The Race to Urga

The Race to Urga, later renamed A Pray by Blecht, is an unfinished musical adaptation of the Bertolt Brecht play The Exception and the Rule. Collaboration on the production began in 1968, when Jerome Robbins asked John Guare to write the adaptation. Leonard Bernstein was to compose the music and Stephen Sondheim to write the lyrics. The musical was announced to open at Lincoln Center in January 1969, but Robbins left the production during cast auditions, and the project folded.