My fair lyricist

Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen

PRX

Arts

4.6 • 675 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Kurt-ain call — a show about what goes into making great theater. First, a look at Alan Jay Lerner on the centennial of his birth. The lyricist for “My Fair Lady,” “Gigi” and “Camelot” was as complicated as he was talented. Then Jack Viertel, the theater impresario, gives Kurt a master class on all the elements of successful musical theater that audiences will recognize but may not have had a name for — like the “I want” song. Finally, Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer-winning play “Sweat” about factory workers reeling from layoffs won over New York audiences. So how’d it go over when its New York cast toured the production in the Rust Belt?

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0:00.0	from PRX
0:03.4	This is Studio 360.
0:10.0	I'm Kurt Aniston, and I'm sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
0:13.0	This first level of garden.
0:14.4	This is Thomas Jefferson's vegetable garden.
0:16.3	I like to have the roasted chicken piece.
0:17.9	Very well done.
0:19.1	Editing is all about timing.
0:20.8	I try to get a little bit away from the actual subject.
0:23.4	You must get sick of your own voice, right?
0:25.7	Studio 360.
0:27.8	It's good. Anderson.
0:42.5	Today on Studio 360, we are talking about live theater.
0:47.1	Every so often, a Broadway musical appears that's more than just a hit.
0:49.2	It becomes a cultural phenomenon.
0:51.3	Think of South Pacific. Some enchanted evening.
0:57.2	Or a chorus line.
0:57.8	One.
1:00.6	Singular citation.
1:03.4	Every little step she takes.
1:06.1	Or what's it called Hamilton. I am not thrown away my shot.
1:09.0	I am not thrown away my shot. Well, that is what my shot. I am not thrown away my shot. And you're just like my country.
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