Another Tuesday morning at 5:32, another 2 On The Aisle blog to write...ahh, such is the "life" of an upstater turned NYC wannabe turned social security-drawing "frog", transplanted back in her original garden. I guess I need to write a book about that "transplant" (that may or may not be "taking"), how I've never felt quite comfortable in either garden (city OR country), like Lucy and Jessie (of Follies fame). I'm always in between, so maybe GPS-me around Schenectady??? UGH.
As you can see, I'm grasping for ideas here. A mid-September crispy, crunchy dawn spent INSIDE (I ain't biking when it's 44 degrees, with Oregon smoke in the air), a steamy cuppa at my side, and an impatient cat niggling at my heels (I just FED YOU!). Makes ya wanna put on a sweater and surrender. But that's why the musical theatre gods gave us Cole Albert Porter. With his de-luxe and de-lovely Parisian parties, Venetian villas (did he have blinds?), plenty of hoity-toity friends (who wouldn't want a Monty Wooley attending your dos, sipping your better-be-the-best champagne, and guffawing into your cowboy caviar?). Cole with his wonderful witty words, and melodies to match. :)
So I'm up and at 'em for Cole...and a plethora of Porter awaits us come Sunday! Cherry picking from the best (and a few fun "worsts"), like Fifty Million Frenchmen, Can-Can, High Society, Dubarry, Something For The Boys. Iconic ones, as well, like that nary a Kiss, Kate and Anything (still) Goes, but I'll throw in some eccentric, rather un-PC goodies, too. Cuz that's part of Cole's garden.
Hopefully, it all speaks (and sings and swirls) to you. Scoop up some more of that caviar, pour yourself a Dubonnet (not into a jelly glass) and join me for Cole-dom!
Overture (Instrumental, Anything Goes)
Another Op'nin', Another Show (Annabelle Hill, Company, Kiss Me Kate)
Wunderbar (Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Kiss Me Kate)
We Open In Venice(Brian Stokes Mitchell, Marin Mazzie, Michael
Berresse, Amy Spanger, Kiss Me Kate)
Brush Up Your Shakespeare (Harry Clark, Charles Wood, Kiss Me Kate)
Let's Misbehave (Eileen Rodgers, Kenneth Mars, Anything Goes)
The Queen Of Terre Haute (Peggy Cass, Fifty Million Frenchmen)
But In The Morning, No (Julie Wilson, William Roy, Julie Wilson Sings The
Cole Porter Songbook)
Let's Step Out (Ensemble, Fifty Million Frenchmen)
C'est Magnifique (Lilo, Can-Can)
I Am In Love (Peter Goodson, Can-Can)
Can-Can (Lilo, Company, Can-Can)
Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)(Rudy Vallee)
Where Have You Been? (Judy Holiday, Trouble Is A Man)
Let's Fly Away (Lee Wiley)
After You Who? (Fred Astaire, Gay Divorce)
Paris Loves Lovers (Don Ameche, Hildegard Knef, Silk Stockings)
Siberia (Jules Munshin, Joseph Buloff, Peter Lorre, Silk Stockings)
Satin And Silk (Janis Paige, Silk Stockings)
The Red Blues (David Opatoshu, Henry Lascoe, Leon Belasco, Silk Stockings)
Take Me Back To Manhattan (Eileen Rodgers, Anything Goes)
I'm Getting Myself Ready For You (Todd Buonopane, Mylinda Hull,
The New Yorkers)
Blow, Gabriel, Blow (Patti LuPone, Don't Monkey With Broadway)
Come To The Supermarket (Barbra Streisand, Aladdin)
By The Mississinewa (Betty Garrett, Paula Laurence, Something For
The Boys)
Abracadabra (June Havoc, Mexican Hayride)
Give Him The Ooh La La (Sutton Foster, Take Me To The World)
My Heart Belongs To Daddy (Mary Martin, Leave It To Me!)
You're Sensational (Frank Sinatra, High Society)
You're The Top (Cole Porter)
I Get A Kick Out Of You (Ethel Merman, Anything Goes)
The Heaven Hop (Margery Gray, Anything Goes)
Anything Goes (Sutton Foster, Company, Anything Goes)
It's DeLovely (Hal Linden, Barbara Lang, Anything Goes)
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