At The New York Times, Patrick Healey describes how Greg Pierce (“Later That Night,” NER 32.2) is working with Broadway legend John Kander:

With a schoolboy’s enthusiasm — indeed, looking a bit like Harry Potter all grown up — the writer Greg Pierce flipped through the three-ring binder on his lap, his forehead crinkling as he searched for the morning’s to-do list. He was sitting in the Upper West Side studio of John Kander, the Tony Award-winning composer of “Cabaret,” “Chicago” and more than 15 other musicals…

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