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Seance on A Wet Afternoon Opera – Deception Theme

March 29, 2011 Article

The Art of Deception: Mrya in Stephen Schwartz’s Seance on A Wet Afternoon, Frollo in the Hunchback of Notre Dame, the Wizard of Oz in Wicked and Bernie Madoff in real life. I originally wrote these reflections about the deception theme in Schwartz’s opera “Seance on a Wet Afternoon” in the summer of 2009 before [...]

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Welcome

March 21, 2011 Article

Welcome to the world of Broadway and film songwriter Stephen Schwartz – at least from my perspective. I started this blog while I was interviewing Stephen and his colleagues for my Schwartz biography,  Defying Gravity. On a few occasions I set aside time from our book interviews to catch Stephen’s comments for the public. Using [...]

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