Hello, everyone! I got to DC around 11:30 yesterday morning to discover that the Capitol Hill Suites at present have no business center with computer access. Since I didn't take my laptop, I couldn't check in on the HHW goings on. By 5:00 yesterday, I'd been through all of the cartons of music for ROBERTA in the Jerome Kern Collection, I photocopied two scores I needed for the files, the copyright libretto for the show titled GoWNS BY ROBERTA, and looked at the copyright libretto for JUBILEE, which included the cut songs "Waltz Down the Aisle" and "Yours" and was missing "Mrs & Mrs Smith," "Just One Of Those Things," and "Swing That Swing."
Then, librarian Loras Schissel and I hit a Mexican restaurant for a wonderful dnner and large margaritas. I got back to the hotel around 7:30, watched an episode of THE MENTALIST and passed out around 9pm.
This morning I looked at the show music files for CHEE-CHEE, ROBERTA (film songs) and GOWNS BY ROBERTA (Broadway songs), photocopied the five songs from CHEE-CHEE, said goodbye toeveryone nd got to Union Station around 10:30, exchanged my ticket for the 11:02 train to New York, and got home about an hour ago.
I got an email from New World Records enclosing a review. Nigel Simeone gave the Herbert songs a fantastic and intelligent review in the new issue of the International Record Review that shows how condescending and ridiculous Steve Suskin of Playbill.com and Richard Traubner of the American Record Guide are as reviewers and what a large amount of gall they have to consider themselves music critics.
