Good morning, all! I've been up and about for about ninety minutes now and the laundry is in the washers in the basement and the washers down the street at the laundromat. I had peculiar dreams last night in which I was workng in either the office equipment place I worked in during the 1970s or in a pharmacy. The pharmacy is certainly possible, given all the crap I've been ingesting/spraying/breathing since Jan 15.
Today, after puttering about the apartment on bug control, I have to begin the new Patrick Cassidy chart. I'd like to get it into Fed Ex tomorrow night for Thursday delivery.
I discovered musical theatre in the 9th grade, with a production of Kurt Weill's KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY. I believe DR Ginny's husband Richard played the timpani in the orchestra. I loved movie musicals but I never made the connection between them and shows until 9th grade.
Because my family was essentially poor white trash, cast albums were out of my fanily's budget so my mother was always bringing me home from the market those Camden show recordings: Hill Bowen conducts THE MUSIC MAN, for instance, and I discovered the public library had cast albums, for which I abandoned the few Gilbert & Sullivan recordings I usually checked out. I was foolishly eclectic at that time and never checked out at the time TENDERLOIN, FIORELLO, or SHE LOVES ME because the info on the recordings didn't appeal to me. I didn't discover how glorious SHE LOVES ME is until I was a junior in college, and TENDERLOIN - now one of my faves - was a mystery till grad school.
My next two OBC recordings are BYE BYE BIRDIE, which came with my Christmas gift of 1960, I believe, a portable stereo phonograph. Then came either KISS ME, KATE or CAMELOT. My faves then were Lerner & Loewe and Rodgers & Hammerstein. Around 1962, I discovered Bernstein's WEST SIDE STORY and CANDIDE, thanks to Stanley Green's discography in his "World of Musical Comedy." No stopping me after that.
My first cast album memory is the OBC of MY FAIR LADY