Home from an event I wished I hadn't gone to. It was a panel about the musical of The Color Purple, a musical in know zero about. The show had THREE songwriters all doing music and lyrics - I found it weird to hear all the talk about process and this and that when that is not typical of musical theater at all and also that these folks have never written another musical before or since. The two songs we heard did not inspire me to think I would in any way like to see it. And it was two hours long, this panel - too long.