Forty years ago a Milwaukee Journal editor was in New York on business, and he decided to spend some free time in a Broadway theater. Growing up in the small upper peninsula Michigan town of Hubbell, Paul Salsini had little opportunity to see professional theater, but he got his hands on a cast album of "South Pacific" when he was in the eighth grade. It whetted his appetite for Broadway musicals. Salsini chose to see Stephen Sondheim's "Follies" on that night in 1971. The decision changed his life, and it had a small but interesting impact on American theater.