Word: goodman
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...sure enough, now it is one, opening last week off-Broadway with a contradictory set of expectations. On the one hand, it's a rare case of a musical with lots of hype potential that has emerged fully formed--book, lyrics and music by newcomer Paul Scott Goodman--with almost no advance publicity. On the other hand, the musical is burdened, rather unfairly, by comparisons with a very different show, Rent, simply because it originates in the same downtown theater (and with the same director) as that trend-setting hit. Can theatrical lightning strike twice...
...hopes ride largely on Goodman, a Scottish-born singer-composer who was writing and performing one-man shows before he reread McInerney's book three years ago and decided it would be good material for a full-scale musical. "The book was set right when I came to New York City," says Goodman. "I could relate to the fact that [the main character] was a writer. I thought I could write from an honest place." His first draft sparked the interest of the New York Theatre Workshop and director Michael Greif, who developed the show over the past two years...
Boston Globe columnist Ellen H. Goodman '63 and novelist Pat O'Brien will serve as Radcliffe's first ever writers in-residence this semester, Radcliffe announced yesterday...
...Goodman and O'Brien will spend the semester collaborating on a book about women's friendships...
...Goodman said the book will draw on the two women's personal friendship, which began 25 years ago when O'Brien and Goodman were Neiman fellows at Harvard...