"We'll never be as young
as we are right now.
Those good girls never
know what they're missing,
but us bad girls almost always do.
And what we're missing now
is a real good time.
I want it bad,
and I want it now.
We were born going
faster than the limits allow."

(From ALW's Whistle Down the Wind -- I'm the only person I know who ever saw it, but I suspect a few others saw it in London like me, or during the week or so it was on Broadway)

I am the very model of
a modern major general...


(wishful thinking, with apologies to
the late Messrs. G&S)

scary.... we just finished our run of Pirates last Friday night.

Poor wondering one
though thou has surely strayed
take heart of grace
my steps retrace
poor wondering one

A wandering minstrel I —
A thing of shreds and patches,
Of ballads, songs and snatches,
And dreamy lullaby!

Are you in sentimental mood...I'll sigh with you. Oh, sorrow.



(I will play Katisha one day before I die...)

(Another tidbit - the Grad student that played Katisha - a contralto role - when I was in the Mikado in college went on the next year to play The Queen of the Night - a coloratura soprano role... odd, no?)

"Kiss me to fiercely,
Hold me too tight."

And if I'm lonely, doesn't matter. I think there's worse than being lonely. They's people who freeze while they wait on their knees and they don't know for what and they just been forgot. And I aint waiting no more. You just wait forever if you can't say what for. The day come soon, I'll pack up the nothing I own. And I'll live in my house and I'll make it ok, by myself, all alone.

"Give me a head with hair,
Long, beautiful hair..."

A Captain with seven children, what's so fearsome about that?

"Why'd you choose such a backward time
In such a strange land?"

I have a little list
of those who won't be missed

"Kill the witch..."

Ding dong the Witch is dead.

Ask me how do I feel, little me with my quiet upbringing.
Well sir, all I can say is if gate I'd be swinging!
And if I were a watch I'd start popping my springs!
Or if I were a bell I'd go ding dong, ding dong ding!

Silly me, but I wish, as folks walk by...they'd stop and see me, say hi.