Things To Come

I just got the latest edition of Chicago's Law School Record, where they keep you up on the latest.  This includes class notes, so I quickly checked if they had anything to say about the city's new mayor Lori Lightfoot, class of '89.

There was a paragraph about her running, but as it was written before the February election (that's a long lead time) they didn't yet know the outcome.  Actually, it's sort of fun to read something looking toward the future when you already know the outcome. (The best/worst example of this in recent times may be from Vanity Fair's editor Graydon Carter when he wrote a piece assuming Trump would lose that wasn't out on the stands till after the election.)

When I put down the law school publication, I picked up a hardcover copy I'd borrowed from the library of the musical She Loves Me.  The score is by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick.  Here's part of their description from the dust jacket:

While working on She Loves Me, they also prepared a new musical based on Sholem Aleichem's Tevye's Daughters for forthcoming production.

She Loves Me was a charming, well-reviewed show that ran almost a year and lost money.  Their next show, referred to above, opened in 1964.  It was Fiddler On The Roof and it ran forever.  I get the feeling future inner sleeves noted this show more emphatically.