Playlist For May 17, 2020: To Whoop Or Not To Whoop...let me count the ways!

By the time this show airs, we (here in Upstate New York) may be cautiously out of quarantine. Note that I did NOT put an exclamation point at the end of that sentence. As much as we all probably want to dash out and whoop it up, we'll have to tread carefully into that Whoopy. In fact, ain't gonna be none of the old Whoopy, as we of the B.C. generation (Before Corona) once knew it. It will be an interestingly new non-whoop-esque world we tip toe back into! (There, an exclamation point. Feel better?) Now I'll stop using Whoop. :)

I may function better with THIS kind of Whoopy.

 So we've been counting the days...how many? No clue. I mean, I WAS counting, and caring, but now? Can I actually count anymore? Can my brain unfreeze and focus, maybe read an article without skimming? Hey, this NYTimes thing is 7 paragraphs long??? What the hell? Better, I should take baby steps, right? Not expect tooooo much of myself. Could I muster the energy to whip up a Nutella Frappaccino? (Probably not. I'd just pair it down to coffee, maybe some turning-as-we-speak milk, and pour it into a half eaten jar of that nutty stuff. Maybe shake AND stir.)

The way mine won't look.

So I thought maybe we'd try some counting...up instead of down...Broadway Style. You know, just to get ourselves focusing on numeration? Like one number after another? Maybe the patron saint of this "By The Numbers Edition" could be The Count. Remember him? Nicely costumed, toothsome, and be-caped Muppet Fellow. He'd keep us in line!

We'll start with 1. Then 2. I believe 3 and 4 used to follow, right? Anyway, if I skip a number, don't get your knickers in a twist. Just know that Broadway didn't see fit to sing about 19. Or 23. In fact, a lot of prime numbers just get skipped. That's not my fault.

Enjoy. And get your mind a'calculatin'! Cuz soon enough, you'll be out (OUT!) at a restaurant and have to reckon out the tip. And read a whole article. And (hopefully) go back to work. And ADULT. We can do this.

If we start with 1.


One/Better (Lonny Price, Company, A Class Act)
One Of A Kind (Len Cariou, Lauren Bacall, Applause)
Johnny One Note (Judy Garland, Words And Music)
One Boy (Susan Watson, Chita Rivera, Bye Bye Birdie)
Just One Step (Jessica Molaskey, Songs For A New World)
Two Lost Souls (Gwen Verdon, Stephen Douglass, Damn Yankees)
Two Heads (Andrew Durand, Evan Harrington, The Robber Bridegroom)
Cocktails For Two (Spike Jones And His City Slickers)
Tea For Two (Susan Watson, Roger Rathburn, No, No, Nanette)
The Three B's (Liza Minnelli, Kay Cole, Renee Winters, Best Foot Forward)
Three Friends (Ensemble, Closer Than Ever)
Four Jews In A Room Bitching (Christian Borle, Andrew Rannells, Brandon
       Uranowitz, Falsettos)
Four Black Dragons (Jae Woo Lee, Mako, Ensemble, Pacific Overtures)
The Five Pennies (Danny Kaye, The Five Pennies)
The Seven Deadly Virtues (Roddy McDowall, Camelot)
Tonight At 8 (Zachary Levi, She Loves Me)
Nine O'Clock (Robert Morse, Take Me Along)
Ten Cents A Dance (Ruth Etting, Simple Simon)
Nine To Five (Allison Janney, Stephanie J. Block, Megan Hilty, Nine To Five)
Dance: Ten; Looks: Three (Pamela Blair, A Chorus Line)
Eleven O'Clock Song (Jane and Betty Kean, Ankles Aweigh)
Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love (Cameron Mason, Baayork Lee,
       A Chorus Line)
Sixteen Going On Seventeen (Lauri Peters, Brian Davies, The Sound
       Of Music)
Sixteen Tons (David Engel, Forever Plaid)
Thirty Miles From The Banks Of The Ohio/Look Who's Here (Santino Fontana,
       Rebecca Naomi Jones, Ensemble, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater)
Fifty Checks (Tom Wopat, Catch Me If You Can)
Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway (Joel Grey, Loni Ackerman, George M!)
Wait Till We're Sixty-Five (William Daniels, Barbara Harris, On A Clear Day
       You Can See Forever))
Seventy-Six Trombones (Robert Preston, The Music Man)
Another Hundred People (Patti LuPone, Don't Monkey With Broadway)
A Million Windows And I (Ann Hampton Calloway, Shoe String Revue)
Twenty Million People (Evan Pappas, Company, My Favorite Year)