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...chinos, basketball sneakers and a pink Lacoste shirt, Michael Schubert paces about the Hasty Pudding Club's cluttered office. "I think everyone in the world has one chance to do what they want to do," he says fervently. "Hal Prince has got to listen to me once, Stephen Sondheim will have to listen to me once...
Michael R. Schubert '82, Kirkland House resident, itinerant Philosophy major, daring of Harvard's musical theatre crowd, has been a big fish in small ponds for many years now. As the self-proclaimed "hot-shit composer" of Highland Park High in the Chicago suburbs, he co-wrote and wrote three original allows. Here, he has written five shows, including three consecutive Pudding shows (the all-time record) and, by his reckoning, more than 100 songs...
Nevertheless, the possibility of an empty larder in the big bad city has occurred to Schubert. Although the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers has shown some interest in him, and he has "a few contacts" at New York University, home of a prestigious composition program, Schubert knows that he will have to start very much from scratch. "There are people who are going to help me, but no one who'll produce a show for me," he says...
Although he has written lyrics before (most successfully, he says, in the show he wrote last year, "Leaders of Tomorrow"), Schubert knows that his strengths lie in musical areas rather than literary ones. "I'm a cocky kind of guy," he says with a smile. "I tend to think my ideas are better than anyone else's. But I know I'm not a lyricist." Unfortunately, he notes, the ideal partner/lyricist has eluded him at Harvard...
...Schubert's contacts in New York include his idol Stephen Sondheim, whom he met last year at a rehearsal of Harvard's production of "Side by Side by Sondheim." Sondheim encouraged him to continue writing at that time, Schubert says, adding that he hopes to show material to the older composer for criticism and advice. "He's very helpful about that sort of thing, "Schubert says. "Not that many people are willing to take the time to listen to people--that's partially why there's a dearth of good musical theater on Broadway right...