In Memoriam: Kim Corcoran

I'm deeply saddened to announce that Kim Corcoran died on July 26th, 2024 due to severe injuries sustained in a cycling accident on June 15th. Her final show was broadcast by her colleagues at Jazz 90.1 on July 28th.

This will likely be the final post on Kim's blog, but we (Kim's family) will keep the site available as long as possible. Although this started as a minor companion to her show, it's clear that posting her thoughts here had become important to her over the years. If you'd like to read more about Kim's life, there is an obituary. Jazz 90.1 has also created a memorial page.

In lieu of flowers and other memorial gifts, we've suggested making a donation in memory of Kim to one of the following charities (or to the charity of your choice):

• The Brain Injury Association of America
• The Brain Trauma Foundation
• Doctors Without Borders
• Oxfam America

Thanks to everyone who has read Kim's posts. We hope people will continue to enjoy their wit and moments of touching honesty.

Playlist For Sunday, June 16, 2024: Do the (Tony) Hustle!

Recent Brain Droppings: 

1.) Tis the season of long bike rides. I'm talkin' pushing the (pedal) envelope towards that century mark. BUT every time I get to around 65 miles, all I can think of is "why" ...as in WHY did you plan a gosh darn 86 mile trek to Bim Bom Bay? Of course, then I stop and eat a Pay Day and turn on my soundtrack (50s? 70s? Broadway?) and ...I still think the thoughts, but pant and puff home.

That's me with the 'kerchief! Old Paint is pretty zippy.

2.) During the pandemic, I followed a zillion You-Tubers. Like the ones who show you how to crochet with wire or make vegan cheese or water fast for 40 days. I'm finding I don't need them anymore. Like, what was I thinking? Do I really need to make earrings out of cheese and wire? Well, basically back then I'd watch anything. Jettison. Now.

 

 

 3.) I still have critters in my "roof" ...like bad upstairs neighbors that I had in NYC, only with no attitude, just teeth. Broom handle knocking works for about 30 seconds. I mean, it really sounds like these guys are black-walnut bowling. Bocci at 3am. What the...

4.) Annnnd I'm still doin' the Tony Hustle! 37 more musicals this coming Sunday, though I DID leave one out. I guess true Broadway-philes will notice the omission immediately, but it's a show I knew was not worth ordering a CD of (2 hints: Juke-boxy and centered on dance) and I couldn't find a You-Tube edition that was sound-worthy. Ah well...at least that omission will make room for 1 brand new musical that's favored to win the 2024 award. So there. 

Meanwhile, Jazz 90.1 is in the middle of a short but sweet fund raiser. Trying to meet that June 30th deadline, financial-goal-wise. Our members (like you!) are super generous every pledge drive, but if you can find it in your heart (and in your checking account) to add a couple more pennies to our "coffers", that would be wonderful. 

As always, THANKS and see ya for Part 2 of our Tony Quest (we ride at DAWN! I mean, at 3) on Sunday, and maybe at the Jazz Fest, right? I'll be boothing it. Come see me! 

Masquerade (Ensemble, The Phantom Of The Opera)

Waitin' For The Sun To Shine (Daniel Jenkins, Big River)

Off To The Races (George Rose, The Mystery Of Edwin Drood)

Do You Hear The People Sing? (Michael Maguire, Ensemble, Les Miserables)

Overture: Gotta Dance/Papa, Won't You Dance With Me (Company, Jerome Robbins Broadway

You Gotta Look Out For Yourself (Scott Waara, Ensemble, City Of Angels)

No Man Left For Me (Dee Hoty, Will Rogers' Follies)

Naughty Baby (Jodi Benson, Harry Groener, Crazy For You)

Kiss Of The Spider Woman (Chita Rivera, Kiss Of The Spider Woman)

Loving You (Donna Murphy, Jere Shea, Passion)

The Perfect Year (Patti LuPone, Kevin Anderson, Sunset Boulevard)

Seasons Of Love (Company, Rent)

We'll Meet Tomorrow (Company, Titanic)

They Live In You (Samuel E. Wright, The Lion King)

Dancin' Dan/Me And My Shadow (Ben Vereen, Company, Fosse)

Haben Sie Gehort Das Deutsche Band? (Brad Oscar, The Producers)

Thoroughly Modern Millie (Sutton Foster, Ensemble, Thoroughly Modern Millie)

(It's) Hairspray (Clarke Thorell, Hairspray)

The Avenue Q Theme (Company, Avenue Q)

Whatever Happened To My Part? (Sara Ramirez, Spamalot)

Big Girls Don't Cry (Ensemble, Jersey Boys)

The Song Of Purple Rain (Lauren Pritchard, Spring Awakening)

Champagne (Karen Olivo, Lin Manuel Miranda, In The Heights)

Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher (Santino Fontana, Ensemble, Billy Elliot)

Everybody Wants To Be Black On A Saturday Night (Company, Memphis)

Hello! (Company, The Book Of Mormon)

Say It To Me (Steve Kazee, Once)

Charlie's Soliloquy (Stark Sands, Kinky Boots)

You're A D'ysquith (Jane Carr, Bryce Pinkham, A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder)

Ring Of Keys (Sydney Lucas, Fun Home)

The Schuyler Sisters (Leslie Odom Jr., Renee Elise Goldsberry, Philippa Soo, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Hamilton)

Anybody Have A Map (Rachel Bay Jones, Ensemble, Dear Evan Hansen)

Omar Sharif (Katrina Lenk, The Band's Visit)

When The Chips Are Down (Chris Sullivan, Nabiya Be, Hadestown)

Shut Up And Dance With Me (Karen Olivo, Aaron Tveit, Moulon Rouge)

A Strange Loop (Jaquel Spivey, A Strange Loop)

Great Adventure (Victoria Clark, Kimberly Akimbo)

Kaleidoscope (Maleah Joi Moon, Hell's Kitchen)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Playlist For Sunday, June 9, 2024: Tony, Let's Haul It!

Well, this past Saturday (June 1st) I celebrated an anniversary...13 years ago that day, I moved out of NYC. It took 1 U-Haul, driven by my cousin, and 1 SUV (the old large kind) to hold books, plants, clothes, lamps, "art", and a piano. About 150 miles north, the U-Haul stopped hauling, and we sat on a Thruway shoulder waiting for a rescue (4 hours, 88 degrees), which "hauled" the defunct "U" to Colonie, just north-ish of Albany, for a replacement. 

 

Not the actual U-Haul in question, but you get the "picture".

So I stopped being a New Yorker on the 1st, and became an Upstater on the 2nd. I guess the powers-that-be saw it necessary for me to take a longer decompression time, specifically in an Albany Comfort Inn, with Pizza Hut "fuel", to go from City to Country Mouse. Why those powers thought Albany an appropriate decompression venue, and not Skaneateles or the casino at Verona, I'll never know. 

This is me, lounging in my pink feathers about the barn.

 

And just this year, I can now say I've spent half of my life in each location. Half Park Ave., half Green Acres. The pendulum will now swing in the upstate direction, unless I move to Iceland and spend 34 years THERE! 

All this to say, I'm embarrassed by my absence on Broadway. Here it is again, Tony Awards time, and I regret to say I haven't seen 1 of the nominees for Best Musical. (I did see Merrily We Roll Along, but that's a Revival nom. Doesn't count.) Soooo with all that ignorance of the NEW, I've planned a challenge for myself. Let's play alllll of the past Best Musical Tony Winners since the category was launched, starting in 1948 and going all the way to 2023.

 

One of the first Tony Award Ceremonies, held at the Waldorf Astoria

(perhaps that's Carol Haney, at Table 49???),

and (below) the money clip awarded to the male winners,

pre-trophy!

 

That's 77 musicals. This week, 37 (tho my new favorite number is 34). The following, 40? We WILL do this, do not think we can't. I'll just have to shut up and spin. Mostly it'll be in a tight chronological order. Notice I said mostly. That could change.

But tune in and count down...If we can't make it to this year's red carpet, we can reminisce about the old ones. They'll sound just as good, as long as we vacuum. :)

 

We Open In Venice (Alfred Drake, Patricia Morrison, Harold Lang, Harold Lang, Kiss Me Kate)

Bloody Mary (Ensemble, South Pacific)

Guys And Dolls (Stubby Kaye, Johnny Silver, Douglas Deane, Guys And Dolls)

Shall We Dance (Gertrude Lawrence, Yul Brynner, The King And I)

Ohio (Rosalind Russell, Edie Adams, Wonderful Town)

The Olive Tree (Alfred Drake, Kismet)

The Pajama Game (Ensemble, The Pajama Game)

Heart (Jean Stapleton, Ensemble, Damn Yankees)

Get Me To The Church On Time (Stanley Holloway, My Fair Lady)

Till There Was You (Barbara Cook, Robert Preston, The Music Man)

Look Who's In Love (Richard Kiley, Gwen Verdon, Redhead)

Edelweiss (Theodore Bikel, The Sound Of Music)

Gentlemen Jimmy (Eileen Rodgers, Fiorello!)

A Lot Of Livin' To Do (Dick Gautier, Bye Bye Birdie)

I Believe In You (Robert Morse, Ensemble, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying)

Lovely (Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum)

Miracle Of Miracles (Austin Pendleton, Fiddler On The Roof)

Dulcinea (Richard Kiley, Man Of La Mancha) 

Finale (David Burns, Carol Channing, Company, Hello, Dolly!)

Cabaret (Liza Minnelli, Cabaret)

My Own Morning (Leslie Uggams, Hallelujah, Baby!) 

Welcome To The Theatre (Lauren Bacall, Applause)

The Lees Of Old Virginia (Ron Holgate, 1776)

The Little Things You Do Together (Elaine Stritch, Ensemble, Company)

Send In The Clowns (Glynis Johns, A Little Night Music)

I'd Like To Be A Rose (Raul Julia, Clifton Davis, Two Gentlemen Of Verona)

Man Say (Joe Morton, Ernestine Jackson, Raisin)

Mean Ole Lion (Ted Ross, The Wiz) 

The Joint Is Jumpin' (Ensemble, Ain't Misbehavin') 

Sing! (Don Percassi, Renee Baughman, A Chorus Line)

Tomorrow (Andrea McArdle, Annie)

Wait (Len Cariou, Angela Lansbury, Sweeney Todd)

Only With You (Raul Julia, Nine) 

Getting Out Of Town (Carol Cooke, Joseph Bova, 42nd Street) 

Don't Cry For Me Argentina (Patti LuPone, Evita)

Memory (Betty Buckley, Cats)

The Best Of Times (George Hearn, Company, La Cage Aux Folles) 

Playlist For Sunday, June 2, 2024: To bust or not to bust, that's the question!

A rainy Memorial Day, so here I sit inside...kind of content, truth to tell. I snuck (sneaked? sneakered? snacked?) in a quick bike ride early, to avoid the forecasted forecast, but now it's like a free inside day. Am I turning into a rain-loving Otto Bruno? Maybe I'll paint a cabinet, maybe I'll re-binge Ripley...or nap, like a 68,000 year old lady is expected to. Or maybe I'll concoct another 2 On The Aisle playlist.

 

 

But I can't do JUNE. As in Carousel's JUNE. 

Because I never liked Carousel.

Too sappy. If I hear that soliloquy one more time. Clam Bakes. June busting out all over. Mr. Snow. Not for me. Same with most Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals. I sorta put up with 'em. Maybe Bloody Mary. Maybe that Goatherd song (once a year). Maybe Something Good (Elaine Stritch's version, less sap). That's about it. Otherwise, all those cowboys and farmers and nuns and Mitzi washing her hair give me headaches. 

 Tra La. It's June. Let's bust out!

ALTHOUGH June IS busting out, at last. And I guess I should play it? ....Nah.

But there is a birthday that we've gotta celebrate: Marvin Hamlisch's natal day is this week. We can't walk by that one (Gosh, "I hope I get it " THIS TIME!) or dance by it, either. Also Marilyn Monroe's BD is June 3. No, she did not do anything on Broadway, but she did "do" Hollywood, and I think she's underrated as a singer. That's my excuse anyway, and I'm sticking with it! 

 

Marvin and Marilyn...just a pair of Geminis.

 

Plus Chicago. It opened 49 years ago (June 3 is its anniversary) and it's still running (and running and running). I guess he really had it coming. The Razzle and the Dazzle are on loop.

 

So give a listen, if you can, come Sunday...enjoy your free inside (or outside) days as we bust out (or not) into June. (Okay, maybe I'll play it NEXT Sunday. But no promises.) Huzzah!

Lazy (Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, There's No Business Like Show Business)

Razzle Dazzle (Jerry Orbach, Chicago)

Roxie (Gwen Verdon, Chicago)

He Had It Coming/Cell Block Tango (Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ensemble, Chicago)

The Column (John Lithgow, Sweet Smell Of Success)

One Track Mind (John Noseworthy, Sweet Smell Of Success)

Welcome To The Night (John Lithgow, Ensemble, Sweet Smell Of Success)

Sunshine, Lollipops, and Roses (Lesley Gore)

The Travelin' Life (Liza Minnelli, Liza! Liza!)

Life Is What You Make It (Johnny Mathis)

A Private Man (Marvin Hamlisch)

Workin' It Out (Robert Klein, Lucie Arnaz, They're Playing Our Song)

Fallin' (Robert Klein, They're Playing Our Song)

They're Playing My Song (Company, They're Playing Our Song)

Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen (Company, A Chorus Line)

I Can Do That (Wayne Cilento, A Chorus Line)

I Hope I Get It (Company, A Chorus Line)

After You Get What You Want (Marilyn Monroe, There's No Business Like Show Business)

River Of No Return (Marilyn Monroe, River Of No Return)

Old Black Magic (Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Bus Stop)

Good News, Bad News (Martin Short, Bernadette Peters, Tammy Minoff, The Goodbye Girl)

What A Guy (Bernadette Peters, The Goodbye Girl)

Too Good To Be Bad (Bernadette Peters, Carol Woods, Susann Fletcher, The Goodbye Girl)

Dreamers (Sarah Brightman, Jean Seberg)

Nobody Does It Better (Carly Simon, The Spy Who Loved Me)

The Way We Were (Barbra Streisand, The Way We Were)

You'd Be Surprised (Marilyn Monroe)

Heat Wave (Marilyn Monroe, There's No Business Like Show Business)

Bye Bye Baby (Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)

Playlist For Sunday, May 26, 2024: Bibbidees!

Random thoughts: 

1.) George Clooney is coming to Broadway. Sutton's coming BACK to Broadway. Plus 1,700 shows have opened in the last 2 months, just in time to be celebrated (or ignored) by the Tonys. My head is spinning with all the Broadway that I haven't seen or heard. UGH. I can't keep up. I'll definitely watch the Tony ceremonies, but it'll all be NEW to me. 

 

Can you imagine the swarm for tickets?

And the swarm at the stage door?

Ms. Foster will be taking on the mantle

   (and the moat's seaweed)

of Princess Fred, come Spring '25.

2.) It's NOT too darn hot. It's waaaaay too early to start complaining about the heat and the bugs and the weeds. It's embarrassing! After all those months spent complaining about cold? Can't do it. (But it IS rather warm. Like really. I really hate it. Geez.)

3.) I quit the band. Some of you may remember my blithely joining up with the community band out here. Somebody threw me an alto sax and said "You can do it!" and I believed them? I never caught the practice bug, never taught my embouchure to behave, and just basically sucked. So a Quitter am I! UGH. Easier to talk music than make it. (I did learn the Poirot theme song, however. That's something.)

 

4.) All those heroes and villains from last Sunday's 2 On The Aisle has metamorphosed into a Fairy Tale Theme! A Once Upon a Time/Happily Ever After collection, including Shrek, Cinderella, Into The Woods, Mattress...I'll try not to play too many saccharine love songs and Bibbidee Bobbidees, but some WILL appear. Apologies if your teeth start to ache (or your nose starts to grow). What price Broadway, huh?

 

And hey, send me a request or 7! Or toss me theme! I get desperate sometimes, out here sweating in the heat, without a sax, missing the Clooney, and trying to create more wacky 2 On The Aisles for y'all. See ya Sunday. :)

 

 

Once Upon A Time (Maureen McGovern)

Story Of My Life (John Tartaglia, Ensemble, Shrek The Musical)

I Think I Got You Beat (Sutton Foster, Brian d'Arcy James, Shrek The Musical)

What's Up, Duloc? (Christopher Sieber, Ensemble, Shrek The Musical)

The Prince Is Giving A Ball (Ensemble, Cinderella)

Stepsisters' Lament (Brandy Zarle, Jen Bechter, Cinderella)

In My Own Little Corner (Lea Salonga, Cinderella)

A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes (Ilene Woods, Cinderella)

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (Ensemble, Cinderella)

So This Is Love (Ilene Woods, Mike Douglas, Cinderella)

An Opening For A Princess (Company, Once Upon A Mattress)

Happily Ever After (Carol Burnett, Once Upon A Mattress)

Very Soft Shoes (Matt Mattox, Once Upon A Mattress)

Happily Ever After (Craig Lucas, Marry Me A Little)

Pleasant Little Kingdom (Stephen Sondheim, Sondheim Sings, Vol. 1)

Two Fairy Tales (Craig Lucas, Suzanne Henry, Marry Me A Little)

I've Got No Strings (Dickie Jones, Pinocchio)

Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee (Walter Catlett, Pinocchio)

Who's Been Sitting In My Chair (Elaine Stritch, Goldilocks)

Be Our Guest (Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury, Ensemble, Beauty And The Beast)

Gaston (Richard White, Jesse Corti, Beauty And The Beast)

On The Steps Of The Palace (Kim Crosby, Into The Woods)

Ever After (Tom Aldredge, Company, Into The Woods)

No One Is Alone (Kim Crosby, Chip Zien, Ensemble, Into The Woods)

Some Day My Prince Will Come (Adriana Caselotti, Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs)

I Built A Fairy Palace In The Sky (Ursula Connors, Chu Chin Chow)

The Queen Of Terre Haute (Peggy Cass, Fifty Million Frenchmen)

Queen Lucy (Reva Rose, Bob Balaban, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown)

Where In The World Is My Prince? (Faith Prince, Miss Spectacular) 

Friend Like Me (Robin Williams, Aladdin) 

Part Of That World (Jodi Benson, Little Mermaid)

I've Got A Dream (Brad Garrett, Jeffrey Tambour, Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Tangled)

Once Upon A Dream (Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Sleeping Beauty)

Once Upon A Dream (Christiane Noll, Jekyll & Hyde)

Once Upon A Time (Ray Bolger, All American)

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, Ensemble, 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 (Patricia Marand, 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 (Cass Morgan, 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, Sutton Foster, 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)