"A Soothsayer Hath Warned, 'Beware The Ides Of March'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                            Ever since Shakespeare accorded this date as the one on which Julius Caesar was assassinated, in his classic tragi-historical play, this date has gotten a bad rap.  Granted, there has been the 2011 movie, entitled "The Ides Of March," featuring Ryan Gosling, at his most luscious.  Which helps out a lot.

                             But there is one thing, above all, that saves this day from being a total disaster, because it bucked the jinx behind the Ides of March.  On this day, in 1956, fifty eight years ago, today, a show opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre, in a day when no one thought it would ever be anything but a theater.

                              Not only was it just any show; it turned out to be one of the most groundbreaking musicals of the Twentieth Century!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                              That is right, darlings!  I am talking about "My Fair Lady."

                               To start this day right, at home, I awoke the house with a listening of the celebrated orchestral rendition of its famous Overture, one of the greatest in Musical Theater History.

                                 So, here it is, darlings!   Listen, and keep afresh the memories of a true masterwork of the musical stage!

                                   And--feh! on the Ides Of March!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!