In 1928, American playwright Lynn Riggs received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a grant that allowed him to travel to France. It was there that he wrote Green Grow the Lilacs, a play with music named after the Irish folk song that was popular in the United States at the time. After previews at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C., the play opened on Broadway at the Guild Theatre (now the August Wilson Theatre) on January 26, 1931. Popular leading man Franchot Tone played the handsome singing cowboy Curly, with June Walker as his love interest Laurey. Lee Strasberg, who would go on to become a
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