“You wonder how these things begin…” (Jerry Orbach, The Fantasticks) and, from a different part of Music Man, “Cracker barrel went out the window with the Mail Pouch cut plug chawin’ by the stove…” and ff.

When I led a Winter session London Theatre trip w/ George Mason University, we always began with a tour led by a Blue Badge guide. The first one (2013) was led by a gent named Michael who let slip that he had been in Les Mis for several years. The students paid closer attention after that. So, yes.

¡Feliz cumple!

Watched it on July 4th and had the same surge of hope. Now we wait… and keep raising awareness of the film!

Vive Racine’

Václav Havel. The accent mark for respect, even if it adds nothing phonological for the English speaker.

One of the several oddly useful things I remember from college Latin (thank you Dan Taylor) is that the final m is a marker of the accusative case in most Indo-European languages, even sometimes in beautiful, disorderly English. Now and again that helps me with whom.

Also perhaps the assonance of “its” and “hills,” not to mention the haunting power of the possessive. (What’s up with “not to mention” anyway?)

The rehearsal room looks like a “New Stagecraft” set design from 20-30 years in the future. Maybe for An Enemy of the People… or some Gorky play.

Something about a rat-wife.

As Lady B. might put it…