Showdown

This morning, Plotnik is working feverishly to get through the new, entire Perfect Pitch, listening to waves of each song, emailed by a complicated electronic process from a recording studio in Denver, to get ready for a showdown telephone meeting at 2pm with his writing partner in Aspen. Plot has figured out a way to salvage this musical, but only if his partner agrees to slice and dice. Sadly, it is not likely to happen.

It is fascinating for Plotnik to listen to music he co-wrote a quarter of a century ago. (BZWZ appears on the tapes as a two-day old baby.) All these years later, the music has gone from new to old to retro and back to sounding new again, and Plotnik would love to be able to put the magic wand to it. He knows how. He didn't know how in 1983 but he does know how in 2008.

But his partner is still clinging to his vision from long ago. Plot gave up fighting about this show once, and he can do it again. But the stuff that sounds great really sounds great! So...we'll see. We'll see. We'll see.