ABSTRACT
James Lapine never set out to become a Broadway director. The man responsible for such musicals as William Finn’s March of the Falsettos (1981), and Falsettoland (1990; director and coauthor); and he and Stephen Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park with George (1984), Into the Woods (1987), and Passion (1994) holds a master’s degree in photography and design. In the late-
’70s he took a job as a design teacher and graphic artist with the Yale School of Drama’s Theater Magazine and the Yale Repertory Theatre. It was there that he became interested in the theatre.
