“There
was dashing Dmitri, elusive Ivan
And
Alyosha with the laughing eyes.
Then
came the dawn,
The
brothers were gone
I
just can't forget those wonderful guys.”—Movie starlet Barbara Musk (played by Elaine May), to disc jockey
Jack Ego (played by Mike Nichols),
singing lyrics from her new musical adaptation of Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, performed during
their 1960 improv show An Evening With
Mike Nichols and Elaine May, quoted in Sam Wasson, Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art (2017)
(Press
photo of Elaine May during a stage comedy performance with improv partner Mike
Nichols, December 1958.)
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