2012

Feb. 22 -- LUNCH AT THE PICCADILLY, a reading of the musical, at the York Theatre, NYC.
Feb. 3-19 -- OIL CITY SYMPHONY -- Festival Stage of Winston Salem, Winston Salem, NC -- -- with Mary Murfitt, Molly Wassermann and Randy Glass

"Work isn't art until enough noise is made about it, until someone rich comes along and buys it." ---Alfred Stieglitz

"There is a solitude which each and every one of us has carried, more inaccessible than the ice cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea - the solitude of self. Our inner being, which we call our self, no eye or touch of man or angel has ever pierced." ---Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"The artist's life is the best in the world, if you can get through the first 40 years." ---Thomas Hart Benton

"Don't play what you know, but what you hear." ---Miles Davis

"What joy awaits discovery in the silence behind the portals of your mind no human tongue can tell." ---Yogananda

"Who would want to break into the music business? It's like a bank that's already been robbed." ---Randy Newman

"Not to know what happened before you were born is always to be a child." ---Cicero

"London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people or the serious people produce the fogs, I do not know!" ---Oscar Wilde

On post-WW2 America, from 1945-1950: "For the first time, the US was not involved in a war. The Depression was over. Suddenly, there were 13 million of us who'd served in the military and were home. There was a cultural burst that Americans had never known before: we became number one for things like ballet. We had dozens of first-rate poets, several not so bad novelists, wonderful music, Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland. It was a great moment, and it lasted for five years. Then the Korean War came, and we've never stopped being at war since. ---Gore Vidal, from the IMDB

"We had individuality. We did as we pleased. We stayed up late. We dressed the way we wanted. I used to whiz down Sunset Boulevard in my open Kissel, with several red Chow dogs to match my hair. Today, they're sensible and end up with better health. But we had more fun." ---Clara Bow, on Hollywood, then and now

"I cannot unbuckle the Bible belt. That is why I will never write my memoirs." ---Louise Brooks, from WHY BE GOOD?: SEXUALITY & CENSORSHIP

"I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it." ---Colette

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds, nineteen shillings and sixpence, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds and sixpence, result misery." ---Charles Dickens, DAVID COPPERFIELD

"Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backward." ---Soren Kierkegaard

"God preserve us from generalizations. There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble." --- Anton Chekhov

"The best way to find out about a man is to have lunch with his ex-wife." --- Shelley Winters