You Hoyden, You! :)

 Selections from the crayon box that IS 2 on the Aisle this week...

well, at least it's 1 of the 500 themes we pursue this time 'round:

 Colors.

 Here's Doris Day, wearing AND singing BLUE!

"Shakin' the Blues Away"

from Love Me Or Leave Me, 1955,

an Irving Berlin goodie originally from 

The Ziegfeld Follies of 1927.

 More Blue with Harry and Kelli:

Harry Connick Jr. and Kelli O'Hara in the 2006 revival of

The Pajama Game.

"A New Town Is A Blue Town,"

a Richard Adler/Jerry Ross gem.

 On the Feelings Theme side,

Vivien Leigh in Tovarich,

in which she played a deposed czarina of Russia,

marking time as a maid in Paris?

(You can't make this sorta stuff up.) (Wait...)

Yes, Viv sang and danced and won a Tony!

Below with Jean-Pierre Aumont...

 ...and below again, with other Tony winners from 1963:

Zero Mostel (who had won for Forum), Vivien, and

Uta Hagen and Arthur Hill 

(both of whom had won for Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolfe?)

We'll hear "I Know How You Feel"

with a Russian accent. 

 From A Connecticut Yankee,

which opened in 1927, the work of Rodgers and Hart.

Above, a pic from the 1943 revival with

Vera-Ellen and Chester Stratton.

Vera was 22 years old and still singing her own songs at that point,
not like in White Christmas where she was dubbed by
Rosemary!

We'll hear "I Feel At Home With You"

which rhymes "hoyden" with "annoyed in"

and "term it" with "hermit."

Thank you, Lorenz! 

 

Here's Gwen Verdon

feeling Merely Marvelous in

Redhead.

(The show, with music by Albert Hague and Dorothy Fields,

was originally conceived for Beatrice Lillie 

and was titled The Works.)

I never really understood the plot of this musical;

I just know it had something to do with a wax museum in London,

run by Gwen's 2 aunts (Arsenic and Old Lace, anyone?)

and that there was a murder (or several),

and that Scotland Yard makes an appearance.

This pic looks more like a turn of the century Chicago.

Gwen twisted arms (and stepped on people, evidently)

to get Bob Fosse his first shot at Broadway directing.

Lots of Tonys:

Gwen, Bob, Richard Kiley, Leonard Stone, Costume Design,

and Best Musical of 1959.

Recently revived out in CA with 

Lee (Cat Woman) Meriwether!