"I expected it to be tough, " Anastasio said of his debut transition to stage songwriter.
The show has a book by Pulitzer Prize-winner Doug Wright and songs by Phish lead singer Trey Anastasio and Amanda Green.
Anastasio threw himself into the work with the enthusiasm of a novice.
"I'm looking forward to playing live music again, " Anastasio says with mock fatigue, anticipating his band's summer tour that starts in Maine in July.
Five years later, in 1979, he became part of the junta that ended the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Debayle, and in 1985 was elected president.
Anastasio , Associate Director for Defense and Nuclear Technologies, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Dr. Troy Wade , former Assistant Secretary of Energy for Defense Programs.
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 Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
Anastasio, who was obsessed with "West Side Story" as a kid, joked that he used to love poring over old photos of Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein lounging on couches as they collaborated on last-minute songs.
Some music world stars who have recently taken their licks for offering original stage music include Trey Anastasio, a founding member of Phish, who teamed up this season with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug Wright and veteran musical songwriter Amanda Green.
In "Backwards Down the Number Line, " guitarist Trey Anastasio, bassist Mike Gordon, keyboardist Page McConnell and drummer Jon Fishman sound genuinely thrilled to be playing together again, as they crank out a five-minute rock 'n' roll anthem that's a heartfelt celebration of enduring companionship.
Claimants for compensation will have to prove before a judge that they really owned the land they claim, and that it was unjustly seized (a flexible concept: a judge might accept that the late dictator Anastasio Somoza had indeed awarded himself legal title to some land he had got hold of, but that its confiscation after he was overthrown in 1979 was fair enough).
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