The Nelson Line New Yorker Collection for 2021

For several years now the Nelson Line has licensed New Yorker cartoon and cover art for use in gifts, cards, and stationery. Products include trinket trays, coaster sets, note pads, journals, wine totes, zipper pouches, boxed notes, gift wrap, and magnets. The large variety of items are suitable as gifts for Father's Day and many other happy occasions. What more could the humor-loving public want? The 2021 catalogue shows the complete collection of available items. With luck, a few of these can be found at neighborhood stationers.

Cover with cartoons by Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Paul Karasik, and Kim Warp

Wine tote cartoons by Michael Crawford and Jason Adam Katzenstein. Other wine totes with Shakespeare quotations.
Zipper pouch cartoons by Bob Mankoff and Leo Cullum.

https://issuu.com/papereclips/docs/newyorker_catalog_1.20.21-web

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The Fortune of the Night

I'm beginning to suspect my Chinese fortune was plagiarized.

"Open up your mind. Let your fantasies unwind."

The relevant lyrics are at about 2:21 in this video recording of "The Music of the Night:"

"The Music of the Night"

from "The Phantom of the Opera" (1986)

Michael Crawford as the Phantom

Sarah Brightman as Christine Daaé

Andrew Lloyd Webber, music

Charles Hart, lyrics (with Richard Stilgoe?)

Speaking of allegations of plagiarism, the estate of Giacomo Puccini once accused Lloyd Webber of lifting a musical passage from the opera "La Fanciulla del West" ("The Girl of the Golden West"). The suit was settled out of court. Listen from 0:40 and see what you think.

"Quello che tacete"

from "La Fanciulla del West" (1910)

Daniele Barioni, tenor, as Dick Johnson

Giacomo Puccini, music

Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, libretto

Note:  It seems much of the world's accumulated wisdom can be gleaned from fortune cookies. See my collected musings after Chinese banquets here.

More posts about the Broadway stage may be seen here.

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