
The Farnsworth Invention
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Aaron Sorkin’s high-octane historical drama 'The Farnsworth Invention' turned the stage of the Music Box Theatre into a spectacular, rapid-fire battlefield of technological strategy in 2007, running for an accomplished 84 performances. The brilliant plot chronicles the cutthroat, multi-million dollar race to invent the modern television apparatus, tracking Philo Farnsworth, a brilliant, small-town Utah farm boy who conceives the electronic transmission blueprints as a teenager, as he goes head-to-head with David Sarnoff, the unyielding corporate tycoon who leads RCA. Directed with relentless kinetic energy by Des McAnuff, the production starred Hank Azaria and Jimmi Simpson.

