Wright and Green credit Anastasio with the flexibility and bravery to know when a song isn't working, as he did just a week into previews at the BrooksAtkinsonTheatre.
The members of the creative team have since fixed all the problems, and the producers have had the good sense to transfer "Hardbody" to the medium-sized BrooksAtkinsonTheatre, whose stage is small enough to give the show a tight focus that was missing from the La Jolla production.
The agenda was clear: Sprint had a new music phone designed by Samsung, and the group was hoping for a positive reception from a man who has become to technology what BrooksAtkinson once was to the New York theatre someone whose judgment can ratify years of effort or sink the show.