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...there may be more to come. Sondheim's "nibbling" at a couple of new shows with his two longtime collaborators, John Weidman and James Lapine, and is writing an annotated retrospective of his lyrics. But breaking fresh ground can be hard going, says Sondheim, whose latest work, Road Show - based on the lives of huckster brothers behind Florida's ill-fated 1920s real-estate boom - was more than a decade in the making. "You think every time you pick up your pencil it's going to be a little bit easier, but it isn't," he says...
Well, [co-writer John Weidman] and I let it marinate for a year, and we're going back to what we originally wrote. What we wrote was something very swift, and very Hope-Crosbyish about America and about a period of American enterprise, and that got lost in the subsequent productions of the show...
Building on that success, CityStep Executive Director Laura E. Weidman ’04 sent in an application this year to the Pforzheimer Fellowship program proposing to start a CityStep clone at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn). The proposal went through. After she graduates, Weidman will move to Philadelphia and begin laying the groundwork for UPenn’s CityStep...
...main thing is teamwork,” Weidman says. And the team mentality extends outside their teaching duties. In between its two matinees Saturday, the entire CityStep company—six classrooms worth of Cambridge Students and all of the Harvard CitySteppers—let loose on the fields behind the school, eating cake, playing basketball, tossing footballs and just generally hanging...
...dining hall, chanting that notoriously nagging cheer and stomping their bright red shoes. And when the troupe members talk about their largest commitment, they like to emphasize it offers a special kind of niche. “CityStep is unique in a lot of ways,” says Weidman, “but a big one is the amount of cohesion and community felt among company members...