Good morning, all! When I woke, I was having a peculiar dream about Rodgers & Hart's flop castration musical CHEE-CHEE. I was involved with a reading of it at the York Theatre, and it had been decided to record the show. So, I was trying to convnce my friends at the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization to let us record the show with the original orchestrations instead of piano accompaniment. The sections of the dream I remember now are auditions and talking to someone about possibly recording orchestra tracks in Europe. And "Moon of My Delight," one of my fave Rodgers & Hart songs, kept running through my mind. The original score for that number is missing from the CHEE-CHEE scores at R&H, and I'm convinced that John McGlinn stole it from the archive in the early 1980s. I have a memory of Meg Bussert singing it around 1985 in a Gershwin-Rodgers & Hart concert that McGlinn conducted in Danbury, CT, and he had access to the full score to copy the number. However, the missing score did not turn up in the McGlinnventory, although one of the original Chinese-inspired paper covers that all of the scores are protected by did turn up. Hmmmmm. Coincidence? I think not.
Today, some writing, some tax work, some DVDs.