Today's broadway trivia question comes from Roger Dennis, Dean of Drexel Law School. He will be moderating the answers and I hope the readers find this one more challenging than my recent questions.
Here it is...
"What broadway musical was co-written by a law student and has interesting intellectual property issues imbedded in the show?"
Take it away, Roger!
I'm stumped on this question. But I do know that Oscar Hammerstein II attended (but did not finish) law school at Columbia.
Posted by: Eric Fink | July 10, 2010 at 12:33 PM
I think Eric is correct. Might the name of the musical be ... "Home, James"?
Posted by: Tim Zinnecker | July 10, 2010 at 05:10 PM
No, you're not on the right track here. I guess we'll have to wait for Roger to weigh in with some clues! (Clearly, he has more of a career in trivia questions than I do...)
Posted by: Jacqueline Lipton | July 10, 2010 at 07:08 PM
I am stumped as well without asking my wife who is a Broadway press agent. But I do know which Broadway hit (a farce) was written by a former IP partner in a Washington law firm. Trade ya...
Posted by: Spencer Weber Waller | July 11, 2010 at 09:42 AM
In the absence of clues from Roger, I'll give everyone a hint.
This musical is one of the more recent ones - it premiered on Broadway in the last decade.
Posted by: Jacqueline Lipton | July 11, 2010 at 10:07 AM
Oh, is it Avenue Q?
Posted by: Eric Fink | July 11, 2010 at 01:48 PM
You got it, Erik.
Posted by: Jacqueline Lipton | July 11, 2010 at 04:58 PM
Hmm, a law student? Didn't Jeff Marx conceive of the project at the BMI Workshop after Cardozo and the NY bar?
Posted by: Peter Yu | July 12, 2010 at 03:51 AM