 The reason this was exceptional is that at the time both shows were still running on broadway.In many ways the biggest BYU production done by Hansen was "Sand in their Shoes," a musical about the Mormon Pioneers with text by Don Oscarson and music by Crawford Gates.While head of the BYU Theatre Department Hansen oversaw the implementation of graduate studies in 1960 and the move to suitable space in the Harris Fine Arts Center in 1965.