Why do I post these things in the morning, when my mind is full of cobwebs and coffee grounds? One should obliterate the other, right? Like Liquid Plumber? But those "cobs" are strong (Halloween, Edgar Allen Poe kind of stuff, and wasn't there a crop across the road yesterday? I mean, don't ask me WHAT kind of crop...it's just that sometime in the last 24 hours, it got up and left?), so typing with fingers seems silly and just wrong.
It's been a fast October, and my social life is whirling! Well, for Kendall. Dinners, parties, Noel keeps calling...when are you coming for a cocktail!? I wish. But I've actually succeeded in making the entire 10th month of the year into a birthday celebration, and truth to tell, it may slop over into the 11th (huzzah), the gods willing, and my ditch/creek/eddy pool don't rise. Paris, NYC, Morton...it doesn't get much better than this.
Broadway wise, I've also been "blessed"...the find of an new/old eccentric/bagel, yet very poignant musical from 2000, A Class Act. Unpublished songs of Edward Kleban, whose grand lyrical opus was A Chorus Line, who died waaaaay too early (48?), and who stated in his will that he hoped someone someday would compile his songs into a new musical. And his partner Linda Kline and Lonny Price did just that. Listening, I find that Ed did excel at lyrics; what's missing is a Marvin Hamlisch to lift the melodies. But it's a nugget of Broadway "gold", and I look forward to sharing it on Sunday. Oh, and along with niche-y class acts, we'll sample Swing!, Waitress, Wonderful Town, a couple of cheesy themes (natch), and some lovely ballads by Ann, Michael, and Christine (tune in for last names)(as if YOU needed to!). :)
I'm going out to the kitchen now and cut myself another cuppa. Black, edging towards Turkish the way I leave it on the stove. Now where's that last slice of birthday cake?
Have Another Cup Of Tea (Company, The Likes Of Us)
Swing, Brother, Swing (Ann Hampton Callaway, Everett Bradley, Laura
Benanti, Michael Gruber, Casey MacGill, Company, Swing!)
Two And Four/Hit Me With A Hot Note And Watch Me Bounce (Laura Benanti,
Casey MacGill, Ensemble, Swing!)
I'll Be Seeing You (Ann Hampton Callaway, Swing!)
I've Got Your Number (Swen Swenson, Little Me)
Safety In Numbers (Ann Wakefield, Ensemble, The Boy Friend)
Jeanette's Showbiz Number (Kathleen Freeman, The Full Monty)
Public Enemy Number One/Let's Step Out (Margery Gray, Ensemble,
Anything Goes)
Christopher Street (Warren Galjour, Ensemble, Wonderful Town)
Ohio (Rosalind Russell, Edie Adams, Wonderful Town)
Pass The Football (Jordan Bentley, Wonderful Town)
One Hundred Easy Ways (Rosalind Russell, Wonderful Town)
Tea For Two (Roger Rathburn, Susan Watson, No, No, Nanette)
When I Take My Sugar To Tea (The Boswell Sisters)
Tea For Two Dance (Instrumental, No, No, Nanette)
Muffin Song (John Irving, Louis Edmonds, Ernest In Love)
Coffee In A Cardboard Cup (Karen Ziemba, Ensemble, And The World
Goes 'Round)
Forty Cups Of Coffee (Ella Mae Morse)
Long Ago And Far Away (Ann Hampton Callaway, Jazz Goes To The Movies)
Isn't It Romantic? (Michael Feinstein, Romance On Film, Romance On
Broadway)
You Were There (Christine Ebersole, Christine Ebersole Sings Noel Coward)
Overture (Instrumental, I Can Get It For You Wholesale)
I'm Not A Well Man (Barbra Streisand, Jack Kruschen, I Can Get It For
You Wholesale)
The Way Things Are (Elliot Gould, I Can Get It For You Wholesale)
Who Knows? (Marilyn Cooper, I Can Get It For You Wholesale)
Better (Lonny Price, Company, A Class Act)
Broadway Boogie Woogie (Carolee Carmello, A Class Act)
Gauguin's Shoes (Lonny Price, Carolee Carmello, Nancy Kathryn Anderson,
A Class Act)
What's Inside (Jessie Mueller, Waitress)
Opening Up (Jessie Mueller, Keala Settle, Kimiko Glenn, Eric Anderson, Waitress)
It Only Takes A Taste (Drew Gehling, Jessie Mueller, Waitress)
Everything Changes (Jessie Mueller, Ensemble, Waitress)
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