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Listen: Broadway Has Always Been Edgy

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By Gordon Cox Theater Editor Think classic musicals are all corny frivolities? Writer Emily Neuberger wants you to think again — and with her new novel “A Tender Thing,” she sets out to remind readers of just how edgy Broadway musicals have always been. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: “The musicals of the [Golden Age of Broadway] — like the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, especially, but also ‘West Side Story’ and Lerner and Loewe — they have this reputation of being these very family-oriented, saccharine pieces of art,” Neuberger said on “Stagecraft,” Variety‘s theater podcast. “I think that’s a misconception made by the film version of those musicals.

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