DRNoel, great shot! DRJane is right, though. While it's closer to the man I met than your old shot, it's more introspective and not as ebullient as I found you to be.
Well, I'm reading the new Mordden book, and frustrated by his errors in fact:
on page 130-131, discussing Bill Tynes' New Amsterdam Theatre Company, there are several errors: SWEET ADELINE's original orchestra parts were in archive at Tams-Witmark; SALLY was presented in the spring 1987, after Bill's death in Jan 1987, by his successor Sally Hassenfelt.
Re the p. 131 footnote on JUBILEE, not only was Russell Bennett's orchestration lost, but everything was lost so I constructed new vocal score, vocal and dance arrangements, as well as the orchestration. Ethan should know: he has/had a copy of the new vocal score in my hand. Also, I've never heard of the finding of a few original wind parts, but I have seen the one surviving carton of materials from the St Louis Muny, which is the vanishing point of the original materials: some ballet music from Gluck, a few other pars, but I don't recall anything remotely original. It was around 7 years ago that I examined the carton with Roberta Staats, of the Cole Porter Trust, so maybe I'm wrong?
