Craig Lucas

On stage 4 productions, 4 years

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Worked with more than once4 names

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Also credited on3 works

An American in Paris
Paradise Square
The Light in the Piazza

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature8 passages

• Vancouver also has a new company dedicated to treating musical theatre as an art form. Patrick Street Productions presented Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas’ The Light in the Piazza in September 2011, winning the Jessie Richardson award for outstanding production. “We have a huge creative community in the theatre, and they all go ‘I want to d…ebooks/Atkey, Mel/Million Miles from Broadway_ Musical Theatre Beyond New York and London, A - Mel Atkey.txt
• Studio cast (1985): A Collector’s Sondheim . Craig Lucas, Suzanne Henry, E. Martin Perry (conductor). Contents (dropped songs only): “All Things Bright and Beautiful,” “Uptown, Downtown,” “Who Could Be Blue?,” “Little White House,” “It Wasn’t Meant to Happen,” and “Can That Boy Fox-trot!” RCA CRL4–5359. With the exception of “Can That Boy…ebooks/Block, Geoffrey/Enchanted Evenings_The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber - Geoffrey Block.txt
• In the novel and film on which Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel’s musical was based, Margaret never let the girl out of her sight unless someone else was chaperoning. So why did director Bartlett Sher start the show by having Margaret walk alone onto the vast Vivian Beaumont stage? In fact, Lucas’s published script specified that they walk on…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
• IN 1979 CRAIG LUCAS , the future playwright, was in the chorus of Sweeney Todd . Lucas said, “I had seen Company, Follies , and A Little Night Music while I was at Boston University because I was a musical comedy aficionado. I happened to have a big, bright, untrained voice, so I was singing, acting, and doing creative writing while I was…ebooks/Secrest, Meryle/Stephen Sondheim - Meryle Secrest.txt
• It was fun for me to just try something like that, and also musically challenging. But I had already signed on for The Light in the Piazza in Seattle, so I said, “I can only do it for eleven weeks.” It was kind of a similar thing to the Paige O’Hara thing. They’re like, “why are you leaving a Broadway show?” No one had heard of [director]…ebooks/Shapiro, Eddie/Nothing Like a Dame_ Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater - Eddie Shapiro.txt
• I think I was waiting for another The Light in the Piazza . But that clearly wasn’t going to be coming. Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas created a masterpiece. Period. Do I think I will have another opportunity to create a role in a groundbreaking show like that? Yes! In the meantime, I realized that there were projects I was being offered th…ebooks/Shapiro, Eddie/Nothing Like a Dame_ Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater - Eddie Shapiro.txt

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