The legendary Mary Martin originated the part of Maria in Rogers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music.
One of the big hits from the show was a song about about raindrops on roses, bright copper kettles, schnitzel with noodles, and more of Maria’s “favorite things.”
A few of my favorite things: a scoop of vanilla on warm apple pie, any movie with Spencer Tracy, a grandchild’s smile, a check that was actually in the mail…
What are some of your favorite things?
And if you’d like to travel back to Broadway in December of 1959, and take a seat in the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, you can hear the song for yourself:
The nice weather has finally hit New England. Yay!
Do you judge a book by its cover?
It’s always fun to catch up, and we haven’t done one of these for a while, so…
What author, past or present, would you most like (or have liked) to have dinner with? You get to pick the meal. What would you select?
How many hours per day/week do you write? Ballpark.