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John Weidman
Bookwriter John Weidman talks about creating a new book in the 1980s with Timothy Crouse for the 1930s musical Anything Goes, now playing in revival at Roundabout Theatre Company in New York, and how their version of the oft-revised musical became the now-standard script. He also talks about growing up as the son of novelist and sometime Broadway librettist Jerome Weidman; his academic career at Harvard and then Yale Law School (though he's never practiced law); his part in the creation of the highly influential National Lampoon magazine in the 70s; how his law school-era fascination with the opening of Japan to the West ultimately became his first Broadway musical, Pacific Overtures; the true origins of his second collaboration with Stephen Sondheim, Assassins; why he was dissatisfied with his work on the musical version of Big; how one writes a dance musical that is largely told without words, namely Contact; and whether the long-aborning Road Show (aka Bounce aka Wise Guys) is finished, or if further changes will be seen at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London this summer.
Original air date - June 1, 2011
Running Time - 55:07
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