[1] In 1980, Shucker worked at Curtain Call Theater in Tustin, California where he met Sawyer, who became his collaborator and companion.
[3] In 1991, Shucker won the Dramalogue and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle awards for the score of Babes.
[2][4] In March 1991, Shucker, visibly weakened, attended the audition session to select the cast for the second run of Babes.
On Friday, April 12, 1991, Shucker died in Hoag Memorial Hospital in Newport Beach, California.
[6] His friend Michael Michetti, art director of Babes,[1] completed the lyrics partially written by Brian Shucker of Yearbook: The High School Musical, which were released in 1996.