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...play was written by Arthur L. Kopit ’59 shortly after he graduated, and its unconventional path to Broadway included a premiere at the Agassiz Theatre. The director is David R. Gammons ’92, the student producer is Christine K.L. Bendorf ’10, and almost all the actors are current undergraduates at Harvard College. Fortunately, the play is not weighed down by its symbolic connections, instead maintaining a cutting wit and sense of the absurd throughout...
...Urine Good Company [Note the pun —ed.].RR: In the play, why are there restrictions on #1, but not #2?BG: There actually are restrictions on #2. That fact comes up in one of the songs. But urination: Much funnier than defecation.RR: Do you think other Broadway musicals would benefit from the inclusion of pee?BG: Probably. There actually is evidence that “Les Mis” had an extensive pee plotline that was cut in early workshops.RR: What about “Phantom...
...most spontaneous mind of anyone I ever worked with. He is constantly funny and smart. Writing a Broadway musical was so fulfilling for him, he wanted to come back to that world, and I was ready to do it all over again with...
After the film version of The Producers musical fared so poorly at the box office, is it a relief to be back on Broadway...
Catching his breath during the opening number of a Broadway musical, Paulus Berensohn says that he heard a disembodied voice pose a question that was to change his life: “This is dancing on a stage, Paulus, but what does it mean to dance in life?” Two weeks later, he found the answer when he saw a woman throwing a pot. “I want to learn that dance,” he said to himself, and in that moment took up the craft of pottery. The metaphysical ties between clay, dance, and creation...