As I write this, the living room is awash with ribbons, wrapping paper, visiting cats dangerously close to the Christmas tree, and dinner preparations guilting me from the kitchen...BUT time, tide and playlists wait for no man!!
This Sunday, the last one of 2013, we'll begin with Puttin' on the Ritz, that Irving Berlin steal, mano a monster, from Young Frankenstein, the Musical. Other favorites from Kiss Me Kate, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Gigi, and Good News...and we have a couple of "new to show" items, like The Man I Used to Be, from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pipe Dream, one of their few disasters...based on John Steinbeck's Cannery Row (he even wrote the book for the show). John Steinbeck...musicals...a weird juxtaposition in my book!
And Mandy Patinkin makes an appearance (oh, how I wish IN PERSON!!), from the concert version of Follies, in which he sings a trio as a solo...Buddy's Blues. Bring on the schizophrenia!
Merry merry to you all...and see you on the flip side of this holiday!
Puttin' on the Ritz (Roger Bart, Shuler Hensley, Young Frankenstein)
Use What You Got (Sam Harris, The Life)
Purlie (Melba Moore, Purlie)
Were Thine That Special Face (Alfred Drake, Kiss Me Kate)
It's All Right With Me (Peter Cookson, Can Can)
That's Him (Mary Martin, One Touch of Venus)
Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend (Carol Channing, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
Dance With Me/Tonight at the Mardi Gras (Louisiana Purchase, The New York
Voices)
By The Sea (Angela Lansbury, Sweeney Todd)
Buddy's Blues (Mandy Patinkin, Follies)
The Man I Used To Be (William Johnson, Pipe Dream)
I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore (Alfred Drake, Gigi)
You're the Cream in my Coffee (Wayne Bryan, Claire Gerig, Good News)
Naughty Baby (Michele Pawk, John Hillner, Crazy for You)
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