Every January for more than 5o years, people in the University of Chicago community have tried to lighten winter's bleakness with a musical revue.  For many years, the witty Robert Ashenhurst and Ned Rosenheim provided words and music in a Noel Coward/academic vein.  More recently, Andy Austen, by day ABC-TV's courtroom artist, by night a playwright, has written scripts that are both clever and charming–and often very funny.

We're lucky to have the talent in the community to make it a  good...