More of My Favorite THINGS!

 Michael Feinstein's

wonderful "Wanna Sing A Show Tune"

will launch us, a song written by Ray Jessell.

Michael, at age 21, was introduced to Ira Gershwin,

who asked him to catalogue his record collection and 

sheet music (some of it unpublished).

Six years later, it was done,

giving Michael a "college education" in 

The Brothers Gershwin, and the American Songbook!

 If you don't know this scene from Guys And Dolls,

I don't think we have anything to say to each other.

Vivian Blaine chuckin' the satin
(or is it taffeta? It wrinkles so easily!)

and the MINK with her Hot Box Girls

 Lorenzo Fuller in a still from Kiss Me, Kate...

Lorenzo played Paul (assistant to "Fred Graham" in the show), 

and performed "Too Darn Hot" with

Fred Davis and Eddie Sledge.

Lorenzo would go on to do radio shows, musical direction,

and vocal coaching.

Below, the movie version,

in which the song was given to Ann Miller,

and those "Kinsey Reports" were changed

to just plain "latest reports."

And yet wasn't this table-top dance just as sexy as Kinsey?  

(And probably sexier, if Kinsey looked like Bob Mueller.)

 Nancy Walker as Hildy

and Cris Alexander as Chip

in the original production of On The Town.

Love see-thru cars :)

"Come Up To My Place"

 "Elegance" from Hello, Dolly!

Charles Nelson Reilly, Eileen Brennan, Jerry Dodge and Sondra Lee

Note Horse. Are those chorine legs peaking out under the fringe?

 Love Leslie Uggams

in Hallelujah, Baby!

A Jule Styne/Comden and Green show 

that won 24 year old Leslie a Tony!

Best Musical of 1968

"My Own Morning"

 Tony Danza and Rob McClure 

come to some sort of "Agreement"

in Honeymoon in Vegas...

And the marvelous Sutton Foster

pledges not to "Show Off" anymore,

in The Drowsy Chaperone,

Best Score and Best Book Tonys back in 2006.