Good morning, all! I've been mostly lurking this week, most of my attention has been on the convention, and I had a great time listening to the speakers and the commentary.
My back has moments when I think it's improving, and long periods of pain during which I fear it will never heal. I have another week of ibuprofen, muscle relaxant, and some penicillin-based drug before I see my doctor again, so hopefully this week will see some sort of stabilization.
I spent an interesting couple of hours at the NY Public Library Music Collection yesterday looking at original Broadway materials on WHERE'S CHARLEY? and I found a few lyrics not in the show. I've always suspected that some of the awkward lyrics in the published vocal score were errors of Mathilde Pincus and Don Walker in 1954 when MTI assembled the show for rental purposes. Unfortunately, I could find no lyric solution in the materials I was examining.
I have to get on my soapbox, too, and state that the NYPL doesn't offer the freedom of examining cartons of files that the Library of Congress does, and to check out 10-15 folders of various manuscripts in the storage box means a constant trip to the Special Collections desk. The librarian at the desk yesterday, who is usually an amiable man, appeared to be stretched to his limit. I did a cursory check and left, so I will go back next week and continue my search. The Library of Congress, in the research I've done, usually hands me one storage carton at a time, so that I can take all the files in the carton to a table and examine everything at my liesure. And this, DRs, is why all of my ms are with the Library of Congress.
