Beat(nik) in St. Louis.(Trends & Events)(The Nervous Set)(Brief Article)
American Theatre, March, 2004
St. Louis, Mo.: If someone asks you to meet them in St. Louis this month, you might want to arrange a rendezvous at New Line Theatre, which has delved into the dusty corners of performing-arts history to revive the little-known musical-a-clef The Nervous Set. A hit in St. Louis when it was staged in 1959--but a flop when producer Robert Lantz transferred a tampered-with (and sunnier) version to Broadway later that year--the piece is closely based on St.
Louis writer Jay Landesman's autobiographical novel about the goings-on of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and other members of the ...
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