broadway, Bucchino has served as musical director of Holly Near: Fire in the Rain in 1993

Bucchino has released several CDs with his music and has been featured in Broadway revues and concerts, including Lincoln Center's American Songbook series. He is good friends with fellow composer Academy Award-winner Stephen Schwartz

Stephen Schwartz (composer)

Stephen Lawrence Schwartz is an American musical theatre lyricist and composer. In a career spanning over four decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell , Pippin and Wicked...

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Bucchino is the recipient of the Johnny Mercer Songwriter Award (1997), the Songwriters' Fellowship Award (1998), the ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award (1998), the Second Stage Constance Klinsky Award (2000), the Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Commendation Award (2000), and the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation

Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation

The Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation was a foundation started in 1997 by the family and friends of Jonathan Larson, composer of the musical Rent. From 1997 to 2008, the foundation awarded grants to musical theatre composers, lyricists and book writers. Following the 2008 grants, the...

and Kleban Awards (2001), and the Fred Ebb Award (2005).

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