Got a nice e-mail from Dan Langan, who’d read my recent piece on the history of telephones in the theater. He was intrigued by my question, “Who was the first playwright to make use of this new-fangled invention and said, ‘Oh, wow, this is going to make exposition a lot easier!’" Alas, Langan couldn’t answer that, but noted that “the first telephone song in a Broadway show wou…
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 04:23PM on November 22, 2011