Bart, Annie and Tom Meehan

I've previously written about my involvement in some musicals. The inspiration to write about this I got from my favorite blogger Bart Boehlert with his blog Bart Boehlert’s Beautiful Things. He described a visit to the musical A Little Night Music at Brodway. When I read this post, I took courage and wrote an email to Bart because I earlier wrote a comment on his blog. I wanted to explain to him that I don’t have English as my native language so I asked him to be lenient if I spell wrong or use the wrong word. In this letter I also wrote about my little experience with musicals. I waited tensely. But I got an answer and it also contained a big surprise. It turned out that Bart was familiar with the writer of the musical Annie, Tom Meehan!

I picked up the program again and when I looked properly I saw his name. But on the theater program that I saved was the name Th. Meehan on the front. When I googled for Tom Meehan, I realized that Th meant Thomas. I also read that he wrote The Producers and Hairspray. Isn’t that fantastic!

These pics are not from Brodway, but I think you can guess who the role characters are.

"The sun will come out, tomorrow.." Isn't that a very recent text that also fits today.

This was one of my favorite scenes, when Miss Hannigan curtsied for President Roosevelt.

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