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That morning there was a note beside my drawing:

Original Production Sketches for the ill-fated children’s musical Shelob’s Web

Closing only halfway through the first act at its premier in the spring of 1973, this musical holds the record for the shortest run for a major Broadway production. According to reports in the New York Times and The Harold, the performance broke up amid rioting in the audience, the majority of whom were children between the ages of 6 and 12. The production designer, K. Wehrle, was later quoted, at her arraignment, as saying: “We thought the world was ready for a darker take on the sugar-coated children’s story.”

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