Word: musee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Erich W. Segal '58, Teaching Fellow in general Education, has recently returned from New York where his off-Broadway musical comedy "Sing Muse," received mixed reviews and is readying plans for a full-scale Broadway production...
Segal, who collaborated with Joseph I. Raposo '58 on the 1958 Hasty Pudding show, was again Raposo's partner a writing "Sing Muse," which played for five weeks at the Van Dam Theater...
...predecessor to "Sing Muse" was a musical revue "Voulez-Vous," which played at the Pi Eta Theater in Cambridge in 1960. Despite its short run, "Sing Muse" has brought Segal several offers from Broadway producers for his next play, a musical comedy. After completing work next winter on doctoral thesis, "Theories of Comedy the Renaissance," Segal plans to devote himself to another production...
There are two shows, however, which avoid off-Broadway's avant-grade rut and substitute real theatricality: Sean O'Casey's Red Roses for Me, at the Greenwich Mews, and last year's Leverett House musical, Sing Muse, by Erich Segal and Joseph Raposo. The O'Casey ranks with the Broadway production of six years ago, which was prematurely ousted from the theater when a lease expired. It is a thrilling and beautiful play, to my mind one of the few masterpieces of this century...
...Sing Muse at the Van Dam Theater not only offers students a chance to compare an undergraduate with a professional production, but has grown into an even more entertaining show...