Word: morrision
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Is it just coincidence that the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings in the fall of 1991 roughly coincided with Bill Clinton's emergence on the national scene? In the years since Long Dong Silver became a household name--not to mention Paula Jones and Dick Morris--one thing has become...
There were problems onstage too, which became apparent when the show started preview performances in early December. Its story of Salvador Agron--a Puerto Rican teenager convicted of killing two white youths in a Hell's Kitchen playground in 1959--was confused and uninvolving; the staging lacked energy; and there...
But the real-world controversy has been overshadowed by the show's creative travails. Simon had near total control of the project from the start, and he assembled a team of collaborators who were mostly Broadway outsiders. As co-writer of the book and lyrics he enlisted Derek Walcott, the...
Finding a director, however, was the real stumper. Simon admits he and Walcott didn't want a strong "auteur" who would try to impose his own vision on the show. "We wanted to do it our way, and we wanted a director whose thinking was compatible with ours," Simon says...
While some colleagues found Simon open and willing to listen to suggestions, others complain that he was less than receptive to dissenting ideas. (Walcott was reportedly even more prickly about proposed changes in the book he and Simon had written.) "I guess if you really become insistent on being happy...