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'Nevermore': The Poignant Song of The Raven; Edgar Allan Poe's Life Is Set to a Haunting Score
From: The Washington Post
Date: 20060118
Author:Peter Marks
You might not envision Edgar Allan Poe's painstaking masterwork "The Raven" as boffo material for a contemporary show tune. Well, envision again.
Set to a driving melody by an unsung composer, the poem lends a fever-dream urgency to "Nevermore," Signature Theatre's entrancing new musical based on Poe's life and literary output.
Signature Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer took a chance on Matt Conner, a 36-year-old actor-composer with a modest resume and an ambitious idea about how to make Poe's rhymes sing. The gambit largely pays off. Poe's work has been used as a source of musical ...
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