Playlist For Sunday, Nov. 24th, 2019: Over the river, to cocoanut cream!

 A listener, just fresh from a class in heraldry (wha...?), has offered (maybe)(if I spin the right Broadway?) to render me a coat of arms. To include items depicting MOI! No doubt it will have a bike, a mic, a boa, and either a soupcon of coffee or gin toddy as (just some!) of its many symbols. Wouldn't that be marvy? It occurs to me that we ALL should have one, in Size XL, to hang above the mantel and toast to, on sodden moor-ish nights with flames licking the ...mantel. Whatever. Sounds brilliant!

 Definitely not mine.

Note kangaroo.

Note no boas.

 Tho I do like the air of air-rogance.

But moving on.

Okay, so just consider this the Broadway Thanksgiving Show, like the Macy's parade only smaller, less visual...in fact not like a parade at all, just full of ego and WANTING to be parade. (And btw, don't rain on it.) A meek little radio show with nary a few thankful songs, because Broadway seems pretty challenged to come up with a goodly share of Thanksgiving music, lemme tell ya. Not that many "Over The River and Through The Woods" kinda tunes. Just Oliver's "Food" and Scrooge's "Thank You Very Much." Voila: Done.

 Nice goblet, Albert!

So we will make hay (and other vegetarian side dishes) with themes about MORE and A LOT and a few lullabies (when the turkey tryptophans kick in), plus a few goofy numbers to wake you up again for that turkey sandwich and extra piece of my Aunt Maggie's cocoanut cream pie around 9pm. Well, that's what my grandpa always wanted. (His nickname was Wild Bill. Surprised? What a coat of arms HE would have had!)

 Not me.

But almost. :)

So Happy Thanksgiving, and even if you don't celebrate it, have a hopefully long weekend, with a minimum of frantic shopping. Stop and smell the pumpkin, drink the nog, put your feet up...and contemplate that damn coat (of many "colors")!


Food, Glorious Food (Ensemble, Oliver!)
Thank You Very Much (Anton Rodgers, Albert Finney, Scrooge)
We Want To Thank You Herbert Hoover (Ensemble, Annie)
Thanks For The Memory (Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, The Big Broadcast Of 1938)
Thank You So Much (Elizabeth Allen, Sergio Franchi, Do I Hear A Waltz?)
Oliver! (Willoughby Goddard, Bruce Prochnik, Oliver!)
If I Could Give You More (Harry Connick, Jr., Blue Light, Red Light)
It Couldn't Please Me More (Lotte Lenya, Jack Gilford, Cabaret)
Much More (Rita Gardner, The Fantasticks)
A Lot Of Livin' To Do (Dick Gautier, Bye Bye Birdie)
She's Got The Lot (George S. Irving, Irma's Admirers, Irma La Douce)
A Lot Woise (Jeff Blumenkrantz, Brett Ryback, Murder For Two)
A Lot Of Livin' To Do (Patti LuPone, Don't Monkey With Broadway)
His Name Is Lancelot (Hank Azaria, Christian Borle, Spamalot)
Moonshine Lullaby (Bernadette Peters, Annie Get Your Gun)
Tender Shepard (Margalo Gillmore, Kathleen Nolan, Ensemble, Peter Pan)
Itzik's Lullaby (John Cariani, George Abud, The Band's Visit)
No Lullabies For Luis (Josie De Guzman, Ray Contreras, Company,
     Runaways)
Lullaby Of Broadway (Jerry Orbach, Wanda Richert, Company, 42nd Street)
Once In The Highlands/Brigadoon (Instrumental, Brigadoon)
I'll Go Home With Bonnie Jean (Jimmy Thompson, Gene Kelly, Van Johnson,
       Brigadoon)
The Heather On The Hill (Gene Kelly, Brigadoon)
What More Do I Need? (David Campbell, Lauren Ward, Ensemble,
       Saturday Night)
A Little More Mascara (George Hearn, La Cage Aux Folles)
The More You Ruv Someone (Ann Harada, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Avenue Q)
More I Cannot Wish You (John Carpenter, Guys And Dolls)
The More I See You (Michael Feinstein, Romance On Film, Romance On
       Broadway)
(The Legend Of ) Miss Baltimore Crabs (Linda Hart, Hairspray)
This Thing (John Behlmann, Tootsie)
Ruffhousin' mit Shuffhausen (John Lithgow, Norbert Leo Butz,
       Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
Transylvania Mania (Christopher Fitzgerald, Roger Bart, Sutton Foster,
       Villagers With Torches, Young Frankenstein)