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Mar 12, 2020Mar 11, 2020

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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Feb 21, 2018Feb 20, 2018

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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