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Joseph C. Gfaller ’01, one of Crawford’s blockmates at Harvard, said that despite not keeping in touch with Crawford since college, he was deeply saddened by her death...
...incredibly driven and dedicated person," Gfaller said. “She had an incredible love for classics and for linguistics and languages, and she set the bar extremely high for herself with everything she did and always achieved at a remarkable level...
...really capable communicator, so I can imagine she was a great teacher," Gfaller said. "It's a terrible loss, and she was certainly primed to make a significant impact in her field. I can imagine she may have already made one, knowing the kind of work she did as an undergraduate...
Determined to see the book performed, he took on the stage adaptation. He had written five plays and taken some composition courses, but a full-fledged stage musical was a much bigger production. The hefty book had to be whittled down, so Gfaller cut subplots, conflated characters and streamlined the story so it could be told in two hours and 40 minutes. Throughout, his goal was to stay true to the author. “I tried to retain as much of Dickens’ language as possible,” he says. For the musical aspect of the project...
...real culmination of the thesis was not on the due date, but rather last May, when Gfaller staged a reading of the musical at Agassiz Theater. Now, as the marketing director of the Seven Stages Theater in Atlanta, he’s getting the chance to have part of the show performed again, an event he hopes will help his playwriting career. Gfaller already has another literary classic lined up for his next project: William Faulkner’s Absalom! Absalom...