Playlist For Sunday, September 19, 2021: Biking Binary on Broadway

Visualize: 

A beautiful, crisp, corn-flower-blue-skied  Saturday morning. About 200 bikers (the silent pedaling kinds, tho I did notice a couple of batteries!). Lycra. Blinky lights. Bagels. Gatorade. A bit of a mist lingering on Keuka Lake hills. A slow start, and off.

Well, THIS wasn't the ride I did. But one can dream.

 Yeah, I've been trying a few group rides. Me, the slow and solo rider, who stops to take pics of barns and to munch on dates (and date pits...yup, broke a tooth on one of those last month), in a group ride? Suffice it to type, I get passed A LOT. If I hear "on your left" one more time (and I heard it dozens of times last Saturday), I'll go mad. So I'm not a swifty. But if one can manage the somewhat demoralizing emotions that go with being left behind, rides like this DO make you go faster and dig deeper than you would on your own. And then there's the free lunch at the end, and your group waiting for you (well, I didn't NOTICE any impatient foot tapping), and the good feelings when you swing into the finish, still strong and breathing and smiling at the cheering volunteers. Huzzah!

Fire pit AND fountain. This is not my patio. Mine is humble.

 

Hopefully, there'll be a few more long rides filling up the fall, but the biggies are now over. I can sit on my patio and luxuriate in one more season biked and in the record books.

Hell, no! Let's plan for next year! :)

Meanwhile, another week, another 2OTA theme, right? This is kind of a BINARY Broadway edition...Boys and Girls, Men and Women, a gaggle of Gentleman, and one damn Guy. Classic musical yens (The Boy Next Door), vendettas (I Hate Men), lovey-dovey ballads (The Girl That I Marry), declarations (Les Girls), and denials (Forget About The Boy!)...it's a Broadway Way Back Machine.

Patricia Morison. Seething.

 

So let's have fun with it, take it in context, which means put on your old-timey specs for non-now musicals. Sit on your "patio", dream of a warm, colorful fall, and listen in on Sunday. :)

Boys And Girls Like You And Me (Judy Garland, Meet Me In St. Louis)

Les Girls (Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, Taina Elg, Les Girls)

Beautiful Girl (Jimmy Thompson, Singin' In The Rain)

Hundreds Of Girls (Robert Preston, Mack And Mabel)

I Hate Men (Patricia Morison, Kiss Me Kate)

Men (Loni Ackerman, So Long, 174th Street)

Why? 'Cause I'm A Guy (Jordan Leeds, Robert Roznowski, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change)

Pretty Women (Len Cariou, Edmund Lyndeck, Sweeney Todd)

You Are Women (Sydney Chaplin, Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl)

In Praise Of Women (Laurence Guittard, A Little Night Music)

Real Live Girl (Sid Caesar, Little Me)

My Best Girl (Frankie Michaels, Mame)

The Girl That I Marry (Ray Middleton, Annie Get Your Gun)

The Boy Next Door (Judy Garland, Meet Me In St. Louis)

One Boy (Susan Watson, Bye, Bye Birdie)

Golden Boy (Paula Wayne, Golden Boy)

Forget About The Boy (Sutton Foster, Thoroughly Modern Millie)

One Of The Boys (Lauren Bacall, Woman Of The Year)

Mama, I'm A Big Girl Now (Marissa Jaret Winokur, Harvey Fierstein, Hairspray)

Big Girls Don't Cry (The Four Seasons)

She's My Girl (Tom Lehrer, The Remains Of Tom Lehrer)

Everybody's Girl (Debra Monk, Steel Pier)

A Girl Worth Fighting For (Harvey Fierstein, Jerry Tondo, Gedde Watanabe, Ming Na Wen, Mulan)

A Quiet Girl (George Gaynes, Wonderful Town)

Have I Got A Girl For You (Dean Jones, Charles Braswell, Charles Kimbrough, George Coe, Company) 

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Carol Channing, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) 

Gentleman Jimmy (Eileen Rodgers, Fiorello!)

Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love (Scarlett Strallen, The New Yorkers) 

We Are Gentlemen Of Japan (Ensemble, Hot Mikado)

Walk Like A Man (John Lloyd Young, Ensemble, Jersey Boys)

Little Girls (Dorothy Loudon, Annie)

All I Need Is The Girl (Paul Wallace, Gypsy)

Me And My Girl (Robert Lindsay, Emma Thompson, Me And My Girl)