Producer Plans New York Run Of 'Sing Muse'

Less than three weeks after it closed at Leverett House, Sing Muse has been signed for a New York run. An option on the musical comedy by Joseph Raposo '58 an Erich Segal '58 was taken by Robert D. Feldstein, who is planning an off-Broadway production for the early fall.

Six New York producers bid for the rights, and the authors turned down more lucrative offers to sign with Feldstein, who last year presented Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap.

Segal, author of the book and lyrics, is a resident tutor in Dunster House, working for a doctorate in comparative literature, and intends to take his generals in the early fall. "But now I have to do a great deal of rewriting," he complained with a smile. "The point of view must come through stronger, and the ending has to mean something."

Authors Wrote Pudding Show

Raposo and Segal originally pooled forces in 1958 when they collaborated on the Hasty Pudding Show, The Big Fizz. Last year they wrote Voulez-Vous, a financial failure which both authors attribute at least in part to the CRIMSON's lukewarm review.

Early this spring, Segal became interested in the idea of writing an expose of The illad. As little as a month and a half ago, however, a Cambridge production of Sing Muse still seemed unlikely. By a series of misunderstandings, Raposo had been led to believe first that the Loeb Drama Center wanted a musical for the experimental theatre, and then that the Leverett House Drama Society wanted only a short place to fill a double bill.