As I type this, I am breathing fresh, non-airconditioned, COOL air. It's Wednesday. After 1 heat way, before another. So the window is open, the birds are twittering, a soothing waft of air moves my "summer" curtains (the gauzy kind, not my "winter" curtains that are made of black thermo-nuclear steel), and this is how it might have been for Oscar and Richard when they wrote those "Oh What A Beautiful...fill in your own noun here" type of songs. Me? I will never wax so poetic, finding it challenging this "morning" to put a sentence together, on this my first cuppa joe. A week of snafus has crimped my style, sending me literally limping into this blog...
And yet like Oscar Jaffe (On The Twentieth Century), I rise again! We have Trains and Boats and Planes: The Conveyances of Broadway...chugging us into Sunday's 2 On The Aisle. Need a lift (Lyft)? An Uber? The #4? An Edsel? A Wells Fargo? An LIRR connection? Can't get there on your own power? This is the show for you. Cuz life is like a train. Chuffing away, delayed at a station, flat tires, autobahn speeds, or a hole in your shoe...are we there yet?
Side (track) note: Otto Bruno (hey, I almost typed Harbach! HAH!) keeps hounding me that my Broadway has gone "beyond" Broadway. That I'm stepping on his presently-sandaled toes, playing stuff HE plays. And he's right. But "is it a crime" to add those wonderful old movie songs, those blast from the past TV clips, those Shirley Temple treats and Tyrone Power (he sings, he dances, he moves about to muuuuusic!) o-sole-mios?? Every niche of the entertainment world has AISLES and I want 2 seats saved me for, no matter where that aisle exists. Backatcha Otto. Like Buzz Lightyear, I am Broadway "and Beyond".
Show Train (Ensemble, Two On The Aisle)
Shuffle Off To Buffalo (Carole Cook, Joseph Bova, 42nd Street)
Waitin' For The Evening Train (Mary Martin, Jennie)
Choo Choo Love (Jim Stanek, Kitty's Kisses)
Ridin' On The Gravy Train (Jo Stafford, Yes Indeed!)
Life Is Like A Train (Ensemble, On The 20th Century)
Go Home Train (Carol Burnett, Fade Out Fade In)
Subway Directions (Sydney Chaplin, Ensemble, Subways Are For Sleeping)
Deep Beneath The City/Not There Yet (Company, In Transit)
Chattanooga Choo Choo (Tyrone Power, Judy Holliday, Janet Blair, Kay Starr)
Burlington Bertie From Bow (Julie Andrews, Star!)
How'd You Like To Spoon With Me? (Angela Lansbury, Til The Clouds Roll By)
Mister Snow (Lindsay Mendez, Jessie Mueller, Carousel)
If I Loved You (Jessie Mueller, Joshua Henry, Carousel)
June Is Bustin' Out All Over (Renee Fleming, Company, Carousel)
When The Children Are Asleep (Alexander Gemignani, Lindsay
Mendez, Carousel)
The Wells Fargo Wagon (Eddie Hodges, Ensemble, The Music Man)
Let's Take A Walk Around The Block (Graham Rowat, Jessica Stone,
Life Begins At 8:40
On A Bicycle Built For Two (Dinah Shore)
Travel Hopefully (Michael Aldridge, David Hemmings, By Jeeves)
Walking Among My Yesterdays (Robert Goulet, The Happy Time)
Sail Away (David Holliday, Sail Away)
Coney Island Boat (Shirley Booth, Ensemble, By The Beautiful Sea
There's A Boat Dat's Leaving Soon For New York (Ann Hampton Callaway,
Liz Callaway, Sibling Revelry)
In The Same Boat (David Hyde Pierce, Karen Ziemba, Ensemble, Curtains)
Sit Down You're Rockin' The Boat (Stubby Kaye, Guys And Dolls)
The Crew Song (John McMartin, Anything Goes)
My Ship (Maria Freedman, Lady In The Dark)
When My Ship Comes Home (Christine Ebersole, Christine Ebersole Sings
Noel Coward)
Friendship (Sutton Foster, Joel Grey, Anything Goes)
On The Good Ship Lollipop (Shirley Temple, Bright Eyes)
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