Post by Beagle July 6, 2012 (1 of 3)
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I'd never heard of Gordon Getty but the disc artwork piqued my curiosity; here's what I found:
LA TIMES, March 19, 1988
"Business is just my avocation," Gordon Getty says. "Music is my vocation." That may surprise those who recognize Getty only as the multimillionaire son of oil magnate J. Paul Getty, and it may surprise those critics who have suggested--some none too subtly--that Getty's compositions are performed only in expectation of substantial patronage. -- John Henken
Getty Jr does seem to be first and foremost a businessman and, according to Wikipedia, PlumpJack was a wine store, then a winery, a hotel cum resort, 5 restaurants and 2 retail clothing stores financed by Getty -- before it was a musical.
So, what is Plump Jack the musical? Nothing less than an addition to the oeuvre of Shakespeare: a new Falstaff play -- but with music: http://mbe187.music.utexas.edu/butleroperacenter/Productions/Details.aspx?id=37
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