Laurence Maslon

Laurence Maslon is the editor of American Musicals (published by Library of America), an arts professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and the host of the radio program Broadway to Main Street.

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Between the Lines

When Broadway Musicals Were Subversive

The most intriguing subplot in the original book for Finian’s Rainbow concerns a racist Southern senator who is “too busy defendin’ the Constitution” to read it.

Laurence Maslon