The Musical Theater Factory Blog
Official blog of The 5th Avenue Theatre
How did the concept for this musical and this exceptional collaboration of Broadway visionaries come about? I’d seen Degas’s famous sculpture many times in various museums, and I always paused to admire it. But I happened to visit the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA one summer, and for the first time I started to
By Lynn Ahrens Many people are familiar with Edgar Degas’s ground-breaking sculpture, La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans. There’s the original wax figure at Washington’s National Gallery, as well as a number of finely-wrought bronze castings at other art institutions around the world. This unique masterpiece has been copied, analyzed, critiqued, and even X-rayed. But
