May 11
Random pop culture trivia I learned today: Paul Simon’s collaborator on the 1997 Broadway musial The Capeman was St. Lucian Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. The show flopped bigtime; Walcott said, in the aftermath,
I’m proud of what I wrote and of the music Paul created. It was a terrific experience personally and the music really articulated an island experience. I sort of pulled out of it close to the end, though, because I didn’t like what was happening. The process itself was happy for me and I still think something will happen with it in the future.