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One Day More

Also known as Thursday. On this day in 1987, Les Miserables opened at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre and would play for more than 4,000 performances. To date, I think I’ve seen the stage version of this show six times. It may be five. I’m old and my last math class was when Richard Nixon was still …

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To laugh…

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it. American journalist and author, Erma Bombeck, was born on this day in 1927 (died 1996). Erma Bombeck was a master at making us laugh about the absurdities, and the trials, of life. A one-woman play Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End, largely pulled from Bombeck’s …

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