Playlist for Sunday, May 26, 2019: She worked hard for the money...

EVERTHING's coming up around here, specifically dandelions and lilacs and the errant wasps. No roses yet, and if they do show up, it won't be from any of my doing. Because I'm not really of the "Make Our Garden Grow" variety. I garden strictly out of peer pressure. In fact, I think I would rather clean my kitchen floor with a tooth brush than weed/mulch/trim/or plant. For these jobs, I would like to call on a staff. HOWEVER, the idea of a "staff" to fulfill pool, garden, or high tea requirements is rapidly becoming (as of next Wednesday) a total impossibility, as I will be (drum roll...wait, would bongos be cheaper?) Retiring. And on a (dare i say it?) Budget. Man, I can't even type that word without shuddering.

Best staff ever:

Hank Azaria in The Birdcage

So it will be a staff-less life for me! I'll have to fire the butler and discontinue my season tickets at the Met. (Yeah, right, like THAT'S happening.) An austerity diet of ice cubes and toothpicks. Well, the occasional Hendricks. And maybe some pate now and again. A girl can't live on NOTHING! But no way will I be able to curb my Broadway obsession. Case in point, we have 3 new musicals to "taste" this Sunday: Girl From The North Country, Be More Chill, and Ain't Too Proud. I can't say that they're all my new favorites (okay, my favorite of these is North Country), but we owe it to ourselves (and the hopefully Great White Way) to sample!

So that's SOMETHING to look forward to...new Broadway, a little more time on my "retired" hands, and a summer of sun and biking and Hendricks and pate and travel and ...see what I mean?


Slow Train Coming/License To Kill (Michael Shaeffer, Ensemble, Girl From
      The North Country)
There Is Nothin' Like A Dame (Danny Burstein, Ensemble, South Pacific)
Some Enchanted Evening (Paulo Szot, South Pacific)
Honey Bun (Kelli O'Hara, South Pacific)
Everything's Coming Up Roses (Ethel Merman, Gypsy)
Everything's Great (Kenneth Tobey, Paula Wayne, Golden Boy)
Everything About You (Andy Karl, Groundhog Day)
Everything Changes (Jessie Mueller, Waitress)
Fifty Percent (Dorothy Loudon, Ballroom/My Favorite Broadway: The Leading
      Ladies)
Time Heals Everything (Bernadette Peters, Mack & Mabel/Sondheim Etc.:
      Bernadette Peters Live At Carnegie Hall)
Something Good (Elaine Stritch, The Sound Of Music/Elaine Stritch At Liberty)
Be More Chill (Jason Tam, Will Roland, Be More Chill)
Michael In The Bathroom (George Salazar, Be More Chill)
Ain't Too Proud To Beg (Derrick Baskin, Jeremy Pope, James Harkness,
      Jawan M. Jackson, Ephraim M. Sykes, Ain't Too Proud: The Life And
      Times Of The Temptations)
Get Ready (Derrick Baskin, Jeremy Pope, James Harkness, Jawan M.
      Jackson, Ephraim M. Sykes, Ain't Too Proud: The Life And Times Of
      The Temptations)
Something's Coming (Larry Kert, West Side Story)
There's Something About You (David Christmas, Bernadette Peters, Dames
      At Sea)
Something Different (Katrina Lenk, Tony Shaloub, The Band's Visit)
Just Leave Everything To Me (Barbara Streisand, Hello, Dolly!)
Who Taught Her Everything? (Kay Medford, Danny Meehan, Funny Girl)
Everything Old Is New Again (Hugh Jackman, The Boy From Oz)
You Do Something To Me (Louis Jourdan, Gigi)
Do Something (David Josefsburg, Rob McClure, Honeymoon In Vegas)
Something To Point To (Company, Working)
Nothing Is New In New York (Ensemble, Breakfast At Tiffany's)
You're Nothing Without Me (Gregg Eddelman, James Naughton, City Of Angels)
Nothing (Priscilla Lopez, A Chorus Line)
Something (Douglas Bernstein, Upstairs At O'Neals)
Hurricane/All Along The Watchtower/Idiot Wind (Arinze Kene, Sheila Atim,
      Ensemble, Girl From The North Country)
Tight Connection To My Heart (Sheila Atim, Girl From The North Country)
Like A Rolling Stone/To Make You Feel My Love (Shirley Henderson,
      Ensemble, Girl From The North Country)