Geographically speaking, there's a pretty wide range in this week's show...from Gigi's Paris to 42nd Street's Shuffling off to Buffalo, from deepest, dankest Russia to the Bronx River Parkway, we run the gamut from marvelous to mundane.
A couple of my favorites: The Music that Makes Me Dance, sung by Ms. Streisand, from Funny Girl...and another standard that I'd always wondered about, Lazy Afternoon. Well, that one's from The Golden Apple, which was a musically updated take on The Iliad and The Odyssey (why do one, when you can have both?), and sung by Kaye Ballard who played Helen who runs away with a traveling salesman named...Paris. Barbra Streisand covered it back in the 70s, and I think a few other singers did as well, because I've known that song forever and never knew where it came from.
Added extra: Siberia, sung by Jules Munschin, Peter Lorre, and Joseph Buloff, the Russian Commissars in Silk Stockings, the movie. An original Broadway cast album of the 1955 musical was never released, so we'll have to content ourselves with this. Well, I'M content!
Heart (Ensemble, Damn Yankees)
Shuffle Off to Buffalo (Ensemble, 42nd Street)
You've Got That Thing (Jason Graae, Fifty Million Frenchmen)
Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries (Ensemble, Good News)
I'm All I've Got (Michele Lee, Bravo Giovanni)
We've Got It (Ken Howard, Seesaw)
Lazy Afternoon (Kaye Ballard, The Golden Apple)
The Music That Makes Me Dance (Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl)
The Heart is Quicker Than the Eye (Elaine Stritch, Bobby Van, On Your Toes)
I'd Rather Wake Up By Myself (Shirley Booth, By the Beautiful Sea)
Do You Love Me? (Zero Mostel, Maria Karnilova, Fiddler on the Roof)
I Remember It Well (Alfred Drake, Maria Karnilova, Gigi)
Siberia (Jules Munschin, Peter Lorre, Joseph Buloff, Silk Stockings)
Stuck with Each Other (Margery Gray, Byron Blu Mitchell, Tovarich)
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