49 Years Ago, Today................

                                         Can you believe that next year will mark 50 years?

                                        Girls, this has always been a special day for me, when my father and I saw the Original Company of "A Chorus Line," at the Shubert Theatre.  It was groundbreaking for its time, and brutally realistic about aspirations toward dance in musical theater.  Those realities still hold, which is why the show has a timelessness to it, and which I hope will get some sort of revival in its 50th year.

                                             And then there was Donna McKechnie, whom I had never heard of then, but never forgot after.  I have never seen anyone dance like that in my lifetime, and probably never will again.  I feel so proud just to have been there.

                                               My father lived to 102, dying in 2018.  To the end, we often talked about that special day, when we saw "A Chorus Line," which I will always remember.

                                See this, darlings?  This is why Donna McKechnie became a star!  And I bet she could still do this tonight!