Playlist For Sunday, May 16, 2021: Brain-Dumping...and dropping!

There really IS no business like show business.

Flappers revisited are flappers no longer?

Lights! Music! Song!  (Broadway reopens, baby!)

 

The above is part of an often long and sometimes anxiety-inducing "brain dump" of blog musings (and stressy To-Do chores) I've had as I carve and truss up the playlist for this Sunday's edition. Whenever skies look grey to me and I'm starting to stress/add grey hairs/sprout a new wrinkle (in time), I do a brain dump, a list of everything, and I mean everything, I think about and/or have to do. From the profound to the inane. Consider The Meaning of Life right next to It's Recycle Week!  Change the Cat Litter is cheek-by-jowl with ...well, most of my thoughts run to the inane, I'll admit.

 

 

But BROADWAY! It reopens in September! Fingers crossed, all things MUSICAL will "get ready to rumble," and Doubtfire and Six and Ain't Too Proud (all things new, old, borrowed, blue) will premier or revitalize after Labor-Dazing! Huzzah!

And that's "a profound!"

 

 

On the inane but amusing side, I'll have 2 new shows in the list (I've got a little list!)...well, new to me and possibly to you: Divorce Me, Darling and A Man Of No Importance. The first is a sequel to Sandy Wilson's The Boy Friend, which was Julie Andrew's Broadway debut back in 1954. Well, come 1965, Sandy revisited those same characters, to ogle at their "lots" 10 years later, no longer the giddy 20-somethings of the Flapper Age, but now mired in the Depression, and (occasionally) questioning their lives, as much as flappers can (but I'm being judgey). However, it's still a Sandy Wilson musical, so can the Charleston really be off-stage for long? Huzzah!

 

 A Man Of No Importance (cue Oscar) is one of those Lynn Ahren/Stephen Flaherty shows, which had a short but effective run at Lincoln Center, back in 2002, and I'm loving it. All those tasty Irish flavorings (it's set in Dublin) and Roger Rees to boot! ANNND since I threatened to play more Ahren/Flaherty shows a few weeks back, I will make good on that threat and add a soupcon of Ragtime, Anastasia, and Lucky Stiff.

 

Roger Rees who starred in the LC production.

 Plus more. Always more. 

So take a gander. And maybe do your own Brain Dump. Just don't throw your pre-frontal out with the bath water. That can happen. :)
 

 

There's No Business Like Show Business (Ensemble, Annie Get Your Gun)

Another Op'nin, Another Show (Ensemble, Kiss Me Kate)

Wunderbar (Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Kiss Me Kate)

We Open In Venice (Alfred Drake, Patricia Morison, Harold Lang, Lisa Kirk, Kiss Me Kate)

Bianca (Harold Lang, Kiss Me Kate)

Someone To Dance With (Tim Flavin, Divorce Me, Darling)

Whatever Happened To Love? (Ruthie Henshall, Nicola Keen, Ann Sidney, Samantha George, Divorce Me, Darling)

Lights! Music! (Liliane Montevecchi, Linzi Hateley, Divorce Me, Darling)

Our Father (Jessica Molaskey, Company, A Man Of No Importance)

Love Who You Love (Roger Rees, A Man Of No Importance)

The Cuddles That Mary Gave (Ronn Carrol, A Man Of No Importance)

Art (Roger Rees, Ensemble, A Man Of No Importance)

Rita's Confession (Mary Testa, Jason Graae, Lucky Stiff)

Monte Carlo! (Patrick Quinn, Lucky Stiff)

Speaking French (Deborah Gravitte, Evan Pappas, Company, Lucky Stiff)

Nice (Judy Blazer, Evan Pappas, Lucky Stiff)

Journey To The Past (Christy Altomare, Anastasia)

Land Of Yesterday (Caroline O'Connor, Anastasia)

Paris Holds The Key (To Your Heart)(John Bolton, Derek Klena, Christy Altomare, Anastasia)

Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc. (Peter Friedman, Ragtime)

Sarah Brown Eyes (Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald, Ragtime)

Make Them Hear You (Brian Stokes Mitchell, Ragtime)

Show People (Debra Monk, Company, Curtains)

There's No Business Like Show Business (Ethel Merman, There's No Business Like Show Business)

The Girl In The Show (Carol Channing, Show Girl)

Show Train (Ensemble, Two On The Aisle)

The Picture Show (Kirk McDonald, Christy Carlson Romano, Parade)

The Late, Late Show (Nathan Lane, Do Re Mi)

I Love A Film Cliche (A Day In Hollywood/A Night In The Ukraine)

There's No Business Like Show Business (Tom Wopat, Bernadette Peters, Annie Get Your Gun)

Show Tune (Charles Nelson Reilly, Dody Goodman, Ensemble, Parade)

Wanna Sing A Show Tune (Michael Feinstein)

There's No Business Like Show Business (Elaine Stritch, Elaine Stritch At Liberty)