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While his life may have seemed loose and imperfect in many ways, Toots Shor was a man who lived by a timeless, unwavering code of conduct.  He measured wealth not in dollars but in the richness of relationships spawned from a deep, loyal commitment to a basic set of principles and ideals.  Toots was the longest of long shots and a larger-than-life character who stood out on a crowded stage filled with personalities of gigantic proportion. He danced on the thin ice with the grace of a punch-drunk prizefighter and even though every now and then he fell in and got wet, no one can dispute that Toots enjoyed the moment or ever forget the self-styled panache, wit and wisdom he used to forever defend it.  This musical celebrates Toots' tireless belief in the value of true friendship and the risk-taker hidden deep in all of us.