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Article: The road to Broadway runs through ... Issaquah? Village Theatre hosts Festival of New Musicals.(Theater)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- August 15, 2009
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ISSAQUAH -- Sometimes it takes a Village to create musical theater.
Just ask Stephen A. Weiner, who wrote his first musical at age 6 and who more recently put the Coen brothers' quirky film "The Hudsucker Proxy" to music and expects to take it to Broadway next year.
Weiner lives only a hundred miles from the Great White Way, but he has spent the past week a continent removed -- essentially at ground zero for the nurturing and development of musical theater in America.
Issaquah's Village Theatre is one of the very few places where people who relish song and dance and a good story can see their ideas come to life. Its ninth Festival of New ...