Marshall Fisher is a hunter of lost musicals. “In the middle of his career, Orson Welles said to Cole Porter, ‘I want to write a musical’ – Around the World in Eighty Days – ‘I want to direct it and I’m going to be in it.’ Truman Capote wrote House of Flowers with Harold Arlen. John Steinbeck wrote with Rodgers and Hammerstein, who had wanted to make a musical out of Cannery Row. But Steinbeck, classy John Steinbeck, said, ‘No, I’m gonna write a sequel specifically for you,’ – so he wrote a little novel called Sweet Thursday.”