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Pop Music and the New Musical (Working In The Theatre #335)

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Channel: American Theatre Wing · 2013 · Entertainment

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Artists with their feet in both pop music and musical theatre—Stephen Bray and Allee Willis ("The Color Purple"), Rupert Holmes ("The Mystery of Edwin Drood"), Lucy Simon ("The Secret Garden') and David Yazbek ("The Full Monty")—talk about the parallels and intersections of those two worlds.

Originally taped - September, 2005

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