Decades before he took on the chairmanship of the National Endowment for the Arts, Broadway producer Rocco Landesman approached his friend Robert Brustein about doing a musical at Brustein's artistic home, the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge. Brustein liked the idea, and the show, "Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," opened there in 1984. It would go on to run for more than 1,000 performances on B…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:22AM on October 15, 2012