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...According to Johnson, the musical is about a boy who tries to escape his unpleasant family by selling a precious heirloom at the Antiques Roadshow. “It’s accessible to the entire community,” says Nicholas N. Commins ’09, the lyricist and composer. “We tried to make this play accessible to everybody who has ever watched public television.” But the show has raised a few eyebrows. “It initially seemed very bizarre—why would you do a musical about this bizarre...
...kind and that was an incentive for me to come here. [The musical] sort of stayed in the back of my head because it was Harvard and I didn’t think I would get in.” Now, two years later, Nick is the composer and lyricist for the Freshman Musical, “On the Heir.” No stranger to the world of theater, Commins acted in nearly 22 musicals while in high school. “I did a musical every semester. I was always acting,” he says. A native...
DIED. BRUCE HART, 68, original lyricist for PBS's Sesame Street who co-wrote the sweetly optimistic theme song to the Emmy Award--winning children's show ("Can you tell me how to get/ How to get to Sesame Street?"); of lung cancer; in New York City...
...DIED. BRUCE HART, 68, original lyricist for PBS' Sesame Street who co-wrote the sweetly optimistic theme song to the Emmy Award-winning children's show ("Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?"); in New York City...
...remind themselves that the Brits routinely mistake mediocrity for greatness. Here's the thing, though: this time there's no mistake. Whatever People Say I Am, due out in the U.S. on Feb. 21, isn't perfect, but it's a great rock album that spotlights a new lyricist who is whip smart, funny and appealingly dangerous. He does a lot to restore faith in rock's future...