The opening number of this week's show is a real favorite: The Rhythm of Life, from Sweet Charity. I remember the movie version with Sammy Davis, Jr...but the Broadway "take" is just as cool. The character's name is Daddy Johann Sebastian Brubeck, an out-there, bead-wearing, nehru-jacketed cat. Then there's Bernadette Peter's "Wherever You Ain't" from Mack & Mabel, one of those strange musicals whose leading lady is addicted to cocaine, leaves the one guy who brought her out from behind that diner counter to become a star, and then she dies. Perfect for Broadway, right? And then there's a gorgeous ballad from Funny Girl, "Who Are You Now?" Enjoy...
The Rhythm of Life (Arnold Soboloff, Sweet Charity)
Razzle Dazzle (Jerry Orbach, Chicago)
You Are Woman (Sydney Chaplin, Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl)
Single Man Drought (Ensemble, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change)
The Saga of Jenny (Maria Friedman, Lady in the Dark)
This Plum is Too Ripe (Ensemble, The Fantasticks)
Anyone Can Whistle (Lee Remick, Anyone Can Whistle)
Who Are You Now? (Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl)
I Hate Men (Patricia Morrison, Kiss Me Kate)
Wherever He Ain't (Bernadette Peters, Mack & Mabel)
It Takes A Woman (David Burns, Charles Nelson Reilly, Jerry Dodge, Hello
Dolly!)
Impossible (Michael Hordern, Michael Crawford, A Funny Thing Happened
on the Way to the Forum)
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