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An explosion of creativity
Diane Paulus sat perched on the back of a chair in a basement rehearsal space in Harvard Square on a recent afternoon, watching the scene play out before her like an entranced cat observing a mouse....
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Direct from Broadway
Harvard College students looking for a little Broadway inspiration don’t have to make the four-hour bus ride to Manhattan. Thanks to a popular program sponsored by Harvard’s Office for the Arts (OFA),...
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The making of a musical
“Knowing when to start the music is always one of my favorite jobs,” said Jason Robert Brown, striding to a Steinway piano in the corner of the Davison Room in the Loeb Music Library. The Tony...
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In 1944, Broadway subversion
When “On the Town” made its Broadway debut 70 years ago on Dec. 28, 1944, it was heralded as youthful and fresh — just what young composer Leonard Bernstein and show collaborators Betty Comden, Adolph...
View ArticleCorrecting ‘Hamilton’
Historian Annette Gordon-Reed would like to make clear that she likes “Hamilton,” the Broadway hip-hop musical phenomenon about Alexander Hamilton, which audiences and critics have adored and some...
View ArticleEven in ‘Hamilton,’ a glimpse of mediocrity
New research by Derek Miller, an assistant professor of English, spotlights Broadway productions “that are not outstanding either in their glory or their failure, but were born and died decidedly...
View ArticleWorking with Sondheim, ‘a warm, generous, open spirit’
The composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who transformed American musical theater in the 20th century, died Nov. 26 at the age of 91. The Gazette spoke with John Weidman ’68, who collaborated with...
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Harvard class examines representation in theater
It was in some ways revolutionary: a Broadway musical that would touch on themes of immigration, income inequality, racism, sexism, gang violence. But when “West Side Story” opened on Broadway in 1957,...
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