A press release for the production of Mr. Sensitivity as part of the NY International Fringe Fest this month includes the following interesting info:

Playwright BYRON NILSSON’s credits include “Drivers” (Ensemble Studio Theatre), the musical “Pirate Pip” (commissioned by the Lake George Opera Company), and “iFind You @ Last,” premiered at Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz. With songwriting partner Tom Savoy, Byron is currently writing a full-length holiday musical based on Booth Tarkington’s “Beasley’s Christmas Party.”

Three years ago, I wrote my own stage adaptation of Beasley’s Christmas Party, also including elements of Tarkington’s Ramsay Milholland.  Last year, the off-Broadway Keen Company staged their own dramatic adaptation.  Now it’s a musical!

Those who have ears, take note. Clearly there’s something to this story, which Mark Twain even noted when the story was originally released.