show is full of Jersey jokes. If
anyone is going to like it it’s going to be them. I know these
people; I lived there for many
years; this is their cup of tea.
Then David Saint read it and
we did a reading and he immediately said he wanted to
produce this in the next season.
So that began my relationship
with George Street Playhouse.
David Saint and I have become
collaborators and friends. And
I think just because I grew up
here and went to college in New
Brunswick, these are my people.
When I write, I speak to them.
How did you and David Bryan
first start working together? I
know you’re about the same
age; you didn’t meet at Rutgers did you? No, we are the
same age and we went to Rutgers at the same time, but he
only went for maybe a half a
year and then went on to Juilliard. He was pre-med at Rutgers, but was always a piano
prodigy too.
I had written the first draft of
Memphis and it was about the
birth of rock and roll. I knew
some great theatre composers,
but I thought I would love a real
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