Once again, Broadway asks the hard questions!
Last week, we did the Where Or When Edition of 2 On The Aisle, filling 2 hours to the brim with "Where Is Love?" and "When Will The Nylons Bloom Again?"...and then, like every good Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen (Daily Planet cub reporters, right?), my curious mind wanted to ask What and Who and Why (and even Why Not?). I mean, that's what we were taught in school, right? Answer those 5 questions in that frickin' essay, and finish those green beans, or no sand box for you! (Sorry, my mind wanders to Kindergarten Trauma.)
Was this the first Smart Phone?
And when did this happen? Lois and Jimmy? Jeesh, too many deadlines,
late night stories...and cozy over donuts?!
But Broadway has it all, in spades. Lots of questions in these musicals, and sometimes actual answers. Why Do The Wrong People Travel? Who's Sorry Now? So What If I Did? Stuff like that. From trivial to profound, enough to keep Lois and Jimmy typing away, on deadline, with take-out coffee, full ashtrays, and stale donuts.
Another reporter match up, but this time with better clothes.
Next week, I promise to catch up with all those June Broadway Birthdays, and maybe a tribute to Summer. And I think it's Father's Day as well, so we'll have our Broadway cut out for us! Meanwhile, ponder those Whys and Wherefores. I'll expect 2 pages, single spaced on Sunday. Tough questions. Tough answers!
Why Can't The English? (Harry Hadden-Paton, My Fair Lady)
Why Can't You Behave? (Amy Spanger, Michael Beresse, Kiss Me Kate)
Why Am I Me? (Chip Young, Joseph Shapiro, Shenandoah)
Why Do I Love You? (Barbara Cook, John Raitt, Show Boat)
Why Are All The D'ysquiths Dying? (Ensemble, A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder)
Why Do The Wrong People Travel? (Elaine Stritch, Sail Away)
Why Go Anywhere At All? (Barbara Cook, The Gay Life)
The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues (Gene Nelson, Follies)
Why We Like Spelling (Ensemble, The Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee)
Why I Am The Way That I Am (Laura Benanti, In Constant Search Of The Right Kind Of Attention)
Why Does The Whole Damn World Adore Me? (Nathan Lane, Sherry!)
Who Cares? (Bea Arthur, Just Between Friends)
Who's Sorry Now? (Ann Reinking, Erzsebet Foldi, Leland Palmer, All That Jazz)
Look Who's Alone Now (Barry Bostwick, Nick & Nora)
Who Are You Now? (Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl)
After You, Who? (Fred Astaire, Gay Divorce)
Who? (Judy Garland, Till The Clouds Roll By)
Who's Sorry Now? (Willie Smith, Harry James and His Orchestra)
(Who, Who, Who, Who) Who Is She? (Barbara Harris, Ensemble, The Apple Tree)
Who Loves You? (John Lloyd Young, Ensemble, Jersey Boys)
Who Will Buy? (Bruce Prochnick, Ensemble, Oliver!)
Who Can I Turn To? (Anthony Newley, The Roar Of The Greasepaint, The Smell Of The Crowd)
Who Would've Thought? (Bernadette Peters, Martin Short, The Goodbye Girl)
Who Put The Rhythm In The Rhythm Kings? (The Manhattan Rhythm Kings)
What A Country! (Ray Bolger, All American)
Doin' What Comes Naturally (Bernadette Peters, Annie Get Your Gun)
I Wonder What The King Is Doing Tonight (Richard Burton, Camelot)
What Is This Thing Called Love? (Mary Martin)
What Baking Can Do (Jessie Mueller, Waitress)
It Is What It Is (Katrina Lenk, Tony Shaloub, The Band's Visit)
What's Gonna Happen (Sarah Stiles, Santino Fontana, Tootsie)
What Kind Of Man (Debra Monk, Edward Hibbert, Ensemble, Curtains)
So What If I Did? (Jeff Blumenkrantz, Brett Ryback, Murder For Two)
What Has She Got? (Faith Prince, Redhead)
Whatever Happened To My Part? (Sara Ramirez, Spamalot)
I Am What I Am (George Hearn, La Cage Aux Folles)
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