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until then, you can still access the original site here.
we’ll be celebrating thanksgiving with our good friends dan and cheryl dunson at their lovely home in connecticut where we are lucky to be frequent guests … i penned this a while ago, but feel it every time we visit there …
i’m happy to share the news that henry krieger and i have been commissioned by the kennedy center to write a new musical as part of their upcoming japan festival which will happen in february … it’s called
thanks to the director amon miyamoto, henry krieger and i have a commission from the kennedy center to adapt the japanese story (well-known there) “boonah, the tree-climbing frog” into a musical for a japan festival they are doing this upcoming february … the idea for the following lyric, which is the opening number of the show, came from amon, who thought it reflects the general attitude both here and in japan these days …