The American musical does not lend itself well to big ideas, particularly if they possess any degree of complexity. Keep the ideas as simple and melodramatic as the plots that drive them. In Signature Theatre’s Elmer Gantry: the Musical, based on Sinclair Lewis’s 1927 novel Elmer Gantry and adapted from the 1960 film version, the […] The post Spine: Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry, and Elmer Gantry the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:15AM on October 17, 2014