Tuning Up: A Broadway debut at 61?

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Take a brain break from the rest of the news with this feel-good arts story from right here in S.C.!

At 61, this SC native and former USC professor made his Broadway debut. ‘It was the mountaintop.’

from Free Times

“Stage, film, television, academia. Stan Brown has accomplished many goals in his life, but he didn’t make it to Broadway until age 61 … A University of South Carolina alumnus and former faculty member, Brown recently finished a nearly nine-month run at New York City’s Imperial Theatre in the musical ‘Water for Elephants,’ which was nominated for seven Tony Awards…”

Read August Krickel’s Free Times story for the full scoop. (Subscription possibly required outside the Midlands.)