ABSTRACT
I was sitting in a piano bar, … and I had read earlier that day, Virgil Thomson I think, commenting on Charles Ives’ songbook of 114 songs of all kinds … and I thought, I could do something like that. And I had been thinking it would be good to get into the world of musicals, and probably easiest to get into it through a revue of songs … The original idea was to have the singers be drag queens. 1
