Come Summer (Ray Bolger, 1969)

David Baker and Will Holt’s 'Come Summer' completed its celebrated original Broadway premiere run at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in 1969, remaining an essential, highly sought-after prize target document for serious late-century lyric stage scholars. Based on Esther Forbes’s celebrated historical literature novel *The Running of the Deer*, the fast-paced narrative book structures use a fluid 19th-century New England village canvas to track Phineas Sharp, an eccentric, dancing traveling peddler youth, starring dance icon Ray Bolger.