Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter Songs to Anchor New NYC Musical
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Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter Songs to Anchor New NYC Musical

Red Roses, Green Gold is set in 1920s Maryland and “tells the fantastical and comedic story of Jackson Jones and his family of swindlers as they gamble their way to love and riches.” Garcia’s collaborations with lyricist Robert Hunter will comprise the bulk of the show’s music, though it will also features contributions from the late guitarist’s Grateful Dead cohorts Phil Lesh, Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, as well as Hunter’s longtime collaborator, Greg Anton.

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Producer Gigi Pritzker on ‘Genius,’ her first foray into TV
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Producer Gigi Pritzker on ‘Genius,’ her first foray into TV

Gigi Pritzker didn’t plunge headlong into the movie business — her original life plan was to run an NGO in Nepal. An accidental journey to film school set her on a path to producing lots of films, including the Oscar-nominated Hell or High Water. But she’d never done television until Genius, on the life of Albert Einstein, demanded to be made as a series. The first season of the National Geographic anthology series is now up for 10 Emmys. 

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