On December 21 -- which is the shortest day of the year in terms of daylight " why not play "The Shortest Day of the Year"? It's the song that can be found about halfway through The Boys from Syracuse. Richard Rodgers wrote the melody that Lorenz Hart set to lyrics for their 1938 musical hit. It has a nice message: "The shortest day of the year" by definition "has the longest night of the year." But the character w…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:12AM on December 18, 2012