COOPERSTOWN
Sam Goodyear, who is returning to the Otsego Lake region from the Big Apple for the summer, had another item in the New York Times’ Metropolitan Diary the other day.
“Dear Diary:
“With all the hand-wringing about the Broadway musical in general, and a certain catastrophe-prone, opening-someday production in particular, here’s a ray of sunshine:
“I was walking along upper Broadway with a friend when a mutual acquaintance named Cindy popped up in the conversation.
“Remembering a song popular in the 1950s, I immediately began to sing out:
“‘Cindy, oh Cindy. ...’
“A well-dressed business type coming toward us picked up the tune, smiling and without breaking stride, sang:
“‘Cindy, don’t let me down. ...’
From behind, the doorman of a big apartment building:
“‘Write me a letter soon. ...’
“The notes floated up into the night air.
“And they say the Broadway musical is dead.”
Sam will resume his column writing for this newspaper on June 1, under the title, “The Music Man.”
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