Chicago: don't be a zero.(FRONT & CENTER)(Brief article)
American Theatre, February, 2007 by Johnson, Cassandra
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THE WORLD IS CONSUMED BY PROGRESS, PROFIT AND UTILITY. Even heaven is a factory that recycles souls to save space.
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Jason Loewith, artistic director of Next Theatre Company in Chicago, comes from a long line of accountants--and he's had Elmer Rice's 1923 play The Adding Machine on his mind for years. Now, along with co-librettist and composer Joshua Schmidt, he has transformed Rice's three-hour opus into a 90-minute musical. The beleaguered protagonist is Zero, a human calculator who murders his boss after getting fired on his 25th anniversary, and ...
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