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''High Tor'' is a 1936 play by Maxwell Anderson. Twenty years after the original production, Anderson adapted it into a television musical with Arthur Schwartz. ==Play== The play is named for a summit overlooking the Tappan Zee portion of New York's Hudson River, near where Anderson lived in Rockland County.〔"Actor Is Building Rockland Homes", ''The New York Times'', June 6, 1937, p. 91.〕 The story was inspired by the real life controversy over quarrying the palisades along the lower Hudson.〔"Last Threat to Hudson Scenery at Mt. Taurus, ''The New York Times'', June 26, 1932, p. XX18.〕 The play also shares the plot element of a ghostly crew of Dutch sailors on the Hudson with Washington Irving's short story ''Rip Van Winkle''. Anderson began writing the play in May 1936.〔Maxwell Anderson, ''Dramatist in America: Letters of Maxwell Anderson, 1912–1958'', University of North Carolina Press, 2001, p. xlvii. ISBN 978-0-8078-4940-8.〕 It was first presented on any stage in Cleveland, Ohio, in December 1936, with Burgess Meredith (Anderson's neighbor in Rockland County)〔"Actor Is Building Rockland Homes", ''The New York Times'', June 6, 1937, p. 91.〕 and Peggy Ashcroft in the lead roles.〔"‘High Tor’ Acclaimed at Opening in Ohio", ''The New York Times'', December 31, 1936, p. 20.〕〔Maxwell Anderson, ''High Tor: A Play in Three Acts'', Anderson House, 1937.〕 The production moved to Broadway ten days later in January 1937, where it played 171 performances.〔Internet Broadway Database.〕 Anderson won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for the best American play of the 1936–1937 season. The award included this citation: :In its decision the circle celebrates the advent of the first distinguished fantasy by an American in many years. Imaginative and as comic as it is poetic in both spirit and expression, ''High Tor'' is a singular accomplishment, giving rare grace to this theatrical season in New York.〔“Award of Critics Given to ‘High Tor’”, ''The New York Times'', March 29, 1937, p. 21.〕 In 1942, Anderson helped organize and served as the chairman of the Rockland County Committee To Save High Tor, which helped raise money to purchase the property in 1943 for the creation of a public park.〔''Dramatist in America'', pp. liv, 126.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「High Tor (play)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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