![]() ![]() They admitted him after that audition, and then helped their talented student fly into the stratosphere. Petron, who, along with Professor Emeritus Jacques Burdick, PhD, had come to Adelphi in the early 1970s from the Yale School of Drama to start an undergrad repertory theater, were blown away by the young Larson. And that was my first impression: ‘Who is this guy?’ He was a firecracker.” “He did some monologues, but that was after he putzed on the piano for a while. “He went right to the piano-and this was an acting audition,” Petron said. Larson was a teen who had come to the Olmsted Theater on campus to audition for a spot in the performing arts department. Petron remembers the moment he met Larson in the late 1970s. ![]() ![]() “He came in like a spark plug,” said Nicholas Petron, MA ’70, professor and chair of the Department of Theatre, in a panel discussion held last November. Jonathan Larson, with Maggie Lally as Mary Magdalene, in a 1982 campus production of Godspell. ![]()
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