Paul Simon A conversation about Broadway's "The Capeman"

with Mark Morris, Paul Simon and Derek Walcott
in Movies, TV & Theater
on Friday, January 2, 1998

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A panel discussion with singer/songwriter Paul Simon, Nobel Prize-winner for poetry Derek Walcott and choreographer Mark Morris about their collaboration on the Broadway musical "The Capeman". The show is set in New York and follows the true story of a 16-year-old boy who killed two other teens in 1959

Paul Simon, one of America's most respected singer/songwriters, Nobel winner for poetry Derek Walcott and Mark Morris, one of the modern dance world's most renowned choreographers, have joined together for the Broadway musical, The Capeman. The show is set in New York and is based on the true story of a 16-year-old boy who killed two other teens in 1959. Simon, Walcott and Morris discuss their work on this unusual new production. Then, a conversation about Anne Frank, a revised stage adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank, with director James Lapine, adapter Wendy Kesselman and stars Linda Lavin and Natalie Portman.