Broadway Body Parts? Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes? What fresh hell is this?
I seem to be scraping the bottom of the theme barrel this week with a Body Beautiful motif. Yup. Faces. Feet. Arms. Cheeks (both sets). Chins (all of them). And epiglotisesesss.There just seems to be a lot of Broadway songs about body parts! Who the heck knew? And I am way too impatient to wait for Halloween (none are gory enough for that "celebration" anyway).
It had something to do with boxing, I guess.
In fact, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick wrote a musical actually called The Body Beautiful, the CD of which I am anxiously awaiting in snail mail, although I don't have high hopes of it striking my fancy. Or making the 2 On The Aisle "grade" (standards!!!). It was B&H's first collaboration, and it starred Jack Carson, Barbara McNair, William Hickey, and Mindy Carson? Well, I know a couple of those folks. Anyway, it got panned, closed quickly ...and YET it brought Jerry and Sheldon the attention they needed to be hired to write songs for Fiorello! So The Body turned out to be a "stepping stone" to all things bright and ...a bit more beautiful.
Dame Julie in Star! "The Physician"...all internal organs covered in 1 song!
So it would be nice if the title song of that show turned out to be wonderful and up to SNUFF (where'd that phrase come from? Snuff goes UP?), and we could sneak it into this Sunday's show. But if not, c'est la vie. At least we have Julie Andrews' "Star!"-turn with The Physician, Jack Cassidy's "Fortune"-ate Face, Barbara and Brian, Fred and Fanny, and a little Dance 10 Looks 3 titillation to "cover" those other parts.:)
Pamela Blair showing off an improved pair. Thanks Getty Images! :)
Meanwhile, keep that body beautiful. Self care and all that. Lotion those elbows, soak those pedal-extremities, and wax a patella (or 2)... and tune in on Sunday.
Let's Face The Music And Dance (Fred Astaire, Follow The Fleet)
Sun On My Face (Robert Morse, Tony Roberts, Elaine Joyce, Sugar)
Lose That Long Face (Judy Garland, A Star Is Born)
Put On A Happy Face (Dick Van Dyke, Bye Bye Birdie)
Look At That Face (Cyril Ritchard, The Roar Of The Greasepaint, The Smell Of The Crowd)
How Can You Describe A Face (Sydney Chaplin, Subways Are For Sleeping)
That Face (Mathew Broderick, The Producers)
That Face (Vivien Leigh, Tovarich)
I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face (Harry Hadden-Paton, My Fair Lady)
Funny Face (Fred Astaire, Funny Face)
My Fortune Is My Face (Jack Cassidy, Fade Out - Fade In)
Were Thine That Special Face (Brian Stokes Mitchell, Kiss Me Kate)
Secondhand Rose (Fanny Brice, Ziegfeld Follies Of 1921)
Clap Yo' Hands (Patrick Cassidy, Oh, Kay!)
Right Hand Man (Heidi Blickenstaff, Something Rotten!)
The Country's In The Very Best Of Hands (Stubby Kaye, Peter Palmer, Company, Li'l Abner)
I Put My Hand In (Pearl Bailey, Hello Dolly!)
Born To Hand-Jive (Allan Paul, Ensemble, Grease)
Your Feet's Too Big (Ken Page, Ain't Misbehavin')
Ooh! My Feet! (Susan Johnson, The Most Happy Fellow)
Lonely Feet (Blossom Dearie, Alfred Drake, The Three Sisters)
Cold Feets (Troy Britton Johnson, Eddie Korbich, The Drowsy Chaperone)
Fidgety Feet (Patrick Cassidy, Liz Larsen, Oh, Kay!)
Magic Foot (Dan Fogler, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Take It On The Chin (Emma Thompson, Me And My Girl)
Cheek To Cheek (Fred Astaire, Top Hat)
I Got Lost In His Arms (Bernadette Peters, Annie Get Your Gun)
In Buddy's Eyes (Barbara Cook, Follies)
On Your Toes (Joshua Shelley, Bobby Van, Kay Coulter, On Your Toes)
The Physician (Julie Andrews, Star!)
Dance: Ten; Looks: Three (Pamela Blair, A Chorus Line)
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