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The Success Story of a Nation

When does an author let go? In the case of musicals, ain’t never gonna happen. Something in the universe demands it, like atomic bonding, or gravity itself. Lousy or fine, grand or not, you and your […]

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Memory as Entertainment

“How fast can you write a show?” he bluntly asked after shaking my hand. “When do you need it?” Lee and I joked in chorus without thinking. But it was a serious question that came […]

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Why Not Abe?

In late 2007, with the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial approaching, we were offered a commission by Muddy River Opera (Land of Lincoln) to complete a serious musical based on the adult years of Lincoln before his […]

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Returning to Quality Street

We originally wrote Quality Street back in the 1980s. It was our third musical in two years. While waiting for Shine and Chaplin to somehow emerge from their cruel Broadway postponements, it was a breezy joy […]

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Flying Tigers

Every author of a musical has a project (at least one) that never finds life beyond the heart or mind’s eye. I have many. But the one that was most peculiar, now feeling more like […]

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30 Years in 17 Minutes

In September of 2002, a unique and knowing play premiered at The Bank Street Theatre. Structured in three acts, it follows the lives of two boys who meet in New York City on the night […]