Opening the Shutters - Knighton, Nan
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Opening the Shutters has been called extraordinary by author Delia Ephron, glorious by playwright Ken Ludwig, stunning by Richard Ridge of Broadway World and Elizabeth Goodenough says of Knighton's poems They fly. They take risks...with arresting images, kick-ass verbs, hilarious dialogue and dramatic power. Brilliant. Knighton's poems are conversational and, as she says, meant for those who say, I'm not really a poetry person as much as they are for poetry lovers. The following excerpt is from a poem called The Grown-Up. This hand on my husband is for being 13 and aching to be kissed This…mehr

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Opening the Shutters has been called extraordinary by author Delia Ephron, glorious by playwright Ken Ludwig, stunning by Richard Ridge of Broadway World and Elizabeth Goodenough says of Knighton's poems They fly. They take risks...with arresting images, kick-ass verbs, hilarious dialogue and dramatic power. Brilliant. Knighton's poems are conversational and, as she says, meant for those who say, I'm not really a poetry person as much as they are for poetry lovers. The following excerpt is from a poem called The Grown-Up. This hand on my husband is for being 13 and aching to be kissed This flung open window is for the smell of cafeterias and locker rooms This lazing sleep till noon is for logarithms at 9:00 a.m. This house of rolling books is for Miss Barge who shamed me for reading Salinger And this poem is for my neighbor Rick, the lawyer, as he stood in the check-out line at the grocery store, watching a boy beg his mother for a Snickers and when the mother's back was turned, he whispered to the boy, I can have anything I want.
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Nan Knighton received a Tony nomination for Best Book of a Musical for The Scarlet Pimpernel, for which she also wrote the lyrics. Pimpernel is regularly performed around the world. Its most recent American production was held at Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall. Knighton wrote the book for Saturday Night Fever for both the West End production in London (Olivier nomination) and its Broadway production. She wrote book and lyrics for Camille Claudel, which premiered at the Goodspeed Opera House's Norma Terris Theatre. Her songs have been performed everywhere from Carnegie Hall to Japan's annual Takarazuka Revue and in numerous cabarets including Storybook: The Songs of Nan Knighton. Knighton was honored for being one of eight lyricists in The Dramatist's Guild 2016 Gala "Great Writers Thank Their Lucky Stars."