Tuesday, March 20, 2001

Look at these jazz hands!

The touring company of the musical The Civil War -- or, as I like to call it, "Up With All People Being Created Equal" -- opened tonight in St. Louis. This led a couple of us to wonder, "What might a show tune based on Lincoln's Gettysburg Address sound like?"

We decided it would be something akin to the theme song from Gilligan's Island. No, really. Try it...

"Fourscore and seven years ago

our fathers brought forth on

this continent a new nation..."

...and so on.

OK, perhaps it works better after a few beers.