Playlist for April 13, 2014: Dancing, Newbies...and Happy Talk!

 After the best opener EVER ("Good Morning, Baltimore!"...though a musical friend of mine has sung it as Good Morning, Rochester...), we have some newbies to hear: "Wick" from The Secret Garden and "When I Grow Up" from Matilda. They definitely have a new, poppy sound, not that old razz-ma-tazz Broadway style, but I think they're fresh and open and for me to tolerate anything past Comden and Green, well...you know they've gotta have something! 

Then we have a couple of dance-y numbers, one from a true flop, Nick & Nora, with Barry Bostwick and Joanna Gleason, and the other from that Danny Kaye class-act, from White Christmas: "The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing."  Interesting side note, Vera-Ellen who played Rosemary Clooney's younger sister in the movie, was actually 7 years older than Rosemary, annnnnd had to have an oxygen tank on hand, for use between those dance numbers. 

Speaking of Rosemary, we get to hear "Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me," one luscious tune from that romantic Mr. Berlin, and "A Stud and a Babe," such a great character song that if I COULD sing and if I COULD act, I would do in a New York nano-second. 

Thanks for joining me in this obsession called Broadway! 


Good Morning, Baltimore (Marissa Jaret Winokur, Hairspray)
Wick (Daisy Eagan, John Cameron Mitchell, The Secret Garden)
When I Grow Up (Adrianna Bertola, Ensemble, Matilda)
Is There Anything Better Than Dancing? (Barry Bostwick, Joanna Gleason,
                                  Nick & Nora)
The Best Things Happen While You're Dancing (Danny Kaye, White Christmas)
Smash (Megan Hilty, Bombshell)
Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me (Rosemary Clooney, White Christmas)
Happy Talk (Juanita Hall, South Pacific)
Bill (Anita Darian, Show Boat)
Is That Remarkable? (Ensemble, Floyd Collins)
Dirt (Ensemble, Sweet Smell of Success)
A Stud and a Babe (Jennifer Simard, Robert Roznowski, I Love You, You're
                                   Perfect, Now Change)
The Real Me (Eileen Herlie, All-American)