Word: brustein
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...Brustein emphasizes that he had no choice, due to the demands of others, but to drop the script...
...There [was] a growing camp...not the camp of the ART, but that of the commercial theater,” and, as Brustein explains, “We wanted to get back to the purity of the original idea...
...whoever or whatever killed the project, once it became apparent that the production could not be mounted, it was up to Brustein to inform his old friend that his script would not premiere on an ART stage...
...This is one of the hardest letters I’ve ever had to write,” begins Brustein in what Gelbart has termed the “Dear Larry” letter in which the artistic director officially removed the writer from the project...
...just had miscalculated because I put together a playwright who is essentially a wordsmith...with a director who is essentially an auteur,” explains Brustein...