A Sound Scandal

Andrew Marton is a great writer (“A Scandalous Tour of Washington,” July 16), but did he really take this tour? I doubt it or else he sat in the first row. I read this in The Times and immediately booked for Aug. 5.

The idea is great and the performances looked like they might be fun, if you could hear them. The acoustics were so bad on the bus, so distorted that one was forced to listen so hard that one did not have time to listen for the scandal. Too bad because the idea is great. We took two guests from D.C. and they could have sent many more folks. My advice is to save yourself $46 each and just read and enjoy the article in the paper.

TERRY O’NEILL

Los Angeles