Playlist For Sunday, February 3, 2018: With Croutons

About this time of the year, I like to stick my head in a bowl of soup. I know it's winter. I know it's upstate NY. I know frostbite makes you more acerbic/sarcastic/edgy and those are all good things. But enough is enough. Can't we just skip the Polar Vortex and catapult into May ONE YEAR?

That said (that typed), it probably is a good idea for the roads to be icy and the thermostat to be extremely negative, because otherwise I would most likely break hip training "rules" and skip out for a drive. Still being chauffeured around for about 2 more weeks, which is fine because who wants to get out in this weather anyway? (Note to self: Tip Chauffeur.)

How to prevent cabin fever? Hot soup, hot coffee, hot Netflix and hot Broadway. Sleazy hustlers and con men (Sweet Smell, Catch Me). Business as usual (but don't "Try"). The wonderful Kaye Ballard (Carnival, The Golden Apple, "In Other Words"....really!). And always more. It all keeps me "Humming"!

And more from The Prom, which I'm sure will be nominated/getting Tony Awards this coming spring. I've heard from those who've seen it that it's a lot of fun. From the music alone (which is only half the "story"), I can't tell if it's great or just really annoying. Hey, Broadway Road Trip! Well...after the weather changes and after my right hip says so. Meanwhile, batten down those hatches (I have a hatch?), plunge your appendages into a corn chowdah, and dream of May. :)


Smash! (Megan Hilty, Bombshell)
Welcome To The Night (John Lithgow, Bryan d'Arcy James, Sweet Smell
      Of Success)
Use What you Got (Sam Harris, The Life)
Give Them What They Want (John Lithgow, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
The Pinstripes Are All That They See (Tom Wopat, Aaron Tveit, Catch Me If
      You Can)
Lazy Afternoon (Kaye Ballard, The Golden Apple)
Direct From Vienna (Kaye Ballard, Henry Lascoe, Ensemble, Carnival)
Humming (Kaye Ballard, Henry Lascoe, Carnival)
Always, Always You (Kaye Ballard, Carnival)
Show Off (Sutton Foster, An Evening With Sutton Foster: Live At The Cafe
      Carlyle)
Chanson (Betty Buckley, Story Songs)
Vanilla Ice Cream (Laura Benanti, She Loves Me)
If I Were A Rich Man (Katrina Lenk, MCC Miscast Gala 2018)
The Beat Of Your Heart (Andrew Polk, Ensemble, The Band's Visit)
Itzik's Lullaby (John Cariani, The Band's Visit)
Papi Hears The Ocean (Etai Benson, The Band's Visit)
Something Different (Katrina Lenk, The Band's Visit)
I Won't Dance (Kaye Ballard, Jack Cassidy)
Stepsisters' Lament (Kaye Ballard, Alice Ghostley, Cinderella)
In Other Words (Kaye Ballard)
Maybe This Time (Kaye Ballard)
How To (Robert Morse, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying)
Around Here (Allison Janey, Ensemble, 9 To 5)
Coffee, Black (Daniel H. Jenkins, Jan Neuberger, Jon Cypher, Big The Musical)
Mister Cellophane (John C. Reilly, Chicago)
I Get Myself Out (Stubby Kaye, Grind)
Invisible (Patti LuPone, Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown)
Changing Lives (Brooks Ashmanskas, Beth Leavel, The Prom)
You Happened  (Caitlin Kinnunen, Isabelle McCalla, The Prom)
It's Not About Me (Beth Leavel, The Prom)
The Acceptance Song (Christopher Sieber, Company, The Prom)