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Posted: 8/5/10 at 3:13pm
Tootling around the Wikipedia, I looked at Michael Bennett's entry and was surprised to find this bit:
"In 1985, Bennett abandoned the nearly-completed musical Scandal, by writer Treva Silverman and songwriter Jimmy Webb, which had been developing for nearly five years through a series of workshop productions. The show was sexually daring, and apparently Bennett's best work, but the conservative climate and the growing AIDS panic made it unlikely commercial material."
ANY odd chance someone here saw the workshops? (paging PJ!) Anything in the Bennett bio's that shed some light on this show? Very curious here.
"In 1985, Bennett abandoned the nearly-completed musical Scandal, by writer Treva Silverman and songwriter Jimmy Webb, which had been developing for nearly five years through a series of workshop productions. The show was sexually daring, and apparently Bennett's best work, but the conservative climate and the growing AIDS panic made it unlikely commercial material."
ANY odd chance someone here saw the workshops? (paging PJ!) Anything in the Bennett bio's that shed some light on this show? Very curious here.
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