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.
I think Eric is correct. Might the name of the musical be … "Home, James"?
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…)
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…
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.
Oh, is it Avenue Q?
You got it, Erik.
Hmm, a law student? Didn't Jeff Marx conceive of the project at the BMI Workshop after Cardozo and the NY bar?