What Would Robert Moses Do?

The play "Boozy: The Life, Death, and Subsequent Vilification of Le Corbusier and, More Importantly, Robert Moses" opens Off-Broadway in New York this month.

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February 4, 2005, 10:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech


A theater company known for its "bizarrely educational" plays takes on the legacy of Robert Moses in a theater in Soho, the neighborhood Moses would have destroyed with a highway."With guest appearances by Benito Mussolini, FDR, and the ghost of Baron von Haussmann, Moses learns from the greats until true power is finally his."

Thanks to Heidi Schallberg

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