Playlist for Sunday, August 6, 2017: Brassy. Sassy. Sleazy.

No, they're not the 3 unknown dwarfs of Snow White fame. Though Sleazy sounds like a not too distant cousin of Sneezy. (Disney was actually toying with the following names for those small seven: Jumpy, Deafy, Dizzy, Hickey, Wheezy, Baldy, Gabby, Nifty, Sniffy, Swift, Lazy, Puffy, Stuffy, Tubby, Shorty, and Burpy. He saw the light and I'm glad.) No, it's our 2 on the Aisle theme for the day. My fave Broadway style...blaring horns, sexy saxes, brushes on the snare, smoke rings, little tables circling the dance floor, low lights, martoonis...I mean, martinis.  Broadway's equivalent of that.

Which means the sounds of Cy Coleman, Dirt, Donny Novitski (yup, the new Bandstand musical), Cool, Tiger Rag, even Roz Russell will get in on the act (Lenny's Swing swings!). A few breathers, of course...intermissions with Audra and Jessica and the Callaway Siblings...but then we'll be right back to hyperventilating with Bullets (Over Broadway, not Cheboygan) for a couple of perennial favorites.

And then I'm off. On vaca. For 4 weeks (an uber-long bike trip. I may not survive. Scatter my ashes in the gutter that fronts the Broadhurst.) Yes, you may miss the scintillating hours of LIVE 2 on the Aisle, but canned 2 on the Aisle (from the Broadway pantry) ain't too shabby. Just add water and stir, or mayo and fold, or... shake up a martooni. You Deserve It. 

Happy August.


You Deserve It (Corey Cott, Laura Osnes, Ensemble, Bandstand)
Prologue - Theme From The City Of Angels (James Naughton, Ensemble,
       City Of Angels)
They Just Keep Moving The Line (Megan Hilty, Bombshell)
Jet Set (Aaron Tveit, Company, Catch Me If You Can)
Cool (Michael Callan, Ensemble, West Side Story)
I Understand (Robert Chisholm, On The Town)
Three Dance Episodes (Instrumental, On The Town)
Swing! (Rosalind Russell, Wonderful Town)
Dance At The Gym (Instrumental, West Side Story)
Dirt (Ensemble, The Sweet Smell Of Success)
That Dirty Old Man (Ruth Kobart, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way
       To The Forum)
Dirty Rotten Number (John Lithgow, Norbert Leo Butz, Dirty Rotten  
       Scoundrels)
We Deserve Each Other (Joan McCracken, Bob Fortier, Me and Juliet)
The Best Thing For You (Ethel Merman, Call Me Madam)
Could You Use Me? (Eddie Chappell, Louise Carlyle, Girl Crazy)
Right Hand Man (Heidi Blickenstaff, Something Rotten!)
Donny Novitski (Corey Cott, Bandstand)
Love Will Come And Find Me Again (Laura Osnes, Bandstand)
Nobody (Corey Cott, Laura Osnes, Ensemble, Bandstand)
Bosom Buddies (Angela Lansbury, Bea Arthur, Mame)
Secondary Characters (Susan Blackwell, Heidi Blickenstaff, [title of show])
Friendship (Ann Hampton Callaway, Liz Callaway, Sibling Revelry)
With You On My Arm (Gene Barry, George Hearn, La Cage Aux Folles)
Wonderful You (Audra McDonald, Build A Bridge)
Stars And The Moon (Jessica Molaskey, Songs For A New World)
Baltimore (Audra McDonald, Go Back Home)
Can't Take You Nowhere (Jessica Molaskey, Dave Frishberg,
       At The Algonquin)
Tiger Rag (Nick Cordera, Vincent Pastore, Helene Yorke, Ensemble,
       Bullets Over Broadway)
Tain't A Fit Night Out For Man Or Beast (Gangster Ensemble, Flappers,
       Bullets Over Broadway)
The Hot Dog Song (Helene Yorke, John Borstelmann, Bullets Over Broadway)