I've just learned that DADDY LONG LEGS, the gem of a musical by John Caird and Paul Gordon, will close in NYC on the 6th of June. I learned this from our leading lady Megan McGinnis, from whom I've found out almost everything there has ever been to find out about our sweet show in all its incarnations, in all its cities. I even had to rely on her a time or two to discover if I was actually going to be employed in my usual post as associate director on a few productions. But l

Just when I think I've had enough of the lauding, the loving, the incessant talking-about and the hype, I have another listen to the cast recording of HAMILTON and I'm exponentially more smitten than before. The rhymes and rhythms! The beat! The exquisite economy of story-telling, character development and relationships! It comes at you so loud and pure and raw and nuanced and rich and refined all at once. And then there is the granular humor and the quotes of other musicals