Right around now in the "Season", I get a little tired of the tie and tux. The party scene. The Dom Perignon. The maribou. And always the same 400! Because the bookend on this whole year looms and we gotta get out the hat and the heels, the cape and the cane, and prepare once more to jump into the breach. This social tilt-a-whirl is beginning to create agita, but are we men OR MICE?
So it's to a little Broadway New Year's "Almost Eve" soiree we go this Sunday, and we'll take inspiration from Fred Astaire (the quintessential party-goer), Noel Coward, Clark Gable, even Shirley Temple, and stiff upper lip it! I can be in the mood to throw confetti at the drop of a William Powell/Myrna Loy embrace, baby! And I intend to be. Just gimme a couple of days of no champagne or maribou.
(Side note: This is actually ALMOST the same New Years Eve show I was going to play last year, but the fates and the lack of snow plowing, kept me from it. So this thing's been grumpily sitting in a drawer for 365 days, waiting to come out and celebrate, so ix-nay on the ait-way, okay?)
Meetcha on the dance floor, cue Guy, and we'll party hardy on Sunday, k? You Can Do This. :)
It's Today (Angela Lansbury, Mame)
Top Hat, White Tie, And Tails (Fred Astaire, Top Hat)
The Life Of The Party (David Wayne, The Happy Time)
I Went To A Marvelous Party (Noel Coward)
Somebody's Going To Throw A Big Party (Ensemble, Fifty Million Frenchmen)
Such A Merry Party (Ensemble, Little Mary Sunshine)
Dry (Mandy Patinkin, Ensemble, The Wild Party)
Well, Did You Evah? (Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, High Society)
Fasten Your Seatbelts (Lauren Bacall, Len Cariou, Applause)
They Just Keep Moving The Line (Megan Hilty, Bombshell)
With One Look (Patti LuPone, Sunset Boulevard)
Being Alive (Audra McDonald, Sing Happy)
The Way You Look Tonight (Fred Astaire, Swing Time)
I Want To Be Seen With You (Sydney Chaplin, Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl)
Shall We Dance (Bobby Short, K-RA-ZY For Gershwin)
Shall We Dance (Gertrude Lawrence, Yul Brynner, The King And I)
Let's Face The Music And Dance (Fred Astaire, Follow The Fleet)
The Music That Makes Me Dance (Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl)
Dance A Little Closer (Len Cariou, Liz Robertson, Dance A Little Closer)
I Could Have Danced All Night (Lauren Ambrose, My Fair Lady)
There's No Business Like Show Business (Elaine Stritch, Elaine Stritch At
Liberty)
That's My Boy (Elaine Stritch, Stritch)
You Took Advantage Of Me (Elaine Stritch, On Your Toes)
If (Elaine Stritch, Two On The Aisle)
The Ladies Who Lunch (Elaine Stritch, Company)
Puttin' On The Ritz (Clark Gable, Idiot's Delight)
Puttin' On The Ritz (Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Young Frankenstein)
Puttin' On The Ritz (Fred Astaire, Blue Skies)
Puttin' On The Ritz (Roger Bart, Shuler Hensley, Young Frankenstein)
The Party's Over (Judy Garland, Judy Garland Live!)
The Party's Over (Judy Holiday, Bells Are Ringing)
The Party's Over (Leslie Odom, Jr., Leslie Odom, Jr.)
The Party's Over (Elaine Stritch, Elaine Stritch At Liberty)
Last Night Of The Year (Tom Wopat, Consider It Swung)
Auld Lang Syne (Shirley Temple)
Auld Lang Syne (Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians)
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