šŸ“š Quite enjoying James Lapineā€™s new book ā€œPutting It Togetherā€, about how he and Stephen Sondheim created ā€œSunday in the Park with Georgeā€. He interviewed almost everyone involved and itā€™s fascinating to hear the story in all the different voices.

I guess the pandemic probably delayed it for a year or so, but looks like weā€™ve hit the ā€œhire a babysitter to go out for the nightā€ stage. Not sure the full weight of that realization had hit me yet.

Guys and Dolls, adjusted for inflation (from 1933): the $1 “solid gold watch” would be $21.44 today. Harry the Horse collected the $5,000 reward on his father (also Sky Masterson’s raindrop bet), over $100k today. $1,000 for the crap game at Joey Biltmore’s garage: >$21,000.

Apple Music’s Halloween Classical playlist has Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy on it. I guess it’s a little mysterious sounding?