of Everest, The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis Indians (1969), simultaneously a review of America's treatment of Native Americans and a critique of the Vietnam War; inspired the 1976 film by Robert Altman, Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson. Wings (1978), a more somber story of a stroke victim's recovery Nine (1982), an adaptation of Federico Fellini's film 8½ Good Help is Hard to Find (1982) End of the World with Symposium to Follow (1984), a mordant investigation of the arms race and nuclear destruction. Road to Nirvana (1991) Success (published in Plays in One Act, Ecco Press, 1991) Phantom (1992), a musical version of The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston. High Society (Broadway musical, 1998) Y2K (2000) — subsequently published under the title Because He Can References External links The Fales Library guide to the Arthur Kopit Papers The Samuel French Arthur Kopit page 1937 births 2021 deaths 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American male writers City College of New York faculty Harvard University alumni Jewish American dramatists and playwrights Lawrence High School (Cedarhurst, New York) alumni People from Lawrence, Nassau County, New York Wesleyan University faculty Writers from Manhattan Yale University faculty 21st-century American Jews