Good morning, all!
Today is a Jerome Moross day. It will remain Jerome Moross day until I go back to work on Paint Your Wagon. The project I'm working on is a new vocal score for his last(?) musical, Gentlemen Be Seated!, which was performed in a series of new operas by New York City Opera in 1963, with a cast including Dick Shawn, Alice Ghostley, and Carol Brice. The show, which has dialogue scenes, is a minstrel show history of the American Civil War. The score is quite beautiful, and I'm sure that the outrageously funny mini-opera about the shenanigans of Confederate spy Belle Boyd trying to seduce generals for information was very funny with Alice Ghostlry as the spy:
I spy! I Spy!
I find it's easy as pie.
Though I'm svelte and I'm slim and I never look mussed
I've a whole filing system within my false bust.
I also have laundry today, and that's about it.