Exit The King
Found short mention Jim was going to provide music for play "Exit The King", but it looks like he just used some music by The Doors. -AW
‘Exit The King’ Soon, Converse
Amherst Student
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The play will be performed in the round and in an unconventional multi-media production with offbeat lighting, sound, costumes, special film sequences by Dan Keller '69 and Terry Rodgers '69 and music by Jim Steinman '69 and Marty Brody '71.
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Source: Amherst Student archives
Kalter's ‘Exit the King’ is ‘Major Achievement’
by Scott Hammen '72
Amherst Student
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The only aspect of the production which made me unhappy was the elaborate musical routine with which it closed. It was a mistake to assume in the first place that the king's death agony needed further development by having him writhing to the music of The Doors.
I don't find The Doors' music among the major artistic expressions of our times, but even if it is, they do not provide better closing scenes to Ionesco plays than Ionesco does.
I couldn't help but wonder of Kalter really wanted Berenger to convulse to a Dixieland rag and finally end his life to a familiar pop song or whether he just took what Steinman offered him.
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Source: Amherst Student archives
Sharp Criticism of ‘Exit the King’
by Edward Claflin '71
Amherst Student
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What do The Doors have to do with Death? I don't know. Just one of those enigmas mankind must face.
Source: Amherst Student archives