Word: musicale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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By every billing it was the musical that could not miss. At the top of the credit lines for 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue were two of the arts' most potent names: Lyricist Alan Jay Lerner of My Fair Lady and Camelot fame and West Side Story Composer Leonard Bernstein. The...
In retrospect, most of its principals seem to agree, 1600 was probably doomed as early as 1972. That was when Lerner, depressed by the Nixon landslide, decided to write a musical comedy about "the first 100 years of the White House and other attempts to take it away from us...
Eternal Optimist. By the time 1600 reached its next road stop, Washington, Producers Roger L. Stevens and Robert Whitehead signed a new director-choreographer team: Gilbert Moses, 33, and George Faison, 30, both black activists who had worked together on the hit black musical The Wiz.
Although the coming disaster was clear to all, it still astonishes the survivors. Says Ramin: "We would attend these meetings with Lenny and Lerner in the same room. It was marvelous to see these minds meet, so brilliant. We'd leave thinking that everything was fabulous." There were many...
The book might have been less ponderous, Moses believes, had not both Lerner and Bernstein been involved. Says he: "It was like two great men meeting who decided to make a very important statement that had been on their minds about this country. Maybe if they had been younger [both...