Playlist for Sunday, April 8, 201: A Real Broadway Dude! Here! On 2 On The Aisle! (I'm gushing.)

A special edition of 2 on the Aisle come Sunday: I'll be having a guest, John Cariani of The Band's Visit, in a telephone interview. John is one of those quadruple threats, in that he is an actor of classical plays, television, and film, a performer of musicals (which means he can sing and dance or "dance") and he is a playwright (most notably of Almost, Maine). Wait, is that a quintuple threat? (Visions of the Dions.) In The Band's Visit, John plays Itzik, a villager of Bet Hativka ("with a B"), singing the wonderful Middle Eastern-flavored score composed by David Yazbek. Thanks in advance, John, for letting me pick your Broadway brain on Sunday!

Plus, that gives me an excuse to play more selections from that show, as well as my usual favorites like Bernadette, Bandstand, Curtains, In Transit, and (yes, again) Nancy Walker. Our spring pledge drive ends on Friday, so we should have plenty of time for music, now untethered to begging or kneeling on rice entreaties! Whew! Thanks BTW if you gave to Jazz 90.1 during this drive...you make all this Broadway foo-fah-rah possible.


Waiting (Etai Benson, Andrew Polk, John Cariani, Katrina Lenk,
      Ensemble, The Band's Visit)
What Kind Of Man (Debra Monk, Ensemble, Curtains)
I Miss The Music (David Hyde-Pierce, Jason Danieley, Edward Hibbert,
      Curtains)
Thataway! (Karen Ziemba, Noah Racey, Ensemble, Curtains)
I'm The First Girl In The Second Row (Nancy Walker, Look Ma, I'm Dancing)
Come Up To My Place (Nancy Walker, Cris Alexander, On The Town)
Ya Got Me (Nancy Walker, Ensemble, On The Town)
Adventure (Nancy Walker, Phil Silvers, Do Re Mi)
A Beat Behind (Bernadette Peters, The Goodbye Girl)
Look What Happened to Mabel (Bernadette Peters, Mack & Mabel)
Being Alive (Bernadette Peters, Sondheim Etc.)
Donny Novitski (Corey Cott, Bandstand)
Love Will Come And Find Me Again (Laura Osnes, Bandstand)
Proud Riff (Instrumental, Bandstand)
Nobody (Corey Cott, Laura Osnes, Esemble, Bandstand)
Itzik's Lullaby (John Cariani, George Abud, The Band's Visit)
Omar Sharif (Katrina Lenk, The Band's Visit)
Answer Me (Adam Cantor, Company, The Band's Visit)
Deep Beneath The City/Not There Yet (Company, In Transit)
But, Ya Know (James Snyder, Margo Seibert, In Transit)
Monkeys And Playbills (Ensemble,
      [title of show])
Waiting Trio (Robert Roznowski, Jennifer Simard, Melissa Weil,
      I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change)
Accident Waiting To Happen (Sutton Foster, Troy Britton Johnson,
      The Drowsy Chaperone
Waiting, Waiting (Nancy Walker, Do Re Mi)