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Stark Sands and Billy Porter in Kinky Boots...

not exactly a Father's Day song,

but I can't be picky, it seems!

Damn few "Dad Songs" on Broadway.

"Not My Father's Son", written by Cyndi Lauper. 

Below Billy Porter as Lola.

 Billy is hardly recognizable (below) without his boas and bling!

Over 2,500 performances and 6 Tony Awards, including Best Musical and one for Billy, too.

From Breakfast At Tiffany's, which producer David Merrick stopped cold,

just days before its opening night

(he took out an ad in the NYTimes, announcing that he shut down the production "rather than subject the drama critics and the public to an excruciatingly boring evening"),

so we never saw or heard the likes of Mary Tyler Moore,

Sally Kellerman, or Richard Chamberlain in these scenes.

Come 2001, they actually did make a "cast" recording of the show,

but only 1 original cast member took part: Sally Kellerman.

See below, wearing a UFO.

The score was by Bob Merrill...and we'll hear Sally with his "Quiet Coffee."

The very first collaboration of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber,

The Likes Of Us,

was written in 1965, but failed to find enough investors to be produced.

It had to wait til the Sydmonton Festival of 2005

to be performed and recorded live.

We'll hear a rousing "Have Another Cup Of Tea", 

the show's finale!

(The guy front and center, with the cup, looks just a bit

like a young Jim Carey, right?)

And for that "falling off the Broadway Bandwagon" corner,

I'll be adding in Tom Waits and a song

from his album, Nighthawks At The Diner. 

How could I not play "Eggs And Sausage" (plus Tom addresses

a lot of other blue plate specials) while I'm spinning breakfast songs? 

The album was supposedly inspired by Edward Hopper's classic painting,

above.