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Manilow and Bruce Sussman’s musical, “Harmony,” tells the mostly unknown history of The Comedian Harmonists in Nazi-era Germany. But it’s a muddled, unilluminating history lesson.
Tom Stoppard, being photographed for Radio Times magazine, on Jan. 13, 1972.
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In 2013, the playwright Tom Stoppard chose his biographer: Hermione Lee, an esteemed scholar who’d previously written on Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and Penelope Fitzgerald. “What’s the first thing you remember?” she asked him a fine place to start. That same year, perhaps as a warning, the 76-year-old Stoppard gave a speech in which he noted that biographers are forced to stay truthful to “irrefutable” facts. But the imaginative writer, Stoppard added with relish the one who “makes things up” can create a more “persuasive” story out of history.