The season's most provocative plan for a Broadway musical came from an unlikely impresario: Poet-Novelist-Historian Robert (The White Goddess) Graves. The subject, announced by Graves during an Israeli lecture tour: Solomon and Sheba. Plans call for only a dozen beauties to represent Solomon's 700 wives and 300 concubines. As for casting, Graves hopes to get Lena Horne for Sheba "because she is black but comely, as the Song of Songs says." For the score, he plans to approach Leonard Bernstein. Solomon and Sheba, says Graves, will be "different from the film on the same subject. Mine will be light...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
