Editing John Sebastian (section)

===Broadway musical composer===
One of Sebastian's first projects after leaving the Spoonful was composing the music and lyrics for a play with music, ''[[Jimmy Shine]]'', written by [[Murray Schisgal]]. It opened on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] in December 1968, with [[Dustin Hoffman]] in the title role, and ran until April 1969, for a total of over 150 performances.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121102213226/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,839680,00.html?promoid=googlep "Theater: Urban Picaresque"], ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', Time.com, December 13, 1968. Retrieved June 5, 2015.</ref><ref>Pollock, Bruce. [https://books.google.com/books?id=PD0vX2QIzdYC&pg=PA94 ''By the Time We Got to Woodstock: The Great Rock 'n' Roll Revolution of 1969.''] Backbeat Books, 2009, p. 94–95.</ref><ref>Bordman, Gerald. [https://books.google.com/books?id=cET0eE7j5o4C&pg=PA429 ''Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1930–1969'']. Oxford Univ. Press, 1996, p. 429. {{ISBN|0-19-509079-9}}.</ref><ref>Playbill Vault, [http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/8047/Jimmy-Shine "Jimmy Shine" (database entry)], playbillvault.com. Retrieved June 5, 2015.</ref><ref>The total number of ''Jimmy Shine'' performances reported varies: Pollock reports 166 performances, compared to 161 by Playbill Vault and 153 by Bordman.</ref> In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Sebastian wrote a stage musical adaptation of [[E.B. White]]'s ''[[Charlotte's Web]]'' in consultation with his godfather Garth Williams, who illustrated White's original book. The proposed musical included 20 songs, some of which Sebastian performed in concert, but the musical was never produced.<ref>Samuels, Lennox, [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19800808&id=loBQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ChIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5725,1378831&hl=en "'Charlotte's Web' Captures Sebastian"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016205628/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1368&dat=19800808&id=loBQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ChIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5725,1378831&hl=en |date=October 16, 2015 }}, ''[[Milwaukee Sentinel]]'', August 8, 1980, Section Let's Go, p. 3.</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/13/arts/sha-na-na-revisits-the-50-s-and-60-s.html "Sha Na Na Revisits the 50s and 60s"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 13, 1981, archived at NYTimes.com.  Retrieved June 8, 2015.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150608145837/https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/10770633_e-b-white-john-sebastian-charlottes-web "Lot 36090, (E. B. White). John Sebastian. Charlotte's Web, (Musical) Based on the Book by E. B. White. Music and Lyrics by John Sebastian. Adaptation by John Sebastian." (auction lot listing for script).] Originally published at https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/10770633_e-b-white-john-sebastian-charlottes-web, February 8, 2012. Archived at Webcitation.org, June 8, 2015. Retrieved June 8, 2015.</ref>