*Given especially for this auction in celebration of the Midtown West School's First Grade Theatre Study, which celebrates 10 years this year (2006-2016)*

Handwritten Musical Phrase and Lyrics from Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens of Seussical.  

...a person's a person, no matter how small...

Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty won the Tony Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards and received two Grammy nominations for their score of the Broadway musical Ragtime. For the songs and score of Twentieth Century Fox's animated feature film Anastasia, they garnered two Academy Award nominations and two Golden Globe nominations. They are recipients of the 2014 Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement, and in 2015 were inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. Their mutual theatre credits include Seussical (Grammy nomination, now one of the most frequently-performed shows in America); Once On This Island (eight Tony nominations, London’s Olivier Award for Best Musical); My Favorite Year; A Man of No Importance (Best Musical, 2003 Outer Critics Circle Award); Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life; Dessa Rose; Lucky Stiff; The Glorious Ones: Rocky; and Little Dancer. (2014 world premiere, Kennedy Center).