I guess people know my admiration for Stritch . I even had "stritchfan" as my twitter handle until my twiiter was hacked [amid the online nonsense, it seems] and lost as my handle last October.
If it's Ok, here's my salute to Stritch - which I put yesterday afternoon way down in the comments box under Stephen Holden's Times article, the article which is at:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/03/a-notable-audience-for-elaine-stritch-at-the-carlyle/Tune of I Never Know When to Say When -
based a bit loosely on Mr. Holden's touching, insight-filled article, though of course Mr. Holden is obliged to deal with what he sees as the flaws for benefit of people paying the very high prices at the Carlyle for the rest of the run
[Stritch]
I’m having fun in here
A well-sold run in here
Look by the bar, seems every star knows I’m not done in here
They hang on every turn of phrase, every rhyme
That says there’s never a time to call time
I may not toe a line
And I may blow a line
But they don’t jeer, I make them cheer when I forego a line
If I get controversial, it’s so sublime
No, there is never a time to call time
No getting old ain’t no crime
There’s never a time to call time
