Playlist For December 29, 2019: ROAR!

2020 sounds a little science fiction-y, right? Like Lost In Space or I, Robot or something. Like I should be Broadway-broadcasting from Mars.

 These dudes look ready for Broadway!

(Quick aside: I think my cat just ate a mouse. He's been standing guard all morning, watching SOMETHING behind my Meditation Room door. And now he's on my lap, starting to heave. This will not do. Go throw-up on the throw rug. And avoid my RED SHOES!)

(Quicker aside: You think I meditate just because I have a Meditation Room? Surely, Shirley...you jest! I am a Type A if ever there was one.)

 Not my Meditation Room.

Meanwhile, here we are entering The Roaring Twenties 2.0! Time for bathtub gin and bobbed hair (check and check)...and a party! I have a flapper skirt. You have a flapper skirt (well, you should and if you don't, check out TJMaxx or PENNIES???). They'll be all the rage come New Year's Eve, which we'll celebrate on Sunday (yes, come early, stay late!) with Astaire, Bacall, Coward, Garland, and a zillion other merry makers. We'll Put On The Ritz, never go Dry, Fasten Our Seat Belts, and be The Life Of The Party til The Party's Over. Confetti will be tossed. Noise-makers noised. And bubbles imbibed.

Yup, that's a flash-forward to 

this coming Sunday's 2 On The Aisle.
(I'm the one way in the back, trying to push the right buttons.)

I've had a fabulous year with you,"dear listeners"! Thanks for letting me invade your brain with Broadway! Happy New Year! 


It's Today (Angela Lansbury, Mame)
Top Hat, White Tie, And Tails (Fred Astaire, Top Hat)
The Life Of The Party (David Wayne, The Happy Time)
I Went To A Marvelous Party (Noel Coward)
Somebody's Going To Throw A Big Party (Ensemble, Fifty Million Frenchmen)
Such A Merry Party (Ensemble, Little Mary Sunshine)
Dry (Mandy Patinkin, Ensemble, The Wild Party)
Well, Did You Evah? (Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, High Society)
Fasten Your Seatbelts (Lauren Bacall, Len Cariou, Applause)
They Just Keep Moving The Line (Megan Hilty, Bombshell)
With One Look (Patti LuPone, Sunset Boulevard)
Being Alive (Bernadette Peters)
The Way You Look Tonight (Fred Astaire, Swing Time)
I Want To Be Seen With You (Sydney Chaplin, Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl)
Outside Of That, I Love You (Summer Strallen, Tom Chambers, Top Hat)
Shall We Dance (Bobby Short, K-RA-ZY For Gershwin)
Shall We Dance (Gertrude Lawrence, Yul Brynner, The King And I)
Dance With Me (Tonight At The Mardi Gras)(New York Voices, Louisiana
      Purchase)
Tango De Amor (Instrumental, The Addams Family)
Gotta Dance (Gene Kelly, Singin' In The Rain)
The More We Dance (John Lithgow, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
I Could Have Danced All Night (Lauren Ambrose, My Fair Lady)
There's No Business Like Show Business (Elaine Stritch, Elaine Stritch At
     Liberty)
That's My Boy (Elaine Stritch, Stritch)
You Took Advantage Of Me (Elaine Stritch, On Your Toes)
If (Elaine Stritch, Two On The Aisle)
Puttin' On The Ritz (Clark Gable, Idiot's Delight)
Puttin' On The Ritz (Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Young Frankenstein)
Puttin' On The Ritz (Fred Astaire, Blue Skies)
Puttin' On The Ritz (Roger Bart, Shuler Hensley, Young Frankenstein)
The Party's Over (Judy Garland, Judy Garland Live!)
The Party's Over (Judy Holiday, Bells Are Ringing)
The Party's Over (Leslie Odom, Jr., Leslie Odom, Jr.)
The Party's Over (Elaine Stritch, Elaine Stritch At Liberty)
Last Night Of The Year (Tom Wopat, Consider It Swung)
Auld Lang Syne (Shirley Temple)
Auld Lang Syne (Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians)