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Thursday, February 09, 2017
Musical Theatre Craft and Influences: Liesl Tommy
THE INTERVAL: In 2014, a production of Les Mis at the Dallas Theatre Center was hailed as revolutionary, despite the fact that not a word of the libretto was changed. The production was conceived and directed by Liesl Tommy. Yet, for two years after that, Liesl directed a string of plays and didn’t direct another musical till Party People at the Public Theater in late 2016. We spoke to Liesl in early 2016 when she was directing Eclipsed, a show that would earn her a Tony nomination for Best Director of a Play, about her process and more.
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