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My Library: An Interview with Ben West of UnsungMusicalsCo., Inc

by Jeremy Megraw, Photograph Librarian, Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library For the Performing Arts
April 20, 2011

In the heart of Lincoln Center, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, nestled between the Metropolitan Opera and the Vivian Beaumont Theatre, thrives in its role as a vibrant circuit between historical research and cutting-edge performance. And few researchers illustrate the Library's unique vitality for the performing arts community better than Ben West.

Ben West is a regular at LPA, where theatre professionals who shape the performing arts scene come for inspiration through their research in the LPA’s vast archives. Ben is the artistic director of UnsungMusicalsCo. Inc., and in that capacity he searches for lost musicals from Broadway’s golden age, 

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The Lost Musicals: Uncovering the Dorothy Loudon flops Part Two: Lolita, My Love

by Diana Bertolini, Manuscripts and Archives Division
January 12, 2011

After the disappointment of The Fig Leaves are Falling, Dorothy Loudon got a great part in a new musical with much more promise, but this one didn’t even make it to Broadway, despite being, without question, artistically superior.

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The Lost Musicals: Uncovering the Dorothy Loudon Flops Part One: The Fig Leaves are Falling

by Diana Bertolini, Manuscripts and Archives Division
December 10, 2010

What happens to a musical unrecorded? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Perhaps, but fortunately not forever in the case of two flop musicals from the late sixties/early seventies that tried to challenge American sexual mores, that also featured the sublime talents of one of the musical theatre’s incomparable divas, before she played Miss Hannighan in Annie and joined the ranks of the great musical stars.

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