Good morning to one and all! I went to bed at 9:00 last night and slept rather well until 6:00 this morning. My day is rather uneventful:laundry, tidying up the apartment, and dealing with the pile of work on my desk.
I think we're offering the role of Harry in DEAREST ENEMY to my friend Hal Cazalet, who sang Captain Ladislaw on the John McGlinn recording (never released) of THE LADY OF THE SLIPPER. If he accepts, we'll have most of our cast. I'm going to put a plug in here for Hal's recording with Sylvia McNair; it's a collection of songs with lyrics by Hal's great-grandfather, P.G. Wodehouse, and it's quite wonderful, including the lyrivs Wodehouse house wrote for the London production of ANYTHING GOES.
Yesterday I received the out of print Richard Rodgers book Letters To Dorothy and last night I read the letters dealing with the period of 1926-1930. I've been wanting to read this book for some time. I'm also finishing up the new biography of James Kirkwood and in the middle of The Terror, dealing with the French Revlution and its aftermath, which I carry with me for travel reading.
TOD:
DVD: Jeez, the three Netflix items still sit here and I got from England the BFI print of THE DEVILS
CD: Hal Cazalet's recording of Wodehouse songs, Guy Haines, John Wilson's proms
VCR: wow!