Darling Of The Day
I listened to a new musical the other day. Or rather, a half-century old musical, but new to me. Darling Of The Day , by the somewhat unexpected team of E.Y. Harburg and Jule Styne, ran for a month on Broadway in 1968, and since then has more or less faded into obscurity with the occasional attempts to revive it generally being met with indifference. And after listening to it and studying a bit, I can see why. It's not that great. It's not bad. It's just sort of fine. But I still want to talk about it. I was trying to think of a good reason to talk about it. Then I remembered that this is my blog, and I can just talk about things if I want. So here's a write-up of Darling Of The Day . (Cast album available on Spotify and Youtube and probably other places too.) The story, in a nutshell, is about Priam Farrl, a famous painter played by Vincent Price. He is tired of being a famous painter. One day his butler dies. Vincent Price decides to fake his death with t