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In the literature8 passages
- Like most other musicals, Cry for Us All is based on a proven success-in this case, the fragile tragedy Hogan's Goat by William Alfred, which opened in November 1965, ran for 607 performances off Broadway, and won the Vernon Rice Award for the best play of 196566. I Hogan's Goat is all but forgotten, remembered chiefly as the play that ca…ebooks/Suskin, Steven/B001T4YWBO EBOK - Steven Suskin.txt
- On Friday, the situation doesn't look great, but it looks good enough, and it occurs to William Alfred, the playwright, who happens to have a broken leg, that if he hobbles onstage on crutches, he might have a chance at winning the sympathy of a skeptical audience. But it seems a touch too obvious, so at the last minute an assistant stage…ebooks/Suskin, Steven/B001T4YWBO EBOK - Steven Suskin.txt
- "I'm amazed," William Alfred whispers, his eyes opening wide. "1 thought we were in a very sorry state."ebooks/Suskin, Steven/B001T4YWBO EBOK - Steven Suskin.txt
- William Alfred and Hogan's Goat have gone through a meat-grinder. Alfred is a soft-spoken man, who smiles-when he smiles-a bit fearfully. He creeps about the theatre during rehearsals, his tall body slightly bent under a somber wool scarf he wears around his shoulders, and he looks as if he's afraid of being in the way as he searches for…ebooks/Suskin, Steven/B001T4YWBO EBOK - Steven Suskin.txt
- A few days later, Mitch Leigh and William Alfred appear on Norton's television show on WGBH to discuss their play and his review. The guests put the host on the defensive. "I got him in such a way that he was grabbing his necktie," Leigh recalls. "He asked me questions, and I answered them for him. He said, 'What can we do to help the the…ebooks/Suskin, Steven/B001T4YWBO EBOK - Steven Suskin.txt
- It grows worse. William Alfred gets sick enough to be carried out of his house into an ambulance. He stays in the hospital for a day and a half with the flu.ebooks/Suskin, Steven/B001T4YWBO EBOK - Steven Suskin.txt
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