Do we have the Beatles to thank -- or blame-- for John Doyle’s concept of having actors play instruments in musicals? The director actually thought of the convention in the early ‘90s when he was asked to find a musical he could stage at a theater in Liverpool – the city where the famous rock group got its start. “The theater did classical work, but the board wanted a musical,” he says. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM on September 14, 2011