You’re a know-it-all

Oh, hi friends!

Considering something? Can’t decide whether to do X or Y?

You already know the answer.

But what about this factor or that factor?

You already know the answer.

But what if it doesn’t work out?

You still already know the answer. What you actually want to do.

(I am being persistent because I've found this is almost always true.)

Committing to the answer is the hard part. But you can still decide today.

A fingernail of moon/ And night will light up soon.

"The only chance you have to be happy is being willing to take chances."

Broadway producer/director/legend Hal Prince died last week — he’s responsible for bringing many of the greatest musicals to the stage over his 70-year career.

In a strange coincidence, I bought his memoir last month because I’m doing a workshop through the New York Public Library called Across a Crowded Room, where composers and lyricists team up to write 20-minute musicals over the summer. Our prompt this year was to write a story that takes place in the same era as a Hal Prince show. So my composer and I are writing a musical that takes place in 1880 Vienna (the same period as Hal’s last musical, Paradise Found), fictionalizing an encounter between Hans Makart, the most famous painter at the time, and Sisi, the Empress of Austria. (Gonna need to research…a lot.)

The workshop leaders showed us this quote on Saturday, scrawled by Hal on a piece of paper, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since.

The only chance you have to be happy is being willing to take chances.

Hope Hal’s words are as meaningful to you as they are to me.

Love these creative renditions of Van Gogh’s “Starry Night” from object arranger @witenry! (h/t Jenn Haltman) And I just now realized this newsletter might have too much night? Nah. *hits send*

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Thanks, as always, for reading.

Love, Kara