Word: musee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week ago the New York Journal-American blared forth in a banner headline: OFF BROADWAY GOES HARVARD. A couple of days earlier, a small box on The New York Times' theatre page had announced that "'Sing Muse', a musical that offers 'a new slant' on Helen and other matters leading up to the Trojan War, will open off Broadway in the first week of December...
...Sing Muse" was born in a Hum 2 classroom last year. In the spring, on a Leverett House commission, section man Erich Segal '58 teamed with composer Joseph Raposo '58 and turned his fascination for the mock-heroic into the theme of a musical comedy...
...Sing Muse" becomes the second Harvard play to receive a New York contract within the last two years. "Oh, Dad..!", by Arthur Kopit '59, will be presented next spring...
Majestic Darkness. Most of his poems are personal-neither jeweled cenotaph nor mantic dispatches from a muse, but gifts of self. One reflects, while reading them (dropping a mental footnote to the chalkier conundrums of Pound and Eliot), how lightly the weight of their author's erudition bears down. Graves can write with warm wit, in Friday Night, of a meeting between Jove and Love...
Early this spring, Segal became interested in the idea of writing an expose of The illad. As little as a month and a half ago, however, a Cambridge production of Sing Muse still seemed unlikely. By a series of misunderstandings, Raposo had been led to believe first that the Loeb Drama Center wanted a musical for the experimental theatre, and then that the Leverett House Drama Society wanted only a short place to fill a double bill...