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Cabin in the Sky is a musical with music by Vernon Duke, book by Lynn Root, and lyrics by John Latouche. The musical opened on Broadway in 1940. The show is described as a "parable of Southern Negro Life with echoes of Ferenc Molnár's Liliom (which would be turned into the musical Carousel) and Marc Connelly's The Green Pastures."
Lynn Root: software engineer in NYC.
Lynn Root is a Staff Engineer at Spotify, an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, and the Chair of the PyLadies Global Council. She will present on The Design of Everyday APIs at PyCon US 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Aug 13, 1997 · Lynn Root, 92, who wrote the important black-cast Broadway musical “Cabin in the Sky.”. Root began his career as a stage actor in New York in the 1920s, a protege who appeared in many ...
Lynn Root. Lynn Root is a Staff Engineer at Spotify and resident FOSS evangelist. She is a seasoned speaker on building and maintaining distributed systems, and is currently spearheading governance compliance for Spotify's ML/AI platform.
Everyone’s using it. But most likely, they’re doing it wrong, just like we did.By building a simplified chaos...
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Sep 24, 2019 · Cabin in the Sky took an unlikely route to Broadway, with Lynn Root writing the story first, then taking it to choreographer George Balanchine who hoped to shape the show into his Broadway directing debut. Envisioning a musical, a composer would be required and Balanchine enlisted the services of Vernon Duke.
