"Something Good", written by Richard Rodgers
(without a little help from his lyricist friends)
for the movie version of The Sound Of Music,
gets an Elaine Stritch turn on today's 2OTA.
Back in 1990, James Naughton received his first Tony for
his role as private eye Stone in
City Of Angels.
Today we'll hear his duet with Gregg Edelman from the show,
"You're Nothing Without Me."
Dorothy Loudon with "Fifty Percent"
from Ballroom,
in My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies,
produced for television back in 1998.
"Everything About You"
is from Groundhog Day (the musical),
with Andy Karl as snarky weatherman, Phil Connors.
This Tim Minchin musical did not do well enough to
muster a national tour!?
Louis Jourdan and Leslie Caron
in Gigi, 1958,
was made into a Broadway musical in 1973.
It did not do well,
which means a revival is now in the works!
We'll hear Lerner & Loewe's "You Do Something To Me."
Last year's Best Musical Tony Winner,
The Band's Visit,
with Tony Shaloub and Katrina Lenk
singing "Something Different" is sublime.
I think David Yazbek's current Broadway offering,
Tootsie,
is a show (or horse) of a different color...more in The Full Monty vein.
When Babs thought to star in the movie version of
Hello, Dolly!,
Jerry Herman wrote her a brand new song,
"Just Leave Everything To Me"
so she could soar a little moar (more)
than "I Put My Hand In" allowed.
Larry Kert and Carol Lawrence,
the original Tony and Maria
in West Side Story,
which Columbia Records did not initially want to record.
Who would ever want to listen to Leonard Bernstein's
complicated ("angular and beautiful") melodies?
Why bother with a cast album?
"Something's Coming", and it did!
Kelli O'Hara and Paulo Szot
in a revival of South Pacific.
A great Nellie and Emile...2008.
We'll sample "There is Nothing Like a Dame",
and a few more selections
from this production.
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