Timothy Crouse
Timothy Crouse (born 1947)[1] is an American journalist and writer.
Family
Crouse is the son of Anna (née Erskine) and Russel Crouse.[2] His maternal grandparents were Pauline (Ives) and author, educator, and former Columbia professor John Erskine.[3][4] Timothy Crouse's affinity for campaign reporters and the theater took root from his father, Russel Crouse, who was a career newspaperman and playwright.[5] "The stories he told me of his newspaper days—especially traveling around the country with prankish sports teams—had a fatal tinge of romance about them," said Crouse.[5] His father's career in theatre began in 1928 when he played Bellflower in the play Gentlemen of the Press. Later, his father turned his attention to writing. In 1934, he and his long-time partner Howard Lindsay together revised P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton's book for the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes.[6] "My father and Howard's trademark was a painstaking craftsmanship," says Crouse.[6] "They spent months on an outline for a play, then worked on the dialogue, then rewrote and rewrote until everything was just right."[6] And more than fifty years after his father collaborated on the original score, Timothy Crouse's revised libretto of Anything Goes opened on Broadway.[6]
Crouse is the brother of actress Lindsay Crouse. He attended Harvard University.
Early career
Crouse served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco from 1968 to 1969.[7] Returning to the United States he wrote for the Boston Herald before joining the staff of Rolling Stone where he worked as a contributing editor from 1971 to 1972.[8]
The Boys on the Bus
Crouse is the author of
Later work
After The Boys on the Bus, Crouse became the Washington columnist for Esquire and also wrote articles for The New Yorker and The Village Voice.[12] In 1982 Crouse conceived the idea of reviving Anything Goes. He co-authored a new libretto for the musical with John Weidman that opened at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on October 19, 1987, and ran for 784 performances. They re-ordered the musical numbers, borrowing Cole Porter pieces from other Porter shows, a practice which the composer often engaged in. ("Easy To Love" was from the 1936 movie Born to Dance.) In 2002 the musical was produced at the Royal National Theatre in London.[5] In 2000 Alfred A. Knopf published Crouse and Luc Brébion's translation of Nobel-prize winner Roger Martin du Gard's nearly 800-page memoir Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort.[13] Crouse has been working on fiction for the past several years and his story Sphinxes appeared in the Spring 2003 issue of Zoetrope: All-Story.[14]
Citations
- ISBN 0-313-29545-X), p. 30.
- ^ Film Reference. "Lindsay Crouse Biography (1948–)."
- ^ "Newsweek". 1945.
- ^ Hamersly, Lewis Randolph; Leonard, John W.; Mohr, William Frederick; Knox, Herman Warren; Holmes, Frank R.; Downs, Winfield Scott (1938). "Who's who in New York City and State".
- ^ a b c d mediabistro.com: Articles: Q&A: Timothy Crouse
- ^ a b c d Program notes by Don Shewey for Lincoln Center Theater's 1988 revival of "Anything Goes"
- ^ Bibliography of Peace Corps Writers – C
- ^ The Boys on the Bus – 1970's Government and Politics
- ^ The New York Times > Books > Hunter S. Thompson, 67, Author, Commits Suicide
- ^ R.W. Apple, a Times Journalist in Full, Dies at 71 – New York Times
- ^ Q&N: The Boys on the Bus (Timothy Crouse)[permanent dead link]
- ^ Random House Publicity | The Boys on the Bus by Hunter S. Thompson
- ^ Sturrock, John, "The Man Who Believed in Nothing" (review), January 23, 2000.
- ^ Zoetrope: All-Story: Back Issue