Well, the lusty month of May is almost over. It lasted all of 47 minutes, as will all of these glorious HOT months soon to come...and even those crispy/crunchy autumn days and the holidays will fly by (oh, the social calendar!). Then WHAM, the brakes slam on and we time warp into S L O W and C O L D. But let's not think about THAT: Now is prime time sun und fun and summer hours and biking and tans and pools. Or almost. Keeping looking up, as Kevin Williams says. We won't have to wait long! :)
And I'm realizing as I peak at June on my "desk calendar" (yup, a frickin' hard-copy calendar with Broadway Flops as the theme...thank you, daughter!), that June 1 marks my 10 year anniversary. A decade ago come next Tuesday, I moved out of my NYC "flat" with a broken U-Haul, piano, potted palm and over-played cds, and reinserted myself into my hometown. Speaking of time warps, it seems about 10 months ago, not 10 years. Add to this, in about 5 months, another landmark...at age 66, I will have lived half my time in the "country" and half in the "city". So in true "Uptown, Downtown"/CityMouseCountryMouse style, I will truly have had a foot in 2 very different zip codes. And happy in either? Ahhhhh, there's the rub.
So while I cogitate on all of that, and deem it profound or trivial, the fact that I've been allowed to twirl Broadway at you for almost a decade (and keep myself busy and averted and just avoid a lot of other chores!) is pretty damn marvy.
Reading this over, it seems the emphasis is on 2 things: TIME, which speeds or slows based on our enjoyment of said time. And ME. As I narcissistically ponder my navel and dwell on which Lucy or Jessy I am. I chose to do a ME Edition this week...but TIME was a close 2nd. So maybe that's for another TIME, as in the following week? We'll have to see. No promises. Not one. But the one promise (always) is Broadway at its Best!
The Three Of Us (Michael McKean, The Pajama Game)
Ya Got Me (Nancy Walker, On The Town)
You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me (Tammy Grimes, 42nd Street)
They Can't Take That Away From Me (Fred Astaire, Shall We Dance?)
Me And My Girl (Robert Lindsay, Emma Thompson, Me And My Girl)
Bring Me My Bride (Ron Holgate, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum)
Friend Like Me (Robin Williams, Aladdin)
It's Me (Isabel Bigley, Joan McCracken, Me & Juliet)
This Isn't Me (Daniel H. Jenkins, Big)
Come To Me, Bend To Me (John Gustafson, Brigadoon)
Follow Me (Marjorie Smith, Camelot)
As Long As He Needs Me (Georgia Brown, Oliver!)
Make The Man Love Me (Marcia Van Dyke, Johnny Johnston, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn)
For Me & My Gal (Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, For Me & My Gal)
No Man Left For Me (Dee Hoty, Will Rogers Follies)
There Ain't No Flies On Me (Gwen Verdon, Ensemble, New Girl In Town)
The Moon And Me (Kevin Chamberlain, The Addams Family)
Show Me (Lauren Ambrose, Jordan Donica, My Fair Lady)
Hey, Look Me Over (Jessica Molaskey, Make Believe)
Mean To Me (Nell Carter, Ain't Misbehavin')
But Not For Me (Bobby Short, K-RA-ZY For Gershwin)
Just You, Just Me (Judy Garland, Live At Carnegie Hall)
What Does He Want Of Me? (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Man Of LaMancha)
How About Me? (Judy Holiday, Trouble Is A Man)
If Only You Had Cared For Me (Frank Thornton, Ursula Smith, Me And My Girl)
Someone To Watch Over Me (Dawn Upshaw, Oh, Kay!)
Little Me (Faith Prince, Little Me)
The Real Me (Eileen Herlie, All American)
Love, You Didn't Do Right By Me (Rosemary Clooney, White Christmas)
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone (Doris Day)
Hold Me, Hold Me, Hold Me (Dolores Gray, Two On The Aisle)
She Loves Me (Zachary Levi, She Loves Me)
You Made Me Love You (Monte Markham, Debbie Reynolds, Irene)
Gimme Gimme (Sutton Foster, Thoroughly Modern Millie)
Take Me Along (Jackie Gleason, Walter Pigeon, Take Me Along)
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