![]() ![]() “We’re still shuffling songs right now,” says Ahrens, “but I can tell you there’ll be something from Ragtime, of course, several numbers from A Man of No Importance, something from Once on This Island. ![]() Classic Stage Company, which presented the most recent Ahrens-Flaherty musical ( A Man of No Importance with Jim Parsons), is marking this occasion with a one-night-only-benefit evening of their music, titled after a big number from Ragtime, “Make Them Hear You,” Monday, April 17, at 7 p.m. Their song, indeed, was called “Village Voice.” Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens Courtesy of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens Their first song was a class assignment, a duet of two people trying to communicate with each other via ads in the Village Voice. It suddenly occurred to him to “ shake things up a bit and work with somebody for the first time in my life, so I hollered after her down the street, ‘Do you want to write a song together?’ She was surprised since-according to her-I’d never expressed any interest in collaborating before. Enter Flaherty, who-at the time and “primarily by default”-was struggling with all three chores: music, lyrics and book. Already an established writer, composer and singer, working mostly in commercials and children’s television ( Schoolhouse Rock), Ahrens was shopping around for a composer, Ahrens was shopping around for a composer. It was a room full of 32 other composers or lyricists or book-writers, one of whom was Lynn Ahrens. ![]()
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