GENE KELLY IN THE MGM MUSICAL "SINGING IN THE RAIN"
Today we remember two great artists. One was Gene Kelly whose 95th birthday would have been today.
Gene's last picture was "Xanadu" --which was a total flop back in the 1980's but looks to be a huge hit on Broadway today. I'm sure Gene is smiling at that one. Today is the day that we lost Oscar Hammerstein at age sixty-five. What an amazing crafter of language that combined with the music of his collaborators: Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern and others will last forever. Richard Rodgers never had another Broadway smash after Oscar died even though he worked with some of the greatest lyricists in the business including Alan Jay Lerner and Martin Charnin. Some collaborations are made in heaven I suppose. My newest collaborator, John Nugent is on his way to California and will arrive on Labor Day. Let us hope that this will be a fruitful and blessed meeting. John and I writing a musical spoof and satire together called "Seven" What might happen if at the start of the Millenium the Deadly Sins thought it was up to them to take over evil in the world once the devil gets locked up for a thousand years! It's a fun story and I have great hopes for it!
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