A "Preview" of Gift of the Magi

[Steve Schenck]

I just found this in the San Diego Union Tribune. It's not a review of the already-opened work, but a kind of preview interview with Burt and Steve Sater, the composer/lyricist team. Let's all be looking to find reviews and post them, please! If it does really well it could come to Broadway. Someone already posted the "This Christmas" song from the show, and I really like it. As is so typical with Burt's music, the more I hear it the more it grows on me, and I appreciate the fullness of what's there.

http://www.union-trib.com/news/2011/dec ... =1#article

[An Enormous BB Fan]

Interesting article, thanks!

I found it interesting to hear him admit how he hated the Broadway show of his songs and that other show of his songs. I found it interesting because I could not imagine him liking those shows. His music isn't meant to be sung that way.

I also loved when he said without fresh inspiration, “...you get fat, you stay put, you don’t move forward. You’re standing still.” I loved it because Burt, at 83 years of age, still has such drive and desire to create great music. I love that about him so much. That's why, when someone suggested that Burt take it easy, I wrote that that would be anathema to Burt. Burt still is a very young man inside, and I just love the fact that he has such burning desire to move forward, just as he did decades and decades ago.

And to quote someone else here, "Burt is unreal!"

[Roberto Pinardi]

From Facebook page Steven Sater:

http://broadwayworld.com/videoplay.php?colid=313182

Bye

Rob