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Article: Richard Greenberg: now he's pals with Joey. (People)
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- American Theatre
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- January 1, 1993
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I don't think there can be any doubt that 'Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered' is a post-coital number," says Richard Greenberg of the most famous song in Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey. "So we've put it in bed. Why not?"
The 34-year-old Greenberg, chronicler of upscale urbanite angst in plays like Eastern Standard and The American Plan, seems an unlikely adapter of John O'Hara's book about a two-timing, fast-talking singer. But his reworked story for the Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart show, commissioned by the Jujamcyn Organization, drew critical acclaim when it was presented by Boston's Huntington Theatre in September.
It hasn't always been so. Since its Christmas ...