631. Will "3 Summers of Lincoln" Make It to Broadway?

631. 《林肯的三个夏天》能否登上百老汇舞台?

Freakonomics Radio

社会与文化

2025-04-25

46 分钟
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It’s been in development for five years and has at least a year to go. On the eve of its out-of-town debut, the actor playing Lincoln quit. And the producers still need to raise another $15 million to bring the show to New York. There really is no business like show business. (Part three of a three-part series.)
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  • In the first episode of this series,

  • we heard about the creation of a new musical called Three Summers of Lincoln, as in Abraham Lincoln.

  • The show is set during the Civil War and it centers around Lincoln's relationship with the abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

  • The producers Alan Shore and Richard Winkler commissioned the playwright Joe DiPietro to write the script.

  • He brought along Daniel Watts as his co-lyricist and then the composer Crystal Monet Hall.

  • After three years of development.

  • The Lincoln team held some workshop performances in New York that persuaded them they were ready to give the show its world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego.

  • Or at least almost ready.

  • I just felt the narrative at the beginning wasn't as sharp as the rest of the show.

  • That's DiPietro.

  • The challenge in a musical like this is you're telling an epic story.

  • I mean, how many different versions of the Civil War could you write?

  • There needs to be a spine to it.