You may notice by perusing the playlist that YES, this is a show with a theme! And that theme is DREAM! Have a dream, dream a little dream, I could use a dream, I guess I'll have to dream...you name it, it's dreamy. This Dream Land of a show pulls from Broadway musicals, movie musicals, and standards old and new. A couple of them may be soporific enough to induce actual dreaming...but try to stay awake, okay?
Favorites? "I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls"...from (gulp) 1843, when dinosaurs roamed the earth. It's actually from an opera, The Bohemian Girl, and it has found its way into soundtracks, literature, and covers by Joan Sutherland, Enya, Celtic Women and more...but I know it from a little movie called "An Apartment for Peggy" with Jeanne Crain. Wonderful and old and sappy, so we're doing it!
I also love Liza and "You Stepped Out Of A Dream", which was recorded live in 1996, which is snazzy and sleazy and other "s" adjectives. "I'll Never Have to Dream Again" with Connie Boswell (after she jettisoned her sisters, or they jettisoned her, depending on the rags you read)....and two Glenn Miller offerings, "I Guess I'll Have to Dream the Rest" and "As Long as I'm Dreaming."
Standard-wise, we have Doris and Tony, Frank and Dean...a little Peggy, a little Bobby...and all with one thing in mind: Sweet Dreams!
All I Do Is Dream Of You (Ensemble, Singin' In The Rain)
Baby, Dream Your Dream (Helen Gallagher, Thelma Oliver, Sweet Charity)
The Sailor Of My Dreams (Bernadette Peters, Dames At Sea)
Out Of My Dreams (Joan Roberts, Ensemble, Oklahoma)
All I Needed Was The Dream (Isabel Keating, The Boy From Oz)
I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls (Rosina Lawrence, The Bohemian Girl)
I Could Use A Dream (Tony Martin, Alice Faye, Sally, Irene And Mary)
I'll Never Have To Dream Again (Connie Boswell, Pennies From Heaven)
I Guess I'll Have To Dream The Rest (The Glenn Miller Orchestra and Ray Eberle)
I'll See You In My Dreams (Django Reinhardt)
A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes (Ilene Woods, Cinderella)
Have A Dream (Fritz Weaver, All American)
First You Dream (Daniel McDonald, Karen Ziemba, Steel Pier)
I Dreamed A Dance (Alice Ripley, Aaron Tveit, Next To Normal)
The Dream (Zero Mostel, Maria Karnilova, Fiddler On The Roof)
All I Do Is Dream Of You (Gene Kelly, Singin' In The Rain)
Dream A Little Dream Of Me (Doris Day, Day And Night)
As Long As I'm Dreaming (Tex Beneke, Garry Steven, The Glenn Miller Orchestra)
Street Of Dreams (Peggy Lee, Dream Street)
Dream Lover (Bobby Darin)
Dream Girls (Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine, Jennifer Holliday, Dream Girls)
When I First Saw You (Ben Harney, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Dream Girls)
Steppin' To The Bad Side (Ben Harney, Cleavant Derrick, Dream Girls)
And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going (Jennifer Holliday, Dream Girls)
If You Are But A Dream (Frank Sinatra)
Smoke Dreams (Jo Stafford and The Starlighters)
Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (Tony Bennett)
Dream (Dean Martin)
You Stepped Out Of A Dream (Liza Minnelli, Gently)
I Dreamed A Dream (Randy Graff, Les Miserables)
The Impossible Dream (Richard Kiley, Man Of La Mancha)
I Have Dreamed (Julie Andrews)
Once Upon A Dream (Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Sleeping Beauty)
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