We’re poor little lambs who have lost our way
Baa-baa-baa
We’re little black sheep who have gone astray
Baa-baa-baa
In a stately old building in Manhattan one recent night, nearly 100 actors, playwrights, lyricists and producers gathered around a piano and sang those words with gusto.
Nobody was too shy to give their all to “The Whiffenpoof Song,” a melancholy ballad that has long been the signature song of Yale University’s a cappella group and a hit for Rudy Vallee and Bing Crosby.
Nobody was embarrassed. Nobody was … sheepish. For the people in the room were members of the Lambs, the nation’s oldest social club for theatrical professionals. Former members include Irving Berlin, Charlie Chaplin and George Gershwin.
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