DR ChasSmith, Mirette was in summer 1998 at Goodspeed. It's a lovely score that needed a lot of work on the book, and the book writer seemed lost at Goodspeed. I ran into jher at the bakery one morning and asked her how she was enjoying East Haddam. She said she was bored, and I was tempted to ask, why don't you fix your script? The director, the late not-so-great Andre Ernotte, treated Tom and Harvey very badly, and they behaved like perfect gentlemen to his nasty taunts. He was quite ugly, and - I suspect - jealous of their success.
At the first band rehearsal, I still didn't know if we would have a harpist, and Dan DeLange, the assistant conductor, played the part on a synth. I think Harvey may have been the person who suggested and negotiated the alternating harpists.
And, yes, you can tell the story.