I've been working at the piano most of the evening. And trying to just not be so irritated that I take someone's head off - found out the Musical Theatre West, who does a series of staged concerts of musicals are doing Li'l Abner next year. The guy who runs it used to be my assistant at the record label we don't name. I've talked to him before about directing something and I've certain mentioned Abner. I wrote him to tell him I'd love to do it, that our production was a smash and everyone loved it - he writes back and says it's one of his faves, too, but that they've already set the director. But he heard John Massey and Maddy Parks were GREAT. I wrote him back a terse note saying our production was incredible and that I did not understand why he would do something like this, when he clearly knows we were a smash. What a jerk. I suspect he'll use Massey and Maddy, and let me tell you if either of them report to me that they've used one thing, ONE thing from my production (as you know I did many things to bring the show down to two hours and make it not dated and really funny) that was of my doing, I will ridicule these people all over the damn Internet. I'm just disgusted.
