The hard work of creating …

… About Last Night | Two blue moons. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… the longer I worked on Satchmo, the more clearly I saw its flaws, and the more I doubted my ability to fix them. The only thing that kept me going was that once I’d spent a year polishing Satchmo, everyone who read the revised script wanted to produce it. Had I hit a blank wall of disapproval at that point, I probably would have succumbed to my nagging doubts and given up.

Very good for us all that he stuck it out. Satchmo  is a terrific evening of theater.