Playlist For Sunday, May 19, 2024: Devil May Care!

Okay, I'll admit it. I slept thru the Northern Lights. On the first night (Friday? the 10th?), I totally forgot and went to bed at 10. The second night, I remembered and went to be bed at 9:30. I do have an excuse: Both mornings I had gotten up at 4:30am, so sans a Nap Time, I was comatose by twilight. But now I regret it. All "those photos up on the wall" (Company), this time the wall of FaceBook, and I have nary a one. Ah well...at least I got some beauty sleep, as all around me will no doubt appreciate. (Hah!) 

Yep, missed it!

 

But another week, another theme, right? And this one was simply HANDED to me, from current events (the OTHER less celestial current events)! Bad guys. Villains. Evil Doers. Staring out (or sleeping mid-witness?) from allllll of my screens this week. Fortunately for us, most real life villains don't jump up and sing and dance (cuz they'd for sure be off key and fail miserably at slap ball changes). So I DEFINITELY prefer Broadway Bad Guys. They can hoof. :)

 

That's the theme, Broadway Villains annnnnd Broadway Heroes. Can't have one without the other. Can't have baloney without whipped cream, or so sayeth Moe. And that's easy, too. Plenty of musical champions and their nemesisssses (nemisi?) on the Great White Way. 

 

Mr. Applegate, brought to you by Ray Walston.

 

Bob Holiday as The Man Of Steel!

 

Clive Revill, possibly recording his version of Fagin.

Brian d'Arcy James as good guy Shrek 

(oh, and that's Daniel Breaker as Donkey...who I saw as Aaron Burr in Hamilton!)

 

 

So Superman, Shrek, Mr. Applegate, Ursula, a White Knight, Mordred...that's who's scheduled to appear. Exhortations to Be Good, Do Good, rescue the planet or change the world, along with temptations and poison cake and musical MEANess! The gamut (which I once heard pronounced ga-MUTT. Whatever). 

Take a break from Real Life Bad Un's and enjoy the Villains that can modulate, sing a sneer, and pirouette a threat. And take heart with those Heroes (I need a hero!) lifting us up (wind beneath my wings? Ugh. No.). It'll be fun...on Broadway. 

 

I Wanna Be Bad (Annette Hanshaw)

Captain Hook's Waltz (Cyril Ritchard, Peter Pan)

Poor Unfortunate Souls (Sherie Rene Scott, The Little Mermaid)

Witches' Brew (Leslie Uggams, Hallelujah, Baby!)

I'm A Bad, Bad Man (Ray Middleton, Annie Get Your Gun)

Bad Companions (Nathaniel Frey, Margaret Hamilton, Ensemble, Goldilocks)

Bad (John Behlmann, Shucked)

Reviewing The Situation (Clive Revill, Oliver!)

They Don't Know (Harriet Harris, Thoroughly Modern Millie)

You Can Get Away With Anything (Michael Crawford, The Woman In White)

The Seven Deadly Virtues (Roddy McDowell, Camelot)

Those Were The Good Old Days (Ray Walston, Damn Yankees)

Revenge (Michael O'Sullivan, It's A Bird...It's A Plane...It's Superman)

Dentist! (Douglas Sills, Little Shop Of Horrors)

Think Vulgar (David Ross, Emil Wolk, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)

Be Prepared (Jon Vickery, Lion King)

Hello, Little Girl (Robert Westenberg, Into The Woods)

Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf  (Barbra Streisand)

Zero To Hero (LaChanze, Lillias White, Ensemble, Hercules)

Man Of La Mancha (Richard Kiley, Man Of La Mancha)

My White Knight (Barbara Cook, The Music Man)

It's Superman (It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman)

Doing Good (Bob Holiday, It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman)

Being Good (Leslie Uggams, Hallelujah, Baby!)

Be Good Or Be Gone (Debra Monk, Pump Boys And Dinettes)

Something Good (Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, The Sound Of Music)

Fie On Goodness (Ensemble, Camelot)

Heroes (Janet Dacal, Ensemble, Wonderland)

Who I'd Be (Brian d'Arcy James, Shrek)

Be The Hero (Norbert Leo Butz, Company, Big Fish)

There Won't Be Trumpets (Bernadette Peters, Anyone Can Whistle)

Once In A Lifetime (Anthony Newley, Stop The World I Want To Get Off)

One Person (Angela Lansbury, Company, Dear World)

 

 

 

Playlist For Sunday, May 12, 2024: Send A Dozen Gardenias

I lost my mom in 1995. That's 29 years ago. I can't really believe it's been that long. It's not hard to remember her face. Plenty of photos, of course, to help keep her image in mind...from high school age Gerry, to college (cavorting on a dorm roof?), to the mom I remember (she's always 40 years old in my memory banks, wearing a special black number, her hair bee-hived up...and a big rhinestone broach that I gave her for Christmas). She was 70 when she died. That sort of gives me the shivers, because I'm almost that now. 

 

 

Plus I'm living in her house. I've made a lot of changes, kept only a few items of her's, otherwise it'd be like living WITH her. But her recipe notes linger in the old cookbooks, her silverware in the drawer, her teapot, an evening bag...they're here. How long does DNA live? Cuz that's gotta coat a lot of surfaces, despite the errant Bon Amie and Pledge dustings I deign to do.

Keuka girls will be girls!

(That's Gerry on the left.)

Waxing a bit SAD here, and I shouldn't. You'll stop reading! But my guess is you all have similar connections to your moms, and it's bitter/sweet/sad/happy to think about them now.

 

Julie and a "game" lost to time? And it looks like such fun! :)

 

Sooooo ON A LIGHTER NOTE: We'll celebrate Moms AND May (it's a lusty month!), along with a couple favorite shows of mine (hey, I'm a mother, too!), like Life Begins At 8:40, The Drowsy Chaperone, and Me & My Girl. Plus a few comic "interludes". Gotta have comic interludes. 

 Beth Leavel feeling "Drowsy" and 

Robert Lindsay jumping about that lamp post,

in Me & My Girl.

What a cast! Du Barry starred Red Skelton, Virginia O'Brien,

Gene Kelly...we'll hear Salome (new to me!).

 

So tune in if you have a moment, between enjoying some SPRING and honoring that MOM. "Send a dozen gardenias."

 

 

The Lusty Month Of May (Julie Andrews, Camelot)

Mother's Day (Sami Gayle, Emma Rowley, Gyspy)

Motherhood (Carol Channing, Eileen Brennan, Sondra Lee, Hello, Dolly!)

You Remind Me Of My Mother (James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy)

My Mother Would Love You (Ethel Merman, Panama Hattie)

You're A Builder Upper (Christopher Fitzgerald, Jessica Stone, Life Begins At 8:40)

Spring Fever (Kate Baldwin, Life Begins At 8:40)

Quartet Erotica (Brad Oscar, Christopher Fitzgerald, Philip Chaffin, Graham Rowat, Life Begins At 8:40)

If Momma Was Married (Tracy Venner, Crista Moore, Gypsy)

A Mother Doesn't Matter Anymore (Tyne Daly, Bye Bye Birdie)

Mother's Day (Sherie Rene Scott, Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown)

Camelot (Richard Burton, Camelot)

The Simple Joys Of Maidenhood (Julie Andrews, Camelot)

C'est Moi (Robert Goulet, Camelot)

As We Stumble Along (Beth Leavel, The Drowsy Chaperone)

I Am Aldolpho (Danny Burstein, Beth Leavel, The Drowsy Chaperone)

Toledo Surprise (Jason and Garth Kravitz, Company, The Drowsy Chaperone)

Can't Stop Talkin' About Him (Audra McDonald)

Another Song About Paris (Dave Frishberg)

Hiding In Plain Sight (Jessica Molaskey, John Pizzarelli, A Kiss To Build A Dream On)

I'm Hip (Blossom Dearie, Blossom Time At Ronnie Scott's)

Peas In A Pod (Christine Ebersole, Erin Davie, Grey Gardens)

My Best Girl (Frankie Michaels, Angela Lansbury, Mame)

Mama, A Rainbow (Daniel Fortas, Shelley Winters, Minnie's Boys)

Momma Look Sharp (Scott Jarvis, William Duell, B.J. Slater, 1776)

Salome (Virginia O'Brien, Du Barry Was A Lady)

Salomee (Ensemble, Hazel Flagg)

Sam And Delilah (Klea Blackhurst, Everything The Traffic Will Allow)

Me And My Girl (Robert Lindsay, Maryann Plunkett, Me And My Girl)

Once You Lose Your Heart (Maryann Plunkett, Me And My Girl)

Leaning On A Lamp Post (Robert Lindsay, Me And My Girl)

Rose's Turn (Ethel Merman, Gypsy)