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...musical theater. Inspired by Gidget, the novel about a 14-year-old girl who wants to surf, Coppola co-wrote the book for a musical and 12 original songs. Then he approached the Orange County High School for the Performing Arts in Cerritos, Calif., with a plan to workshop his play using teen performers. "I was a drama counselor in summer camp when I was young," says Coppola. "I like to work with kids." For four weeks he lived in the motel across the street from the school while working on the material, and last weekend Gidget closed a four...
When the room opened in 1939 with Jack Sweeney at the helm, it quickly became a center of literary life in Cambridge. Regular literary salons-- part poetry reading, part workshop--were held for an elite circle invited to the third-floor room in Widener. The collection moved to the room's present quarters in Lamont Library in the '50's, but the wooden sign saying "Poetry Room" remains on the door of the old Widener quarters to this...
...working more and enjoying it less. Between 1995 and 1999, the number of people calling in sick because of stress more than tripled. "I've got a lot of clients coming to me from Silicon Valley," says Pam Ammondson, 45, who runs Clarity Quest, a Santa Rosa, Calif., workshop to counsel jangled burnout victims. "It's a dream to make a million dollars overnight. But these people are not happy, their relationships are miserable, and they're taking a step back to ask what it's all about...
Harvard Fiction Workshop...
...Harvard Fiction Workshop (HFW), for instance, has the same goals as Harvard's creative writing classes, but seeks to address the limited number of spaces available in those classes...