David Ives

At The Shed, yeah.

It, it's Sondheim's last ever work with a, uh, based on these two Luis Buñuel movies, with a book by David Ives, great David Ives.

And, um, I saw it at the National, was it two summers ago?

Mm-hmm.

Kunza.

With the English version by Jim Steinman and David Ives.

Music by Jim Steinman.

And lyrics by Michael Kunza and Jim Steinman.

And into the bargain of what Jim was doing, To his credit, he and the people involved assembled a pretty decent team.

John Caird from Les Mis was going to direct and to sort of soup up the book a little bit.

In addition to being a well-regarded comic playwright, David Ives had also done all the encores adaptations, concert adaptations of shows like Wonderful Town and stuff like that.

So he was good at taking musicals.