Playlist For March 1, 2020: Conditionally Yours!

Huzzah! Tis March! Well, almost, as I type this. But the sun is streaming about, teasing me to think "Tra Lah", as in Julie Andrew's lusty month of May. Disgusting ice, wind, sleet, and stock prices will of course fall about me in the next few weeks, til the real SPRING comes along and "springs" us up again, but it does give one hope to feel 50 degrees, not 5. So I will take advantage of lusty temps and tra lah lah the hell out of it. :)

 Hold on to your hoop, Julie.

It ain't that lusty. Yet.

Meanwhile, let's dissect some Broadway. Two types of songs will be placed on the microscope slides this coming Sunday: The Conditional Love Song and The Character Song. The first (hmmmm...what would it be like to love you? Would it work? Shall we try it on alternate Tuesdays?) brings the 2 main characters together (Act One, Scene 2?) to ponder/argue/dream about an alliance. And the more opposite those 2 are, the more fun! I mean if they were 2 peas in an effing pod, who would care? Who would buy tickets to that?

 From Carousel couples

to Mormon mates...

The second (the cute, quirky, lyric-clever, brief, and hopefully humorous Character Song) is usually invented for the secondary character(s) to sing, a little comic relief that doesn't actually further the plot, but allows us to breathe and laugh and wallow in a respite from all the drama. Gladys and Prez, Ado Annie, Gooch, and Winthrop. Love a good Character Song, maybe a little TOO much.

 "Her Is"

maybe both a Conditional and a Character song

wrapped together.

It's a floor wax AND a dessert topping!

 A Gooch and a Mame

So half Conditional, half Character this Sunday...I'm calling it the Half and Half Edition, like the coffee creamer. Like coffee needs cream? Whatever. Or the 2, 2, 2 Mints In One! Edition (that's dating me, for sure). Tune in for Iffy and (sometimes) Squiffy this Sunday...


Her Is (Stanley Prager, Carol Haney, The Pajama Game)
I'll Know (Peter Gallagher, Josie De Guzman, Guys And Dolls)
The Tennis Song (James Naughton, Dee Hoty, City Of Angels)
What Do You Want Of Me? (Joan Diener, Man of La Mancha)
If I Loved You (Jan Clayton, John Raitt, Carousel)
Make Believe (Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Show Boat)
Vanilla Ice Cream (Laura Benanti, She Loves Me)
Long Before I Knew You (Syd Chaplin, Judy Holliday, Bells Are Ringing)
Twin Soliloquies (Mary Martin, Ezio Pinza, South Pacific)
Who Knows What Might Have Been (Carol Lawrence, Syd Chaplin,
       Subways Are For Sleeping)
Barcelona (Dean Jones, Susan Browning, Company)
We Could Be Close (Robert Morse, Elaine Joyce, Sugar)
People Will Say We're In Love (Alfred Drake, Joan Roberts, Oklahoma!)
We Can Do It (Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, The Producers)
What Is This Feeling? (Idina Menzel, Kristen Chenoweth, Wicked)
You I Like (Michael Feinstein, Jerry Herman, The Grand Tour)
You And Me (But Mostly Me)(Andrew Rannells, Josh Gad, The Book
      Of Mormon)
Tom, Dick, Or Harry (Lisa Kirk, Harold Lang, Edwin Clay, Charles Wood,
       Kiss Me Kate)
The Three Of Us (Michael McKean, Megan Lawrence, The Pajama Game)
Drop That Name (Judy Holliday, Ensemble, Bells Are Ringing)
Be Like The Bluebird (Mickey Deems, Anything Goes)
One Hundred Easy Ways (Rosalind Russell, Wonderful Town)
I Cain't Say No (Gloria Grahame, Oklahoma!)
I'm Past My Prime (Edie Adams, Stubby Kaye, Li'l Abner)
Gooch's Song (Jane Connell, Mame)
Gee, Officer Krupke (Russ Tamblyn, The Jets, West Side Story)
Brush Up Your Shakespeare (Harry Clark, Jack Diamond, Kiss Me Kate)
Gary, Indiana (Eddie Hodges, The Music Man)
I Just Can't Wait (Orson Bean, Subways Are For Sleeping)
How Could You Believe Me When I Said I Love You When You Know I've Been
       A Liar All My Life? (Fred Astaire, Jane Powell, Royal Wedding)
Lovely (Zero Mostel, Jack Gilford, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To
       The Forum)
What's Gonna Happen (Sarah Stiles, Tootsie)
Roll In The Hay (Roger Bart, Sutton Foster, Christopher Fitzgerald,
       Young Frankenstein)