How Do You Make a Dance Play? - Writer David Thompson on how he helped build 'The Beast in the Jungle'

Writer David Thompson on how he helped build The Beast in the Jungle---When Tony-winning director-choreographer Susan Stroman said that the protagonist of The Beast in the Jungle was "waltzing through life," everything clicked. Stroman, Tony-winning composer John Kander and Tony-nominated book writer David Thompson had been talking about adapting Henry James' 1903 novella for the stage, but they weren't quite sure ho…

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