Iconic wins out this Sunday! We'll hear from a lot of classic musicals, from Bye Bye Birdie and Oklahoma to Cinderella and The Music Man. Only a couple of eccentric "newbies," like one from Brownstone (The Musical), 1986...a Liz Callaway number called "Since You Stayed Here." This show never hit Broadway, better scaled perhaps to smaller theatres, and it didn't last long. But this number was subsequently covered by Bette Midler, Michael Crawford and Dionne Warwick (remember her?), so how bad can it be?
Greenwillow, Frank Loesser's less than successful foray of 1960 (yes, one reviewer did call it Lesser Loesser), starred Anthony Perkins (rehearsing in this musical WHILE filming Psycho)...and from that show we'll hear "Could've Been a Ring," which features Pert Shelton. You know her! She played Marion Paroo's mother in The Music Man, both the film and the staged version, aaaaannnnd she was the first to play Ralph Cramden's wife (yes, the first Alice) in the Honeymooners.
We'll close with a little trip to the 50's and "Heart and Soul," which was actually written by Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser (when he was MORE!)....
The Telephone Hour (Ensemble, Bye Bye Birdie)
Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat (Stubby Kaye, Guys and Dolls)
Pass That Football (Jordan Bentley, Wonderful Town)
When I'm Not Near The Girl I Love (David Wayne, Finian's Rainbow)
Wendy (Mary Martin, Peter Pan)
Goodnight My Someone (Barbara Cook, The Music Man)
Pore Jud is Daid (Albert Drake, Howard Da Silva, Oklahoma)
Could've Been a Ring (Pert Shelton, Lee Cass, Greenwillow)
T'morra T'morra (Joan McCracken, Bloomer Girl)
Since You Stayed Here (Liz Callaway, Brownstone)
I Cannot Hear The City (Brian D'arcy James, Sweet Smell of Success)
Ice Cream (Barbara Cook, She Loves Me)
In My Own Little Corner (Lea Salonga, Cinderella)
Heart and Soul (Jason Graae, Forever Plaid)
Doo-Waa Doo-Wee (Jason Graae, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really
Reflect Up?)
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