How are you celebrating this year's Thanksgiving? With or without Aunt Helen and Uncle Lester? With a brined and basted 30 pound turkey or cold Chinese take-out and a boxed Franzia? Pumpkin pie a la mode or a King Cone in the car? But one thing is for sure: We probably all have FOOD on the itinerary. Glorious or "glorious" (minus the capital letter). And odds are, too much of it. Because this is the Over-Doing-It Season, the 6 week slog from one holiday to another (to another), and then on January 2nd, we say UNCLE LESTER and dive into a diet, for at least 16 hours. :)
But THIS coming Sunday, we'll have a FAT FREE musical buffet, all low-cal, no matter the number of cakes and pies and T-bone steaks and Turkey Lurkey consumed. And with all the dancing in the kitchen you'll do to this edition (while reheating the REAL leftovers, no doubt), it'll end up equaling a calorie deficit for sure. So it's win win. Eat eat. Metaphorically speaking.
Bowls of Apples and Cherries and Kumquats (Peggy Lee's tried and true recipe)
Bread (of the fresh French variety)
Veggies (well, at least a plethora of Spinach...and mispronounced Tomatoes. Thankfully not 1 EFFING Green Bean!)
Seafood (from a "really nice clambake")
Coffee and Tea to wash it all down (with cream and/or cardboard).
And plenty of guilt-free desserts (just ask Jenna for her daily special or the Dinettes for a full menu!)
I'm salivating just singing along.
So after your real feast(s), tune into Sunday's musical "mess", and we'll continue the holiday celebrating. Because why the hell not (thumb our nose)(make hay while the sun shines)(live before we die) have some fun? :)
Food, Glorious Food (Ensemble, Oliver!)
Bread (Alun Armstrong, Ensemble, The Baker's Wife)
Menu Song (Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, Pump Boys And Dinettes)
Be Our Guest (Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury, Beauty And The Best)
It Couldn't Please Me More (Lotte Lenya, Jack Gilford, Cabaret)
Life If Just A Bowl Of Cherries (Ann Morrison, Kim Huber, Good News)
Apples (Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin, Annie)
Apples, Peaches, And Cherries (Peggy Lee)
Let's Call The Whole Thing Off (Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Shall We Dance)
I Say It's Spinach (And To Hell With It) (Jeffry Denman, Meredith Patterson, Face The Music)
You've Gotta Eat Your Spinach, Baby (Shirley Temple, Alice Faye, Jack Haley, Poor Little Rich Girl)
A Cup Of Coffee, A Sandwich, And You (Jack Buchanan, Gertrude Lawrence, Charlot's Revue)
Thank Heaven For Little Girls (Maurice Chevalier, Gigi)
Thank You So Much (Elizabeth Allen, Sergio Franchi, Do I Hear A Waltz?)
Thanks For The Memories (Bob Hope, Shirley Ross, The Big Broadcast Of 1938)
Thank You Very Much (Anton Rodgers, Albert Finney, Scrooge)
Some Girls Can Bake A Pie (Ensemble, Of Thee I Sing)
Let's Have Another Cup Of Coffee (Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians)
You're The Cream In My Coffee (Ruth Etting)
Coffee In A Cardboard Cup (Lillian Hayman, Goldye Shaw, 70, Girls, 70)
That's The Way It Is (Isabel Bigley, Bill Hayes, Me And Juliet)
Happy To Keep His Dinner Warm (Bonnie Scott, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying)
Les Poissons (Rene Auberjonois, The Little Mermaid)
This Was A Real Nice Clambake (Jessie Mueller, Renee Fleming, Company, Carousel)
Opening Up/What Baking Can Do (Jessie Mueller, Waitress)
The Cake I Had (Mary Louise Wilson, Grey Gardens)
Ice Cream (Laura Benanti, She Loves Me)
Candy (Johnny Mercer, Jo Stafford, The Pied Pipers)
Tea For Two (Susan Watson, Roger Rathburn, No, No, Nanette)
When I Take My Sugar To Tea (The Boswell Sisters)
Have Another Cuppa Tea (Company, The Likes Of Us)
Turkey Lurkey Time (Donna McKechnie, Baayork Lee, Ensemble, Promises, Promises)
Overweight People (Allan Sherman, Live At The Hollywood Bowl)
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