Good morning, all! I slept reasonably well, with no memories of dreams except something about my wandering around the Village with two comedians, Alan King and Joey Bishop, maybe. It's fading very quickly.
This morning, I'm having breakfast with Susanna Moross and her husband Peter Tarjan, both wonderful friends I don't see often enough. After that, I head down to Encores! to help Joshie. Our sitzprobe is on Saturday at 3 pm, and I look forward to it.
DR John G, among the McGlinnventory I found John McGlinn's cast proposal for an EMI recording of LOVE LIFE, one of the items that fell through when his contract was expired. McGlinn was never officialy terminated by EMI, tey simply didn't renew his contract. I cannot speak for EMI, who I feel never appreciated the value of McGlinn in his desire for recording needed works over crossover casts of familiar territory, but I suspect they saw his contract expire with a sense of relief; he was a complete pain the more he began believing his own press and he indulged himself with free concert materials at their expense, which led to inquiries from the EMI production office on the music prep expenses. That said, LOVE LIFE was in the works: much, if not all, of a complete new vocal score was copied, and it was to be recorded with Thomas Hampson and Judy Kaye in the two principal roles. The only other name I remember now on the cast list was Damon Evans.
