![]() ![]() Only three years ago, Dart had another project on Broadway. She’s also co-writing the script with Thom Thomas, based on her novel rather than the movie’s screenplay (by Mary Agnes Donoghue). Dart, 69 and petite, her hair in dark bangs and her wrists adorned with bracelets, is writing the lyrics for “Beaches” to a new score by emerging composer David Austin. Start with musicals, since song and dance have brought Dart to town. “I have written in every format but fortune cookies,” cracks Dart, whose early professional gigs were writing for Sonny and Cher. Dart turns out to be a showbiz kid from way back - a tap dancer, a sitcom writer, even an old hand at musical theater lyrics. That might give you the impression that Dart has been a re-purposing one-hit wonder, but multi-purposing is more like it. Now “Beaches” is washing ashore again as a brand-new musical starting Tuesday at Arlington’s Signature Theatre. The book begat the 1988 Hollywood hit with Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey, a multi-hankie picture immortalized by a modest little tune called “The Wind Beneath My Wings.” ![]() The 1985 novel followed an urchin showgirl and an aristocratic tyke, best girlfriends for life till death claims one of them too soon. ![]() “ Beaches” is what Iris Rainer Dart is best known for, and if it’s all she ever did, her career would have reached an enviable high tide. ![]()
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