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Genie, a wholly original musical written and directed by James W. Lawler ’04-’05 and Benjamin D. Scheuer ’04-’05, brings its fantastic tale of college life to the stage for the first time starting Wednesday...
While musicals are commonly performed around campus, rarely are they as fully homegrown. While Lawler had the idea to write a musical in fall 2003, the script was put on the back-burner when Lawler took a year off to train for the Olympic Trials as a swimmer. “I came back with about 60 pages of script and sent out an email on Cabot Open saying that I was looking for a composer.” That email turned up the composer Scheuer, already a veteran of three similar endeavors...
...wrote the music and we collaborated on the lyrics,” says Lawler, who makes his directorial debut with the play. Surprisingly, theater has not been Lawler’s primary preoccupation at Harvard: his previous writing experience had come mostly from feature-length screenplays...
Despite both being super seniors, hailing from the same House, and originally living 15 minutes from each other, Lawler and Scheuer had never met before working together on the play. Yet even with, or perhaps because of, their lack of previous contact, they complemented each other perfectly. According to Lawler, “the writing went really smoothly. We work really well together.” The co-writers were aided and guided by a shared philosophy; “The concept was just to create something people would have a great time...
...Lawler confessed that the scale of the production is larger than he had originally envisioned. “The plan was to workshop it when we got back [to Harvard], but it turned into something more elaborate...