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Flying Over Sunset Creators James Lapine, Tom Kitt and Michael Korie on Why Their New Musical Is a Trip

by Michael Appler

Years before Timothy Leary popularized psychedelic experimentation, LSD found a home in Hollywood. Lysergic acid diethylamide"then legal"was used in elite circles during the 1950s, employed in hush-hush psychiatric treatments. Flying Over Sunset, a new musical at Lincoln Center Theater, uses that relatively unknown history to tell the story of three public figures in crisis, not the hedonistic ex…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 6:24pm on February 28, 2020