Taking A Walk

He decided to take a good long walk to clear his head. He was having a major brain freeze.  Because of the brain freeze he couldn't come up with any new. So he grabbed his jacket and scarf and headed to the subway station. He only had to wait a few minutes before the train in to Manhattan came. As he was sitting on the train he decided to head for Central Park. Years ago he use to live across from Central Park. He had moved to LA and then to Palm Springs. Palm Springs was OK but every summer there were wild fires to deal with. So he still kept the house there. But decided to get himself an apartment in Brooklyn. He bought himself a K2 bicycle for cycling into the city and around Brooklyn. Then he went totally crazy as his friend Marty said and he bought himself a four door 2013  red Land Rover Defender. Marty thought he was crazy driving it all the way cross country with two dogs. But he made it back to his old stomping grounds of Brooklyn New York in one piece. Adrienne still lived in Mill Valley. Marty and Enoch live in the LA area. While Bruce and Jack stayed in New York City. Brooklyn felt like home to him. So he was glad to be back in the city that never sleeps as Frank Sinatra sang in the song New York New York. Earlier in the day Adrienne sent him a texts message tell him to watch The Insider. Because pop singer B. A. Murphy was coming out. B.A. Murphy was a real winner. He wore very tacky clothes on stage. He pranced all over the stage like a peacock. Barry thought thank goodness I didn't get into show business. Or at least on  stage end of show business. Barry sort of was in show business considering he was a songwriter. Barry had written scores for many Broadway musical and for a few motion pictures. In three months his motion picture Copacabana was going to have it's premier in New York City. Copacabana started as a musical in London's West End in 1995. Then it came to Pittsburgh's Benedum Center June  2000   where it did it's first regional. The second regional was in Los Angeles at the Ahmanson  Theatre January 2001. Cameron Macintosh  saw it when Copacabana came back to LA for a tour of major US cities. Cameron loved it so much when he saw it in LA. So much that he asked Barry, Bruce and Jack if he could turn it into a major motion picture musical. To which both Barry, Bruce and Jack were over the moon about.

Thinking!

Barry got off the subway train and head to Central Park. While in Central Park he headed to the place where all the food trucks were parked. Ah there it was the fried dounut truck.. Man he loved those fried cinnamon apple dounuts they made. He also got a coup of coffee to go with it. Barry found a bench to sit on while he ate his donut and drank his coffee. Barry couldn't believe that recording artist B.A. Murphy did a 360 degree turn. Wearing raunchy   clothes and coming out of the closet was not a good move for a recording artist who fan base was mainly women. OH well to each his own Barry thought. After the premier of Harmony Barry and Bruce's musical turned into a motion picture. Barry had another premier to go to. This one was on Broadway at the St. James Theatre where his new musical Here At The Mayflower was going to open in the fall of 2015. He wrote Here At The Mayflower with lyricists Adrienne Anderson, Bruce Sussman, Enoch Anderson and Marty Panzer who also wrote the book. HATM as it was called dealt with an apartment building in Brooklyn NY and the tenants who lived there. "So many windows. So many walls. Double locked doors down carpeted halls. Somebodies crying somebody calls Do you know who living next door? Right here at the Mayflower." There was the old couple Esther and Joe, Freddie the elevator operator, Diane the receptionists, Ken the mechanic and all the rest. Marty, Adrienne and Enoch were coming from CA for the premier. While Bruce and Jack would come by cab for the premier since they lived here in the city. Barry couldn't believe he got Lorna Luft to play Esther and Joseph Bologna to play Joe. Diane Degarmo was going to play Diane. Ace Young was playing Ken. Barry's iPhone began to ring. So he answered it. Hello he said. Hi Barry it's Marc. Marc Hulett was Barry's manager and dear friend. So what's up Marc said Barry. Marc said I've got you booked for a couple of talk shows next week. Your doing Rachel Ray on Monday. In fact you're her co-host for the whole hour. GMA is on Tuesday. Then The View is on Friday. That's because it's Guy Day Friday and your sitting in with the co-hosts for hot topics and etc. Should be fun said Barry. I guess you heard about B.A. Murphy Marc said Barry. Yeah said Marc I heard all about the stuff he did. I bet his manager is ready to kill him said Marc. Peeing on some one's tires is not a good thing to do. Being drunk is also not a good thing to do said Barry. Well I'll let you go said Barry. OK Barry bye for now and I'll talk to you soon said Marc. Barry hung up with Marc.