(1987 to 1988 season) He was music director for Eugene O'Neill's play, "Mourning Becomes Electra," at the Trinity Repertory Company Theatre in Providence, Rhode Island with Richard Kneeland, Barbara Orson, Jennifer Van Dyck, David PB Stephens, Richard Ferrone, Patricia McGuire, Richard Kavanaugh, David C. Jones, Howard London, Geraldine Librandi, Sheryl Dold, Daniel Von Bargen, Timothy Crowe and Brian McEleney in the cast. Edward Payson Call was director. Robert D. Soule was scenery designer. John F. Custer was lighting designer. William Lane was costume designer.
A rock critic for such publications as Rolling Stone and Sing Out!,
Paul Nelson was one of the first to recognize and promote the talent of
Bob Dylan; Dylan repaid Nelson by one day stopping by his (Nelson's)
house while he was out of town and "helping himself" to at least
twenty-five of Nelson's records, "providing songs for Dylan's early
repertory".
