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Playwright adapts the story of a controversial
operetta into a new play.
nervous after the first preview, suddenly
suspending
all new WPA activities to
Special to the Jewish News
"facilitate budget cuts."
Knowing they would be faced by
ookstore browsing led to
federal troops barring the show, cast
the next play to be staged at
and crew arranged to present a limited
the Performance Network
version at another theater and
in Ann Arbor.
marched a waiting audience to the
Jason Sherman, an award-winning
new space.
Canadian playwright,
"I liked the idea that
just happened to come
Welles
was writing
across Orson Welles'
about
himself
with a
book about directing the
mixture
of
bravado
and
The
Cradle
1937 operetta
sorrow, and I liked that
Will Rock, and decided to
there are all sorts of
tell the story surrounding
ideas, people and ques-
that production.
tions surrounding this
(Actor/director Tim
Jewish
composer
Marc
event," Sherman, 39,
Robbins based his 1999
Blitzstein
during
an
early
says.
movie The Cradle Will
performance of "Cradle
"It goes to very fun-
Rock on those same
Will
Rock."
damental
questions
events.)
about the role of the
Sherman's It All True,
artist in society and the limits facing an
which runs Oct. 18-Nov. 18, dramatizes
artist as a critical member of society. It
the work of Welles, producer John
also deals with the notion of being
Houseman and composer Marc
courageous in difficult times. I think
Blitzstein. Although their musical about
it's all still very relevant."
forming labor unions had been spon-
Sherman says delving into The Cradle
sored by the Federal Theatre Project of
Will Rock also appealed to him because
the Works Progress Administration to
the themes had to do with ideas he had
promote stage work during difficult
been thinking about at the time.
economic times, the agency became
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