Once Truman Capote gets his misfits into the tree house he's not sure what to do with them. So Karen Morrow shows up as a hippie revivalist and sings 12 minutes of white gospel!
The Grass Harp would not be Karen's last Broadway musical but it would be for Barbara Cook. After a string of flops she opted to focus on her concert career, coming back for the occasional Sondheim revue.
The New York Times wrote: “The musical is also folksy and fey, in so far as it has any
real character at all, for it is the kind of show that is almost as difficult
to dislike as to like…. Mr. Capote’s concept of pastoral innocence and goodness
suffers from mawkish sentimentality and dies quietly with scarcely a murmured
protest.”
Luckily for fans of the score there was a cast album and a televised concert.
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