Right off to bat:
Disclaimer #1...In the VERY FIRST number of this week's show, Patti LuPone assures us that "everyone who stays home is dead" and that SHE certainly won't be parked in her living room "knitting." Just so you know, this week/this month/this spring, Patti is doing just that, sitting home "knitting!" Just cuz some old song from Gypsy is spouting that kind of advice doesn't mean that NOW is the time to "get out!" (BTW, Patti has some adorable videos out there where she is seen giving tours of her basement/rec room, where she is presently parked, complete with LuPone paraphernalia, like a great JUKE BOX and a PINBALL MACHINE. What a wizard!)psst...it's on YouTube!
So maybe I shouldn't have picked "Some People" to open our program come May 3, but a.) it was recently Patti's 71st birthday, b.) that song has tons of Broadway energy, annnnnd c.) I really didn't feel like playing Julie Andrews and her "Lusty Month Of May." Perhaps SOME PEOPLE feel like it's that lusty month, when "folks go blissfully astray", but not me. This is not some crazy Vulcan Pon Farr time, you know, with Spock and company getting all hormonal! Straighten Up. Fly Right. Stay home. Knit.
Disclaimer #2:
It's tempting at present to "read into" a song's hidden meaning. But just because of this present-day virus-y situation, one needn't place added emphasis on, say "Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You" or "Somethin's Coming" or "License To Kill." Just stop. It's a song from another time: B.C. (Before Corona). Although, yes, it's tempting. (Did Kim really mean that subtext I'm hearing? Hmmmm...)
Just let the Broadway flow over you. Take a break from all the worry and anxiety and damn boredom and monotony and same-o same-o and will things ever get BETTER, and neutrally enjoy the tunes, okay? Think like Patti. The above image would go perfectly on everyone's bathroom mirror, or fridge or sticky-note it to your damn screen, and perhaps let it provide a little ZEN inspiration already! Just look at her: Chill personified. Be like Patti. Damn!
Til Sunday, when we will all think "Something Wonderful" and propose a (birthday) toast! I'll take mine with butter and jam. :)
Some People (Patti LuPone, Gypsy)
Something To Dance About (Tyne Daly, Call Me Madame)
You Do Something To Me (Louis Jourdan, Can Can)
Something Very Strange (Elaine Stritch, Sail Away)
Do Something (David Josefsberg, Rob McClure, Honeymoon In Vegas)
Something From A Dream (Steven Pasquale, Bridges Of Madison County)
Something Different (Katrina Lenk, Tony Shaloub, The Band's Visit)
Something Wonderful (Ruthie Ann Miles, The King And I)
Something Good (Elaine Stritch, Elaine Stritch At Liberty)
Something's Coming (Patti LuPone, Don't Monkey With Broadway)
With One Look (Patti LuPone, Sunset Boulevard)
Meadowlark (Patti LuPone, Don't Monkey With Broadway)
Back On Top (Patti LuPone, Warpaint)
Slow Train/License To Kill (Michael Shaeffer, Ensemble, Girl From The
North Country)
Hurricane/All Along The Watch Tower/Idiot Wind (Arinze Kene,
Sheila Atim, Girl From The North Country)
Like A Rolling Stone/To Make You Feel My Love (Shirley Henderson,
Debbie Kurup, Kirsty Malpass, Girl From The North Country)
Anything You Can Do (Bernadette Peters, Tom Wopat, Annie Get Your Gun)
Doesn't That Mean Anything To You? (Andrea Marcovicci, If I Were A Bell -
The Songs Of Frank Loesser)
Anything Goes (Patti LuPone, Anything Goes)
I'd Do Anything (Georgia Brown, Davy Jones, Ensemble, Oliver!)
I Never Do Anything Twice (Millicent Martin, Side By Side By Sondheim)
Don't Be Anything Less Than Everything You Can Be (David Garrison,
Company, Snoopy)
Love's Good For Anything That Ails You (Ida Sue McCune)
I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Max Von Essen, Call Me Old-Fashioned)
I Don't Need Anything But You (Anthony Warlow, Lila Crawford, Annie)
Anything You Can Do (Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Annie Get Your Gun)
By The Sea (Patti LuPone, Sweeney Todd)
Don't Cry For Me Argentina (Patti LuPone, Evita)
The Ladies Who Lunch (Patti LuPone, Don't Monkey With Broadway)
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