FOLLOW YOUR STAR • • • • •   In high school, I wrote a script for a proposed musical play. As I explained it in a letter to a college friend in June of 1966: Our Richwood High School Mixed Chorus may not have been the best in Ohio, but we did have a reputation for putting on an excellent production of a Broadway musical every spring — My Fair Lady, Annie Get Your Gun, South Pacific. Unfortunately, the music director left for a bigger school in 1962, and the next fellow had a little trouble carrying on the tradition.  We had a particularly bad production of Pal Joey in 1964:  poor direction, inept acting, and a weak story line that was even immoral in places.  [A quote about the antihero from Richard Rodgers, who wrote the music:  "Joey was not disreputable because he was mean, but because he had too much imagination to behave himself."] After that, a friend of mine, Terry Rockhold, and I decided we could write a better musical ourselves if we just borrowed a few songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein.  We had a fairly well-developed idea for a story line, dealing with something that was bothering us at the time (and still is) but that has never been discussed openly enough.  [One of the characters had begun to seriously doubt his religion.]  R&H could take care of the musical end of it. The one big advantage of this plan was that it would make it possible for the Chorus to get out of the red:  no royalties to pay and no elaborate sets to construct. Although the musical numbers were not original, sometimes I wrote original lyrics, such as those you’ll find in the following articles: Need It Be Said I Do Not Need a Cure Antihymeneal Hymns However, the production never got beyond our sketches.  Instead, during our senior year of high school the Chorus presented Brigadoon.