To mark the publication of my first book, ROUND IN CIRCLES, The Story of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s CAROUSEL, I have renamed and revamped my website. Whilst I will continue to blog about the things that interest me, I also want to share some of my experiences over the twelve years I spent writing the book and to talk further about some of the incredible people I encountered along the way.
The first such piece is, “It Seemed a Good Idea at the Time”.
Music has played an important part in my life since childhood, particularly musical theatre, something I inherited from my parents. My tastes though, go much further, so I enjoy listening to all kinds of music from Beethoven and Brahms to the Beatles and Buddy Holly. I am an avid reader and a keen amateur photographer.
I am fascinated by politics, though I find myself appalled at the state of the current, global political landscape.
I am also a lifelong Spurs fan.
When something excites me I like to express my feelings, and this blog hopefully, will enable me to share those thoughts with a wider audience.
I do hope you find it interesting.
ROUND IN CIRCLES 
I am just reading your book and it is great you are like me, since about the age of 13 The Musical partnership of Rodgers & Hammerstein has been my avocation, starting with the film of ‘The Sound Of Music’ which was released in the year I was born 1965, and working backwards ,my love of their entire collaboration has gone on for the last 46 years. In 1999 I was fortunate with help from the late David Jacobs to send my critique of their partnership to Richard Rodgers’ daughter Mary who was in London doing a 6 part radio series on BBC radio 2 of her father’s and Oscar Hammerstein’s collaboration and also received a personal reply from Mary herself, which I am told was very unusual and have treasured it ever since. although you were fortunate to do what I never did to actually me Richard Rodgers in person.
I know Mary gave many interviews about her father and made no apologies that he wasn’t always a very nice man, but who is ? I can only imagine being the genius he was with all that music flowing around his brain that his life couldn’t have always been rosy for him, and I feel that geniuses are never the most stable of people anyway.
The book you have written about ‘Carousel’ should be the sort of book that should be written about each one of their shows including ‘Allegro’ ‘Me and Juliet’ and ‘Pipe Dream’
I thought I knew nearly everything there was to know about ‘Carousel’ but happily I have learnt even more about it than I thought possible thanks to you.