Playlist for Sunday, May 12, 2019: Mom Would Understand. Plus theatre tickets are better then flowers ANY day.

No Mother's Day show I know of starts with the Road To Hell. Stephen Sondheim might not agree with this, but let's say at least it shouldn't. So I am going to leave the mother songs to Otto and his Sunday Music Festa (noon to 2pm on Jazz90.1): Sinatra, Rosemary, Dean, Julius, et.al. I can't compete with his heart-string-tugging playlist on the Mom Dial. So I'll just say, right now, "Happy Mother's Day," and run off and play Hadestown!

 Somebody's mom

Which is up for 14 Tonys, come June 9th, and although I haven't heard all the nominees (the cast albums, in CD form, are releasing later and later), I think Hades will come home with a LOT of them. Let me know your thoughts...I find the music compelling. No clue of course if the book or the characterizations fall short, as I've yet to actually see the production, but if The Music "tells" like it did for Hamilton, this is telling me "pssst....Best Musical!"

And then I had to connect Hades with all things BAD, like bad luck (spoiler: Bad Luck for Eurydice), and another theme was born. Lady Luck, along with all the things you need her for, like poker and horse-racing and Vegas and Monte Carlo. And Love. :) So there's that. PLUS they're out there playing some sort of sport across my road, I think it's baseball (tho it could be cricket...in Kendall? Nahhhh), so I went and found 4 Broadway Does Baseball songs (discounting the over-played Yankees, damn 'em!). So these will be refreshing if censored, Jewish if Charlie Brownish.

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That's it. Kiss your mother. Then come hear the music play!


Road To Hell (Chris Sullivan, Company, Hadestown)
With A Little Bit Of Luck (Stanley Holloway, My Fair Lady)
Luck Be A Lady (Peter Gallagher, Guys And Dolls)
Lucky To Be Me (John Battles, On The Town)
(I've Got) Beginner's Luck (Fred Astaire, Shall We Dance)
I Feel My Luck Comin' Down (Stanley Wayne Mathis, St. Louis Woman)
He Tossed A Coin (Hal Linden, The Rothschilds)
Three Coins In A Fountain (Jason Graae, Stan Chandler, David Engel,
      Guy Stroman, Forever Plaid)
When You Say Vegas (David Josefsberg, Tony Danza, Honeymoon In Vegas)
The Invitation/Forever Starts Tonight (Tony Danza, Rob McClure, Honeymoon
      In Vegas)
Higher Love (David Josefsberg, Rob McClure, Honeymoon In Vegas)
Politics And Poker (Howard DaSilva, Ensemble, Fiorello!)
Fugue For Tinhorns (Walter Bobbie, J.K. Simmons, Timothy Shew, Guys
      And Dolls)
Ascot Gavotte (Ensemble, My Fair Lady)
Sweepin' The Clouds Away (Maurice Chevalier, Paramount On Parade)
The Cider Song (Instrumental, Harry James Angus)
Building A Nest For Mary (Red Nichols and The Captivators, with Henry
      Scrappy Lambert)
There's A Wah Wah Girl in Agua Caliente (Isham Jones & His Orchestra, with
      Eddie Jones)
T-E-A-M (The Baseball Game)(Gary Burghoff, Reva Rose, Bob Balaban,
      You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown)
The Baseball Game (Christian Borle, Company, Falsettos)
What A Game (Mark Jacoby, Alex Strange, Ragtime)
There Goes The Ball Game/How Lucky Can You Get (Karen Mason, Karen
      Ziemba, Jim Walton, Bob Cuccioli, And The World Goes 'Round)
Monte Carlo (Evan Pappas, Mary Testa, Lucky Stiff)
I'm Unlucky At Gambling (Kim Criswell, Fifty Million Frenchmen)
How Can I Change My Luck? (Walter Bobbie, Face The Music)
You Are My Lucky Star (Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Singin' In The Rain)
You Never Say Good Luck On Opening Night (Mathew Broderick, Ensemble,
      The Producers)
Way Down Hadestown (Amber Gray, Company, Hadestown)
When The Chips Are Down (Patrick Page, Nabiyah Be, Shaina Taub, Jessie
      Shelton, Lulu Fall, Hadestown)
Wait For Me (Damon Daunno, Chris Sullivan, Company, Hadestown)
Road To Hell II (Chris Sullivan & Company, Hadestown)