Wishes Come True, Not Free.

The hiring scandal that has claimed former Lamont administration deputy budget director Kostantinos Diamantis will see others leave state government. The federal criminal investigation into the Lamont administration’s handing of the school construction grants program and state pier project will bring sorrowful headlines in the months ahead.

Chief State’s Attorney Richard Colangelo’s bitter departure from his office is imminent. Budget director Melissa McCaw may follow soon after, according to residents of the Capitol village.

In this interlude, Daily Ructions readers will enjoy a 1992 performance of the Boys Choir of Harlem and Betty Buckley as they join on two Stephen Sondheim gems, Our Time, from Merrily We Roll Along, and the eternal Children Will Listen, from the finale of Into the Woods. Sondheim died at his home in Roxbury in December. He was 91.

Sondheims’s wisdom endures. Careful the tale you tell, indeed.

“Careful the spell you cast

Not just on children

Sometimes the spell may last

Past what you can see

And turn against you

Careful the tale you tell

That is the spell

Children will listen.”