Carrnivale Theatrics' INTO THE WOODS performed at the New Hazlett Theater in Pittsburgh

“If the End Is Right, It Justifies…the Beans.”

Carrnivale Theatrics is putting on a great performance of Stephen Sondheim’s INTO THE WOODS right now. I’ll get to it.

“I wish!”
Showtunes. An alien world to me, or at least they were, as the saying goes, “once upon a time.”

“Near may be better than far, but it still isn’t here.”

I have been a music freak all my life. People don’t display their music collections anymore, not in these days of downloads and mp3’s, but it used to be that if you were to invite me into your home, if I saw a music collection, I would head straight for it and instantly form an implacable judgment of you based entirely on your taste in music.

“None would run from us….Yet one has.”

I spent several of my younger years living in a several communal situations, giving me endless opportunities to form snap musical judgments. For a variety of irrelevant reasons, however, it took me a while to have much to do with the greasepaint crowd, but then this one new guy moved in, with box after box of… showtunes.
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