Sondheim in the Park with Mickey

Space Mountain? That was somebody’s answer, but they deleted it. Good call.

It’s not something as blah as merely somebody singing “Comedy Tonight” as a generic show opener. (“Comedy Tonight” is, however, the traditional generic MHL opener; if you haven’t seen O’C as Zero Mostel, you’re really missing something. How many other tournaments are you aware of where the directors show up in togas?) I would love it to be an audioanimatronic Minnie Mouse singing “I’m Still Here” (she has, indeed, been through Herbert and J. Edgar Hoover), and I would be rather fond of the Main Street Barbershop going under the new management of S. Todd, right next store to the pie shop, but it’s neither of those, I’m afraid. And while you haven’t lived until you’ve seen the Hoop-De-Doo version of “Company,” I’m afraid that’s not it either, as that particular version closed out of town, for which we “Company” fans are eternally grateful. It's not even something as natural as a take from "Into the Woods," although that, actually, would make sense.

Space Mountain?

If you’re a big enough Disney Geek, you start acquiring park soundtracks. You won’t hear this on the WDW soundtrack, but you will hear it on the uncut Disneyland soundtrack (6 disks!). Somewhere along with “How Do You Do?” and “Laughing Place” and “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” you will hear something called “Burrow’s Lament,” which is in fact “Sooner or Later,” which means that O’C’s instincts were at least right, if not his placement. Presumably there’s an audioanimatronic Madonna in the briar patch there somewhere…

Speaking of the MHL, after much head-banging, we have decided that the Monticello event, the first weekend of November, will run the Sept-Oct topic. The more I thought about it, the more sense it made. O’C holding a machete across my throat telling me to change it or die had no effect on my decision at all.

Space Mountain? What are these people thinking, anyhow? Whether that's a rip on Disney, or a rip on Sondheim, is hard to figure. Oh, well. At least they didn't think that SS wrote "It's a Small World." As a matter of fact, I would guess that when SS has nightmares, "It's a Small World" plays a considerable part in them.

Meanwhile, does anyone other than my mother like the Country Bears?