Fugue for Tinhorns

And the other, and to my mind, the other great leap through, and this is, you know, it's for those of us who love, you know, American musicals or love the musical theater generally, this is one of maybe the three most famous anecdotes about starting off a show.

that the great opening number, Fugue for Tinhorns.

I got the horse right here.

His name is Paul Revere.

He said there's got to be a great number because he was himself a horse player.

So there's got to be a great number in here.

And he wrote it, Fugue for Tinhorns, as we call it.

And everybody said, oh, God, what a great number.