I listened to Drat! The Cat! straight through yesterday. It had been several years since I'd heard it, and it was a pleasure.
I was following the score I've had here from some long-ago capture on the internet, from way back when I first started finding scores online. What an interesting hodge-podge it is, both in style of manuscript and in how much musical information is given (or not) in each style. I'd be fascinated to know who did the various sections, and how that all came about, if BK or DR Elmore happens to know.
I (note to self: third consecutive paragraph starting with 'I'?) am also taken with the liner note by Ira Levin, as to that notebook he couldn't find, which was practically a diary of the show's conception and birthing pains. Did that notebook ever see the light of day in the intervening years? What a goldmine. Hell, I still agonize over my high school senior year diary that was lost decades ago. And who in the world cares about that? Only I. But Ira Levin's show diary???
