We have a few New Yorkers in town this weekend. The team of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens along with "Broadway's Golden Couple" (or something like that as they were introduced) Marin Maizie and Jason Danielly, in a world premiere of a new show
Ahrens and Flaherty: Words and Music The show, which was more like a revue or concert, was very well put together. Everyone sang, including Lynn singing "Times Like This" from
Lucky Stiff. Some other highlights included Stephen playing the theme from "Ragtime" as a piano solo, MAN he can play. It was amazing. Also, while I'm not a Marin Maizie fan, she did bring me to tears with "Back To Before", maybe it was hearing it in person. Songs from
The Glorious Ones were performed as well as bits from each of their shows. Although, anything from
Dessa Rose seemed to have been missing. Lynn and Stephen gave some interesting tidbits about the creation of their shows in between the songs. It was a great night.
Today, A&F will be speaking to one of our local high school kids and I'm going to attend that gathering and hope to be able to chat with the team.