A Brooklyn reader asks, "If you were to take a digital clock and flip it over, in a 12-hour period how many words would it spell out?" The digits of seven-segment numeric displays, when turned ...

This is the maid character’s gutsy variation of my number-one choice, which you find out about later. (I’ll leave that for 11 o’clock.) Tonya Pinkins sang the living heck out of it.

The musical theatre canon is filled with many moving moments but none are as rousing as the 11 o’clock number, their impact lasting long after the curtain comes down on a performance. After taking an ...