So it's that time of year again. From now until Jan 2nd, it is a roasted/creamy/sugar-laden/pate-encrouted holiday slog...and fat suits (which I have a "Brand New One" of) are available (for free!) (or BOGO!) in Aisle 2! That's what it feels like. If you're not planning a dinner, burning a pie, or re-newing your first-name-only friendship with the local liquor store owner, you're not really celebrating! Unless it's Ugly Sweater Day, and then you're just boppin' around, sporting your poly-knit-lit-up-Rudolph, saying "Mine's uglier than your's".
Ahhhh, the holidays. But we ain't going there yet. We're just groaning over the groaning board, with MORE, not LESS. Oliver is here asking for 2nds, Luisa wants MUCH MORE, and Miss BaltiMORE Crabs remembers when she HAD MORE. LESS comes into play as well, tho there are LESS songs with LESS than MORE. Hmmmm...we will be forced to play Piano LESSons, and go ShoeLESS in Missouri, and PenniLESS in Chi-town.
We'll also toast Arthur, as in the Schwartz variety, because it is his natal day on November 25, born 117 years ago, composer of classics like "You And The Night And The Music", all that wonderful Band Wagon stuff, "Alone Together"...I could go on and on, and may, come Sunday. He is also the father of Jonathan Schwartz, NYC radio personality and expert on all things cabaret and Broadway and American song-booky. He tells the story of one of the first versions of "I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan", with a young, not-yet-Papa Schwartz and Lorenz Hart cooking it up with lyrics that had to do with camping. More on that tale later in the blog, but so glad Howard D. showed up in the "Nick" of time to excise the tents!
Til Sunday then...I'm on bread and water. For the next 2 hours anyway. :)
Food, Glorious Food (Ensemble, Oliver!)
Oliver! (Willoughby Goddard, Bruce Prochnik, Oliver!)
Who Will Buy? (Bruce Prochnik, Ensemble, Oliver!)
It's A Fine Life (Georgia Brown, Oliver!)
It Couldn't Please Me More (The Pineapple Song)(Lotte Lenya, Jack Gilford,
Cabaret)
I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore (Alfred Drake, Gigi)
The More We Dance (John Lithgow, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
Much More (Rita Gardner, The Fantasticks)
The More You Ruv Someone (Ann Harada, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Avenue Q)
Baltimore (Audra McDonald, Go Back Home)
The Legend Of Miss Baltimore Crabs (Jackie Hoffman, Hairspray)
Alone Together (Judy Garland, Judy Garland At Carnegie Hall)
No One Is Alone (Ann Hampton Callaway, Blues In The Night)
Shoeless Joe From Hannibal, Mo (Rae Allen, Ensemble, Damn Yankees)
Don't Be Anything Less Than Everything You Can Be (David Garrison,
Terry Kerwin, Vicki Lewis, Snoopy)
Piano Lessons (Barbara Cook, Pert Kelton, The Music Man)
Penniless Bums (Robert Morse, Tony Roberts, Sugar)
Slappin' The Cakes On Me (Dave Frishberg, At The Algonquin)
The Cake I Had (Mary Louise Wilson, Christine Ebersole, Grey Gardens)
Some Girls Can Bake A Pie (Larry Kert, Paige O'Hara, Of Thee I Sing)
Waitin' For The Evening Train (Mary Martin, Jennie)
When You're Far Away From New York Town (Jack De Lon, Jennie)
Lottie Gibson Specialty (Shirley Booth, By The Beautiful Sea)
Hang Up (Mae Barnes, By The Beautiful Sea)
You And The Night And The Music (Enric Madriguera and His Orchestra,
with Tony Sacco on Vocals)
Make The Man Love Me (Barbara Cook, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn)
Gotta Brand New Suit (Nanette Fabray, Fred Astaire, The Band Wagon
Rainy Night In Rio (The Andrews Sisters)
Triplets (Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray, Jack Buchanan, The Bandwagon)
I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plans (Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan,
The Bandwagon)
That's Entertainment (Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan, Nanette Fabray,
Oscar Levant, The Bandwagon)
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