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...musical comedy, with music by Jimmy Roberts and book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro, is off-Broadway's current longest-running musical, second only to “The Fantasticks” for longest-running of all time. Premiered in 1996 with the tagline “Everything you have ever secretly thought about dating, romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit,” the play presents a series of vignettes on the ever-elusive subject of love. The scenes follow the same general progression as most relationships, from jittery first-dates...

Author: By Giselle Barcia, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'I Love You, You're Perfect,' Don't Change! | 8/7/2007 | See Source »

...they once did in New York City. He grew up there, attending expensive U.S. schools and working off-Broadway. He went to Dublin at 21 to start a theater group and ended up running the respected Abbey Theatre's second stage. In 1988, Kennedy and his wife moved to London, where he cranked out four travel books and a novel, The Dead Heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Famous American Writer You Never Heard Of | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

...they once did in New York City. He grew up there (his father was a commodities broker; his mother worked at NBC), attending expensive U.S. schools and working in off-Broadway theaters. He went to Dublin at age 21 to start a cooperative theater group and ended up running the respected Abbey Theatre's second stage. He also wrote a few plays and a column for the Irish Times. In 1988, Kennedy and his wife moved to London, where he cranked out four travel books and a novel, The Dead Heart, about a burned-out U.S. journalist who flees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost in America | 7/3/2007 | See Source »

...Harvey Schmidt’s “The Fantasticks,” is largely a paint-by-numbers show. Directors Laura S. Hirschberg ’09 and Sean P. Bala ’09 chose to stage the play as it has usually been performed since its off-Broadway opening in 1960, striving for the same wistful tone and minimal set that straddle the boundary between the homemade and the “fantastical.” The show, which was produced by Rory M. Sullivan ’09, tells the story of two neighbors who feign...

Author: By Daniel B. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: ‘Fantasticks’ Keeps Light, Fun Tone of Original Classic | 5/13/2007 | See Source »

...additional component of the program is an on-campus musical, performed by undergraduates, that raises money for the program and also offers the children a chance to learn from the experience of Harvard’s actors. STAGE’s on-campus musical this year is the off-Broadway classic “The Fantasticks,” and actors were chosen through the semesterly Common Casting process. “Proceeds from that show benefit the kids program,” says Lawton. “Students who are cast in that show make a commitment to spend...

Author: By Michelle L Cronin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Doin’ It For the Kids | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

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