There Are Times When I

As The Book Writer For One Big Smash And One Big Smelly Flop, I Always Wondered If Anyone Knows Just What Goes Into Making A Great Musical. When A Show Is A Hit, The Critics Trip Over Themselves Not Knowing Who To Laud And Applaud The Loudest. It's That Marvelous Score, Those Urbane Lyrics, That Irreplaceable Star. But Only When A Show Is A Flop, Does Anyone Notice The Book Writer. And Then It's Always Our Fault.

Anyone With A Smart Phone Is A Potential Eyewitness Cameraman Capturing And Transmitting Stories At Speeds That Turn Reuter Photos And Traditional Reporting Into, Well... Yesterday’s News.

A Child's Kiss Is Magic. Why Else Would They Be So Stingy With Them?

I Got The Regular Call, That They Were Doing A Broadway Musical Of Hairspray, And Would I Come And Audition. I Was Familiar With The Movie, Because At The Time It Came Out My Lover Wrote For Premiere Magazine, And We Had To See Everything.

The World Is Full Of More Interesting Things Than My Voice.