Thank you all for the vibes. I've drafted an email to the Master Toymaker but I don't know if I will send it. It's quite angry and maybe says more abut my anger than anything positive. I wanted the project to work, vainly speaking, because I wanted to be a published musical theatre historian and scholar, and I wanted to parlay it into a lecturing career. I do my work well and I do it better than most. It's one of the few areas where I'm not insecure.