Playlist For Sunday, July 19, 2020: Golden-Throated/Butter-Creamy!

Any excuse for cake, right? Like when you have a birthday party, or someone gets a raise (or manages to hold on to a JOB) or visits from a safe state or it's Christmas and there's no 3rd wave (when other than just YOU are in attendance) or (WTH) when you're alllll alone quarantining or s.d.ing and you want a comforting/sugary thing to calm your nerves. Like when you really need cake. Well, we have LOTS of excuses for CAKE in this Sunday's 2 On The Aisle, so break out the Pillsbury box (or go all "from scratch" high falutin'/snooty and butter creamy) and make a cake. And eat it, too. Cuz sometimes CAKE.

It's the anniversary of Stop The World. And Two On The Aisle (the actual musical, not the radio program). And the birthday of Laura Benanti, Ginger Rogers, and Dorothy Fields. Who could live without any of them? It seems just EVERYTHING happens in July. Or not. But CAKE!

I've never seen Stop The World. Didn't know a thing about it, except for the songs to outlive it. Seems that Little Chap (that's the protagonist, played of course by Anthony Newley) has a super power: Whenever he faces some obstacle or difficult time in the course of his life, he yells "Stop the world!" and it stops. And then he talks out his problem(s) with the audience (like a raked, semi-captivated therapist). Wouldn't that be a sublime super power? Better perhaps than invisibility or flying or never putting on weight? I'll say! The songs? Meh, with the exception of a couple of Newley signature anthems that got so overplayed in the 60s and 70s, even an 11 year old Beatle fan knew them by heart. But an interesting, timely concept. Like can I stop it NOW!?!

Wonder if it's Ginger Cake?

Ms. Rogers's birthday with the cast of The Gay Divorcee:  

Mark Sandrich, Fred Astaire, Ginger, 

Erik Rhodes, Alice Brady and Edward Everett Horton.

So stop the world, if you're able. And have cake. And songs by that golden-throated Laura and lyrics that tease by Dorothy and sexy backward dancing by La Ging! As we muscle thru a truly strange summer and lean back on a chaise of Broadway past.


The Strip (Laura Benanti, Gypsy)
Take Me Back To Manhattan (Tam Mutu, Company, The New Yorkers)
Say It With Gin (Matt Bauman, Sam Bolen, Brian Flores, Cody Williams,
       The New Yorkers)
Love For Sale(The Three Girlfriends, The New Yorkers)
The Hot Patata (Kevin Chamberlain, Clyde Alves, Jeffrey Schecter,
       The New Yorkers)
The Little Things You Do Together (Patti LuPone, Ensemble,Company)
You Could Drive A Person Crazy (George Blagden, Richard Fleeshman,
       Matthew Seadon-Young, Company)
Barcelona (Rosalie Craig, Richard Fleeshman, Company)
Have I Got A Guy For You (Patti LuPone, Daisy Maywood, Jonathan
       Bailey, Ensemble, Company)
Once In A Lifetime (Anthony Newley, Stop The World - I Want To Get Off)
Lumbered (Anthony Newley, Stop The World - I Want To Get Off)
Someone Nice Like You (Anthony Newley, Anna Quayle, Stop The World -
       I Want To Get Off)
What Kind Of Fool Am I (Anthony Newley, Stop The World - I Want To Get Off)
Who Put The Rhythm In The Rhythm Kings (The Manhattan Rhythm Kings)
Let Yourself Go (Ginger Rogers, Follow The Fleet)
Music Makes Me (Ginger Rogers, Flying Down To Rio)
Happy Feet (The Manhattan Rhythm Kings)
Show Train (Ensemble, Two On The Aisle)
Hold Me, Hold Me, Hold Me (Dolores Gray, Two On The Aisle)
The Clown (Bert Lahr, Two On The Aisle)
If You Hadn't, But You Did (Dolores Gray, Two On The Aisle)
Wouldn't It Be Loverly? (Laura Benanti, Songs From My Fair Lady)
Vanilla Ice Cream (Laura Benanti, She Loves Me)
Just You Wait (Laura Benanti, Songs From My Fair Lady)
Model Behavior (Laura Benanti, Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Break
       Down)
The Way You Look Tonight (Fred Astaire, Swing Time!)
I'm In The Mood For Love (Ann Miller, Sugar Babies)
On The Sunny Side Of The Street (Judy Garland)
He Had Refinement (Shirley Booth, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn)
Charity's Soliloquy (Gwen Verdon, Sweet Charity)
Let's Fly Away (Scarlett Strallen, Kevin Chamberlin, Clyde Alves,
       Ensemble, The New Yorkers)
I Happen To Like New York (Scarlett Strallen, Company, The New Yorkers)
Take Me Back To Manhattan (Tam Mutu, Company, The New Yorkers)