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I hope you missed me--I missed myself! I've been awfully busy lately (i.e. too busy to post), as I have (a) successfully mounted the run of my latest musical, Bootie and the Beast, followed by (b) coming down with the most persistent cold (I've nicknamed it "Javert"), that's only now starting to retreat. We featured the song "Hygge" from the musical Frozen in our show (our shows are assemblage, incorporating extant songs with a brand-new script). I still can't pronounce it (

To quote the musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood (which I had the pleasure of appearing in twice, both times as drug-addicted choir master John Jasper, for those of you who don't think I have a 'type'), "There are two men in me," and no, it's not dirty. Poor John Jasper is sometimes a kind, caring avuncular type, and at other times a raving maniac. (Note that the Dicken's novel upon which this was based came out a full 16 years prior to Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, but clearly in