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"Our primary barrier is what I have been saying since I started this job at OSF, and had actually been saying it at the Denver Center too: This industry has relied so heavily on one generation of theatregoer. And that generation has been great to us; they have come to see our shows, they have given us their resources, they have put us in their will

Nineteen twenty-three was one of Broadway’s brightest years. John Barrymore played Hamlet just a few blocks away from where his sister Ethel was appearing in Romeo and Juliet. Elmer Rice’s The Adding Machine and Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author also opened. Most critics cited Galsworthy’s Loyalties as the best play of the season.

West Side Story’s true lost author was Peter Gennaro, who choreographed “America” and all of the Sharks’ steps in the “Dance at the Gym.” Jerome Robbins, apparently foreseeing how long the show’s art would prove, made Gennaro sign a contract including the line “You hereby assign to me any and all rights in, and to any and all choreographic material

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Rob Ashford pulled me aside after the closing night party at David Hyde Pierce’s house and he said, “You know, everyone is very happy with your work, I want you to continue with the show when it happens in New York as Dance Captain, but I want to give you the option of either being onstage or offstage. It’s your choice.” I was really grateful and f