TT: The most beautiful sound in the world

I snapped this picture from the wings of the theater where Danse Russe was premiered last night by Philadelphia's Center City Opera Theater. Paul Moravec and I were waiting for the cue to take our curtain call. By then we were tired, sweaty, and immensely gratified, for it was surpassingly clear that we had a hit on our hands. Truth to tell, we knew it a few minutes after Andrew Kurtz gave the downbeat. The opening-night audience was excited and responsive right from the start--we got laughs in places where we weren't expecting them, and dead silence everywhere we wanted it--and the applause at the end of the show merely set a seal on what the laughter had already told us.

I'm too tired to write much more, having just returned to my hotel from a riotous cast party. Come back on Monday and I'll tell you all about it.