Playlist For Sunday, April 14, 2019: Every Day A Little...dance break!

I guess I should have dreamt up this playlist in November, that dank tarn of Auber sort of month, with all the leaves crisp-ed and sere and dead. But it's been pretty tarn-y around here lately, with Spring mucking about most of the time, Weir-y and sans blossoms. Even the dead limbs on my trees are (presently) being trimmed away by men with buzzing saws...All this to explain this Sunday's theme: Broadway Death!

Yup, lots of death and dying on Broadway, but most of it with tap breaks! The Grim Reaper with a top hat and cane, shuffling off to Perdition in a kick line with Charon! THAT sorta death, okay? No down in the dumps death here...well, maybe a couple of poignant farewells, but that's just to add variety. We'll also do some GONE and some GOODBYE, then lighten it all up with Shrek (!?) and Kate (of Kiss Me!)...so a good time will "shirley" be had by all. :)

(Oh, and lest I forget: Sondheim Sings Sondheim...I've just discovered that SS made recordings of him SINGING his own songs. I had to have it! So prepare: you'll have to put up with his sometimes-out-of-tune renditions of rejects and also-rans and gems.)

Of course by the time this Sunday gets here, it'll probably be sunny and 70 and the cherry trees will be obnoxiously in bloom. None of this will make any sense at all. But remember then that it was a tarny Tuesday when this playlist was birthed. So deal. :)



He Is Not Dead Yet (Christian Borle, Hank Azaria, Spamalot)
This Is A Darned Fine Funeral (Carol Channing, Show Girl)
The Black Death (Ensemble, Something Rotten!)
Funeral Sequence (Zero Mostel, Ron Holgate,  A Funny Thing Happened
      On The Way To The Forum)
All Aboard (John Byner, The Frogs)
(I'll Be Glad When You're Dead) You Rascal, You (Ensemble, Bullets Over
      Broadway)
Live Before We Die (Nathan Lane, Bebe Neuwirth, The Addams Family)
The Woman's Dead (Debra Monk, Edward Hibbert, Company, Curtains)
Who's Sorry Now? (Erzsebet Foldi, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer, All That Jazz)
Truly Content (Stephen Sondheim, Sondheim Sings)
Oh, To Be A Movie Star (Barbara Harris, The Apple Tree)
Pleasant Little Kingdom (Stephen Sondheim, Sondheim Sings)
Pleasant Little Kingdom/Too Many Mornings (Mandy Patinkin, Judy Blazer
      Follies) 
Story Of My Life (John Tartaglia, Ensemble, Shrek The Musical)
Morning Person (Sutton Foster, Shrek The Musical)
The Ballad Of Farquaad (Christopher Sieber, Shrek The Musical)
Another Op'nin, Another Show (Adriane Lenox, Company, Kiss Me, Kate)
We Open In Venice (Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Harold Lang,
      Lisa Kirk, Kiss Me, Kate)
Wunderbar (Marin Mazzie, Brian Stokes-Mitchell, Kiss Me, Kate)
When I'm Gone (Steven Pasquale, Bridges Of Madison County)
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone (Doris Day)
After You've Gone (Judy Garland, Judy At Carnegie Hall)
She's Gone (Stephen Bogardus, A.J. Shively, Bright Star)
I'm Gone (Kelli Mangrum, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Hands On A Hardbody)
Be Good Or Be Gone (Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, Pump Boys And Dinettes)
Reet, Petite, And Gone (Jerry Dixon, Jeffrey Sams, Doug Eskew, Ensemble,
      Five Guys Name Moe)
Every Day A Little Death (Vitoria Mallory, Patricia Elliot, A Little Night Music)
Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story (Leslie Odom, Jr., Lin-Manuel
      Miranda, Ensemble, Hamilton)
Every Time We Say Goodbye (Ball State Cabaret Singers,Sutton Foster: Live
     At The Carlyle)
Before I Kiss The World Goodbye (Mary Martin, Jennie)
We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye (Annette Hanshaw)
Goodbye (The Prince's Farewell) (Sid Caesar, Little Me)
Goodbye! (Ensemble, The Producers)