Thanks to everyone at Haines for yesterday's wishes; you make me feel good all under. I thought of you opening gifts when I spotted Edisaurus' name on a Johnny Mercer album (!)
I had a lovely day, an open house, where talented singers stopped by, proffered a song or two, and cleared out before the tiny apartment ran out of places to sit; then the next batch arrived. The big challenge was when we couldn't find the music to I've Been Here Before/It's Never That Easy so I had to play it by ear, in A-flat minor (that's seven flats). More fun was a major cabaret singer's impromptu rendition of Love Life; she claimed never to have sung it before.
To top off the day, I learned that another song of mine's being done in London. I've had songs in many a cabaret show there over the past 16 months, and a whole show hit the British boards in November.
Meanwhile, I'm rewriting Such Good Friends - probably the third or fourth new draft since NYMF, and starting on a new show that's a radical departure from everything I've done before (no piano, for one thing).
