Sunday, July 6

Leonard Bernstein

This question has been bothering me for a few days now. Perhaps as long as a week. How can you, on one day, comment disappointedly on your husband not enjoying musicals, and then, on the very next day, not know a song that come from West Side Story? I guess maybe the answer is that if your husband actually enjoyed and watched musicals with you, you would have finally seen the Sharks and Jets do battle.

2 comments:

Cheryl said...

I'm sorry. I did not grow up listening and/or watching those 'new age' musicals that seemed rampant in your childhood home, Clark. I was the youngest of 8 and had to watch what was being played. Now, if you let Julia do a little dance to "Singing in the Rain" or "Tapioca," I'd know exactly where it came from and wouldn't have to Google it.

Oh, and I wasn't complaining. I was just stating the difference in his view of musicals and mine.

Obviously your view of musicals involves gang fights and re-made Shakespearean classics. Which is also fine.

Anonymous said...

I don't remember us ever watching musicals. Unless you count Annie. Clark did watch way more than his fair share of Annie and Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang.