Broadway side dishes!

 Our More or Less corner,

above with Rae Allen and ShoeLESS Joe From Hannibal Mo.

Damn Yankees hit Broadway in 1955,

and along with its star, Gwen Verdon,

featured, from left, Russ Brown, Rae, Ray Walston,
and Steven Douglass (the shoeLESS one).

 The many faces of Jackie Hoffman,

Broadway's present-day answer to Carol Burnett,

who started off as a member of the Second City comedy troupe.

We'll hear her as Prudy Pendleton
(she also played the Gym Teacher and The Matron)
 in Hairspray.

"The Legend Of Miss BaltiMORE Crabs"

 Tony Roberts and Robert Morse

in Sugar!

PenniLESS Bums
(penniMORE in this shot, I guess!,

with the music of Jule Styne and Bob Merrill.

 And then we'll celebrate Arthur Schwartz's birthday!

Couldn't resist this pic of two Broadway darlings,

Ethel and Mary...

and Mary below with Jack De Lon,

at the recording session of Jennie,

an Arthur Schwartz/Howard Dietz creation.

 Arthur's birthday is Nov. 25th (1900).

The "plot" of Jennie:

 Married acting couple tours the states, with

many costume changes, and unlinked musical numbers.

There. Done. And so was the show.

 Shirley Booth and Ronnie Jensen

in By The Beautiful Sea,

a Schwartz/Dorothy Fields collaboration.

"Lottie Gibson Specialty"

So here's the big story about the song "I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan": Arthur got a job as a summer camp counselor 

(Brandt Lake Camp for Boys in the Adirondacks),

knowing that Lorenz Hart 

who, in his 20s, already had a lyric-writing rep, worked there.

Anyway, the two got together, writing shows for the campers,

and overwork is probably the best excuse for the Hart lyric,

"I Love To Lie Awake In Bed",

and basically never get up! 

Arthur wrote the melody, which turned out 

WORTH IT 10 years later, 

when it was  reincarnated with a Howard Dietz lyric.

The story of the song continues, with Clifton Webb,

star of The Little Show (1929)

asking (last minute, of course) for another number

that he could perform in a suit, 

and debonairly frustrate-over his lost romance with.

Voila..."I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan" 

was ferreted from Schwartz's trunk of tunes, 

with Howard providing the needed lyric make-over. 

 Of course in the Hollywood tradition,

where MORE is MORE,

it was resuscitated for use in The Band Wagon (above)

for debonair Jack Buchanan and Fred Astaire.

Arthur would go on to do 11 musicals with Howard.

He also wrote with lyricists Leo Robin, Frank Loesser,

Ira Gershwin, Yip Harburg, Johnny Mercer and Oscar Hammerstein.

He was inducted into the Song Writers Hall of Fame in 1981,

and passed away in the fall of 1984.