Sunday Warblebirds!

 One of our Sunday ballads this week:
Leslie Uggams

and "My Own Morning",

written by Jule Styne, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green

for Hallelujah, Baby!

It was Leslie's Broadway debut, at the age of 24,

and she scooped a Best Actress in a Musical Tony award for it.

Leslie's presently 74 and still working:

 She starred in Empire (2015) and Deadpool (2016), 

above as "Blind Al".

Over 6 decades in the "business"...

and it all started in a little film called

Beulah,

in which Leslie played Ethel Water's niece, 

at 8 years of age. 

 

 Gotta have some Nathan Lane,

above with Bebe Neuwirth in

The Addams Family,

and below in the film version

(Addams Family Values, done in 1993)

in which Nathan played a police desk sergeant.

"Cook 'em, Hook 'em, and Book 'em!"

 And below, of course,

a star turn in The Producers,

Best Musical Tony winner of 2001,

with Cady Huffman

and Mathew Broderick.

 

 Bryce Pinkham and Jane Carr:
"You're A D'Ysquith!"

in A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder.

Bryce sounds British to the core,

but he was born and raised in California,

and has trod the Broadway boards in

Ghost, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Heidi Chronicles, 

and more (of course!).

Jane, on the other hand, is straight from Essex,

and has done film, stage, Brit television, and voice overs a 'plenty.

 Bryce with Jefferson Mays,

who played the entire D'Ysquith family in the show.

Back in 2004, Jefferson garnered

every KNOWN THEATRE AWARD

for his performance in 

I Am My Own Wife.

So no stranger to success, he!

 The Callaway Gals!

We'll hear a mash up of 

"The Sweetest Sounds" from No Strings

(a Richard Rodgers' musical from 1962)

and "I Can See It"

(from The Fantasticks, 1960...til forever!).