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The Playwright Who Never Saw Broadway: Larry Shue's Final Flight
The Playwright Who Never Saw Broadway: Larry Shue's Final Flight
Fear of a life just about to arrive - a playwright days from his Broadway debut boarded a routine Beech 99 commuter flight on September 23, 1985, and never reached home; what was lost were two soon-to-be-famous plays, a Disney screenplay, and twenty-seven years of private diaries - how did a common regional flight end an extraordinary career?
In this episode, we tell the story of Larry Shue’s final journey and the works he left behind, tracing his rise from Illinois Wesleyan to Milwaukee repertory success and the abrupt end on a…
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