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I take issue with something Jerry Herman once told me. “Until I wrote ‘If He Walked into My Life’ for Mame,” he said, “I had never written a ballad that I would call ‘classy.’” But what about “Let’s Not Waste a Moment” from Milk and Honey? I’d say that one’s pretty classy. The Tony committee […]

So did you know that when the original cast album of Bajour was recorded that one singer didn’t finish her song? At the end of the show’s big romantic ballad “Must It Be Love?” Nancy Dussault gave way on the final phrase to another singer. No, I didn’t know it, either. But that’s the type […]

If you’re anything like me – and mind you, I’m not suggesting you should be – two weeks ago you may very well have played the 1973 revival cast album of Irene. Those who did were undoubtedly paying tribute to three of its cast members who, in one unfortunate fell swoop, died in a three-day […]

As I post this, it’s January 3, 2017, which means that in the past forty-eight hours you’ve broken your New Year’s Resolutions. Still, at nearly two days, that diet lasted longer many others you’ve attempted, didn’t it? Well, there’s still time to make some musical theater resolutions. If you’ve been saying “soundtrack” when you’re referring […]

One of the most delightful songs in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown is “Little Known Facts,” in which Lucy explains to Linus that a fir tree gives fur; elms grow into oaks; clouds make the wind blow and seven other pieces of mis-information. I hope I’m more accurate than Lucy in detailing what I […]