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
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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