Maslova: Tolstoy Musical

David Boles wrote the libretto and lyrics for -- Maslova: Tolstoy Musical -- with music by Al Carmines and inspired by the Count Leo Tolstory novel, "Resurrection." The musical was a Summer project for the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at the Columbia University School of the Arts and was performed at Columbia University Teachers College in the Fall. Boles and Carmines were each awarded Summer stipdends from the Columbia University School of the Arts in 1989 to write the musical. Howard Stein and Grafton Nunes were faculty advisors. The first image is the casting notice from Backstage published on June 9, 1989, followed by the script for the entire musical -- click the first page to view. Finally, will see an excerpt from the 2005 University of Michigan Press book -- The Gay & Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era -- concerning the collaboration between Boles and Carmines.