Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Playlist for Sunday, March 2, 2014: Side by Side by Side!

I chose this week's playlist title for many reasons!  First, we're sampling the musical (and lyrical) creations of Stephen Sondheim, opening with that very Company tune: "Side by Side by Side/What Would We Do Without You."  But also (and here comes Reason #2) we'll be playing the lesser known songs "along side" the epic classics, like "A Little Priest" from Sweeney with "It's That Kind of a Neighborhood" from Saturday Night. ANNNND (here's #3) we're also going to hear from that musical revue "Side by Side by Sondheim" that brought a few of these more esoteric selections to mind.  So for all of the above, we'll have a real conglomeration of Sondheim, the known, the almost known, and the WOW, never knew that!!

That includes a little ditty called "The Boy From...," which is a parody of (yes, you guessed right!) "The Girl From Ipanema."  Mary Rodgers wrote the tune for The Mad Show, a little off-Broadway revue from 1966, and Sondheim the marvelously funny lyric.  Millicent Martin (remember her? From That Was The Week That Was and Alfie???) sings in an appropriately sexy, out of breath, pseudo-Brazilian style.  Ai-yi-yi.


Side by Side by Side/What Would We Do Without You (Dean Jones, Ensemble,
                                       Company)
Bring Me My Bride (Ron Holgate, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to
                                       the Forum)
Dirty Old Man (Ruth Kobart, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
Back Stage Babble (Len Cariou, Ensemble, Applause)
But Alive (Lauren Bacall, Ensemble, Applause)
Children and Art (Bernadette Peters, Mandy Patinkin, Sunday in the Park with
                                      George)
I Remember (David Kernan, Side by Side by Sondheim, orig. from Evening
                                      Primrose)
A Beat Behind (Bernadette Peters, Ensemble, The Goodbye Girl)
Too Good to Be True (Ensemble, The Goodbye Girl)
It's That Kind of a Neighborhood (Ensemble, Saturday Night)
A Little Priest (Angela Lansbury, Len Cariou, Sweeney Todd)
The Boy From...(Millicent Martin, Side by Side by Sondheim, orig. from The Mad
                                      Show)
***If Time:  All Aboard (John Byner, The Frogs)




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