Quiet Swamps!

 Some of my favorite Broadway Quiet songs

on this Sunday's 2 on the Aisle,

like "A Quiet Thing" from Flora The Red Menace...

starring Liza Minnelli and Bob Dishy

(above with choreographer Lee Theodore).

Embarrassing aside: I took a few dance classes with Lee

back in the early 80s,

when she was starting her American Dance Machine company.

Suffice it to say, I was outta my class!

 The role of Flora might have been played 

by Barbra Streisand or Eydie Gorme;

that's who book writer Robert Russell and director George Abbott wanted!

Liza, age 19, won out, however,

and when she received the Tony for her performance,

she became the youngest actress to do so 

(til a year went by, and then Frankie Michaels, age 11, won one for Mame)!

 

 Then "A Quiet Girl"

sung by George Gaynes (2nd from the right)

in Wonderful Town.

There's Roz Russell on the left...Edith (Edie) Adams center,

and I-don't-knows on 3rd! :) 

 Sally Kellerman
(Hot Lips O'Hoolihan from M.A.S.H., sans army uniform!)

was cast in the original production of 

Breakfast At Tiffany's.

That's her below (with the very strange "hat")

with Mary Tyler Moore and Richard Chamberlain.

The flop of all flops,

this musical didn't even get a chance at a cast album

(back when EVERY show got one),

until 2001,

when Faith Prince, Hal Linden, John Schneider,

and Sally were brought together to record it.

We'll hear Sally with Bob Merrill's "Quiet Coffee."

 From Tim Minchin's Matilda,

we'll hear Sophia Gennusa (above with Lauren Ward)

sing "Quiet".

The show was a huge success in the West End,

on Broadway, and Australia.

In fact, it holds the record for most Olivier Awards won by a musical,

tying most recently with Hamilton.

 The four young ladies who starred in the 

Broadway production:

Sophia, Bailey Ryon, Oona Lawrence, and Milly Shapiro.

They received a
Tony Honors For Excellence Award in 2013.

 And we'll hear a second version

of Kander and Ebb's "A Quiet Thing"

by Marin Mazzie.

 Carol Burnett gets a mini tribute as well this week,

with selections from Once Upon A Mattress

(I can always relate to "The Swamps Of Home")...

 As Miss Hannigan in the movie version of Annie...

 As "Lila Tremaine" in Fade Out - Fade In...

And from the review, Putting It Together...

2nd from the right above,

with Bronson Pinchot, John Barrowman, Ruthie Henshall and 

George Hearn,

we'll hear "There's Always A Woman."