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The Race to Urga is a musical theatre play.The musical started in 1968 as an adaptation of the Bertolt Brecht play The Exception and the Rule with the project soon renamed to A Pray by Blecht. The theme of Brecht’s play was the exploitation of capitalism of the working class in the 1930s.Jerome Robbins asked John Guare to write the adaptation. Leonard Bernstein was to compose the music with Stephen Sondheim intending to write the lyrics.