Yes, that IS Peter Falk!

From the 1966 TV version of Brigadoon, Peter Falk, Sally Ann Howes (Chitty Chitty!) and Robert Goulet. 

Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker, Do Re Mi

Playlist for Sunday, June 30, 2013: Back and LIVE!

Jet lag is over, and I'm ready for another 2 ON THE AISLE! 

This week's show has its share of iconic and peculiar.  On the epic side, we have Too Darn Hot, which is how my heat-waved hair left me feeling in Italy last week, along with The Heather on the Hill from Brigadoon.  On the peculiar side, The Production Code, which is a tap-danced recitation of the Hollywood censorship code...hey, it works! You can actually dance to this stuff.

Along with all that are two selections from Me and My Girl, an English musical originally produced in 1937, about a cockney costermonger (wow...had to look that one up! A street-side fruit and veggie seller) who finds out he's the 14th Earl of something-shire and his galfriend, Sally...my new favorite musical.

Stay cool out there...and hope you can tune it!


The Best of Times (George Hearn and cast, La Cage Aux Folles)
Too Darn Hot (Harold Lang and cast, Kiss Me Kate)
Prisoners of Love (Nathan Lane and cast, The Producers)
Me and My Girl (Robert Lindsay, Maryann Plunkett, Me and My Girl)
Lucky to Be Me (John Battles, On the Town)
I Got Lost in His Arms (Ethel Merman, Annie Get Your Gun)
Once You Lose Your Heart (Maryann Plunkett, Me and My Girl)
Two by Two (Andrew Rannells, Josh Gad and cast, The Book of Mormon)
I Don't Know Where She Got It (Lillian Hayman, Hallelujah, Baby!)
If I Were a Bell (Isabel Bigley, Guys and Dolls)
The Heather on the Hill (David Brooks, Marion Bell, Brigadoon)
Waiting, Waiting (Nancy Walker, Do Re Mi)
The Production Code (Ensemble, A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine)

Been on vacation to Italia...sorry not to post!  Brand new show this coming Sunday (June 30th), however, and that playlist will be up soon. 

On the Town...but for only 24 hours!

Cris Alexander, John Battles and Adolph Green, 1944.

Playlist for Sunday, June 16, 2013

A little of this, a little of that this Sunday...from jungle animal accompaniment in "Pernambuco" (which definitely sounds like a drink with an umbrella in it, doesn't it?) from Where's Charlie? to dopey gentlemen from Allegro, from Kabuki-styled Sondheim to a test on Edgar Allen Poe!  It's all here...plus two absolute favorites:  "Fable," from A Light in the Piazza and "But Not For Me" by Bobby (Gershwin) Short, from Girl Crazy.  Thanks for tuning in!


I Feel Like I'm Not Outta Bed Yet and New York New York (Ensemble, On the
                                                            Town)
Welcome to Kanagawa (Ensemble, Pacific Overtures)
The Glamorous Life (Glynis Johns, A Little Night Music)
Pernambuco (Barry Kent, Where's Charley?)
Perfidia (Ensemble, Forever Plaid)
The Lady is a Tramp (Judy Blazer, Babes in Arms)
The Gentleman is a Dope (Lisa Kirk, Allegro)
But Not for Me (Bobby Short, Girl Crazy)
Dance with Me (Gregory Harrison, Steel Pier)
My White Night (Barbara Cook, The Music Man)
Fable (Victoria Clark, The Light in the Piazza)
Goin' Courtin' (Jane Powell and Ensemble, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)
Once a Year Day (Ensemble, The Pajama Game)
Edgar Allen Poe (Ensemble, Snoopy)

Book of Mormon...Hello!

This was a last minute addition to the opening of yesterday's (6/9/13) show...Hello! from The Book of Mormon.

No Coffee???

Charles Nelson Reilly and Claudette Sutherland...can't SUCCEED IN BUSINESS without it!

Phyllis Newman and her towel...

From Subways are for Sleeping, Tony awarding winning stuff.

In honor of Jean Stapleton...

...here with Judy Holliday, workin' that switchboard with Judy in Bells Are Ringing.

Playlist for Sunday, June 9, 2013

Some REAL favorites of mine this Sunday!  A young Liza from Flora the Red Menace, Phyllis Newman's "I Was A Shoe-In" from Subways are for Sleeping, and an epic "Some Enchanted Evening" from South Pacific.  Then there's a tribute to coffee...a trio of caffeine-based odes, from calm and jazzy to over-the-top desperate for a cup!  That last one, of course, from How to Succeed and Charles Nelson Reilly...whatta guy.  Plus an Audra McDonald number, "Baltimore," which technically isn't from a Broadway show, but its writers are working on it! 

Boffo ending from Curtains...and "What Kind of Man?"....hope you're listening! 


Seasons of Love (Ensemble, Rent)
A Wonderful Day (Cyril Ritchard, The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the
                                       Crowd)
Sing Happy (Liza Minnelli, Flora the Red Menace)
Some Enchanted Evening (Enzio Pinza, South Pacific)
Shall We Dance? (Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner, The King and I)
Sounds While Selling (Ensemble, She Loves Me)
Embassy Lament (Ensemble, Chess)
Coffee in a Cardboard Cup (Lillian Hayman, Goldye Shaw, 70, Girls, 70)
Quiet Coffee (Sally Kellerman, Breakfast at Tiffany's)
Coffee Break (Charles Nelson Reilly and Ensemble, How to Succeed)
Sarah Brown Eyes (Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald, Ragtime)
When I First Saw You (Ben Harney and Sheryl Lee Ralph, Dream Girls)
I Was A Shoe-In (Phyllis Newman, Orson Bean, Subways are for Sleeping)
Baltimore (Audra McDonald, Go Back Home (album))
What Kind of Man? (Ensemble, Curtains)