Sherman Yellen Quotations

The people there truly love musicals. They have a passion for them that lifts everyone's spirits.

This was the last song I wrote with Wally shortly before he died. He loved humor, particularly bawdy humor, and this song certainly has that.

It's sad that Wally isn't here to see the first production of the musical he so loved. But I know he's in musical comedy heaven, looking down on us and enjoying it. He always felt this day would come, and he was right.

In this audition scene, she is forced to face the hard reality that all her talents mean little -- unless she is prepared to do jungle numbers. Although we deal with the racial strife of the period, the show is primarily concerned with Josephine's journey as an artist and a woman. It's very much an entertainment filled with romance and humor, and not a polemic.