The true story that inspired February House, the new musical at the Public Theater, is so cool that I couldn't wait to see the show. Here it is: in the early '40s, a group of artists that included the poet W.H. Auden, the fiction writer Carson McCullers, the composer Benjamin Britten, the tenor Peter Pears and the stripper extraordinaire Gypsy Rose Lee all lived together in a rundown Brooklyn Heights boarding house.&…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 07:10AM on June 2, 2012