Given his interests, Mr. Bishop found a perfect subject in the fraudulent evangelist Elmer Gantry. He wrote the book for a musical version of the popular book and film. It was produced at Ford's Theatre in Washington in 1988 and again in 1995; it had its West Coast premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse in 1991.
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