Playlist For Sunday, March 27, 2022: Old-ish! (Like Grand-ish, but Grey-er)

Old! Aging! Greying! Oh no, not me! Young, vibrant, and vertical...that's ME. And my address is Land O' Denial. WhoRUkidding Lane. NotMYwalker Cul-de-sac. I bike far and fast away from Old!

However...

Kander & Ebb's 70, Girls, 70...a 35 performance wonder from 1971.

And the cast,

which included Gil Lamb, Mildred Natwick, Hans Conried, Lucie Lancaster, Lillian Hayman, and Lillian Roth.

There are a LOT of fun Broadway tunes about Old. Growing into, pretending you're not, glad you ARE, forgetting you are, even (god forbid) accepting you are! All done with lovely (old) character actors, or at least ones of "a certain age." So I'm choosing OLD as our next 2OTA theme.

And it will not be DEPRESSING! I swear on my box of hair dye and LL Bean mom jeans! We'll keep it light and airy and positive and pithy. :)

 Actually, it's all John from Pittsford's fault. He sent me a tune recorded by Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women, called "I'm Growing Older" and that inspired this Sunday's motif. So thanks to him, we're doing it ("Do We?"), and we'll have 70, Girls, 70, Pippin (with Andrea Martin in Irene Ryan's sandals), Fiddler, Gigi, Juno...old maybe, but still zippy and zesty.

 

Those Uppity Blues Women. Ageless! :)

 So turn up your hearing aids, grab a fresh cuppa, cozy up with that afghan, and "grow old with me". But only for 2 hours. After that, it's back to ZUMBA and tango lessons and skateboarding, okay?

 

Everything Old Is New Again (Hugh Jackman, The Boy From Oz)

Old Folks (Mildred Natwick, Company, 70, Girls, 70)

I'm Growing Older (Safire - The Uppity Blues Women)

I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore (Alfred Drake, Gigi)

Thank God I'm Old (Terri White, Barnum)

That's How Young I Feel (Angela Lansbury, Mame)

Only An Older Woman (Isabel Keating, Hugh Jackman, The Boy From Oz)

That Dirty Old Man (Mary Testa, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum)

Do We? (Gil Lamb, Lucie Lancaster, 70, Girls, 70)

No Time At All (Andrea Martin, Pippin)

Staying Young (Walter Pigeon, Take Me Along)

He's Not A Well Man (Barbra Streisand, Jack Kruschen, I Can Get It For You Wholesale)

When You Are Old And Grey (Tom Lehrer, The Remains Of Tom Lehrer)

Grand Old Ivy (Rudy Vallee, Robert Morse, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying) 

Sam, The Old Accordion Man (Doris Day, Love Me Or Leave Me)

Carry Me Back To Old Manhattan (Mabel Mercer)

Dear Old Syracuse (Jack Cassidy, The Boys From Syracuse) 

I'm An Old Cowhand (Harry Connick, Jr., 25)

70, Girls, 70 (Company, 70, Girls, 70)

I'm Old Fashioned (Fred Astaire, You Were Never Lovelier)

An Old-Fashioned Wedding (Ethel Merman, Ray Middleton, Annie Get Your Gun)

Old Sayin's (Melvyn Douglas, Shirley Booth, Juno)

Do You Love Me? (Zero Mostel, Maria Karnilova, Fiddler On The Roof)

Old Friends (Ann Morrison, Jim Walton, Lonny Price, Merrily We Roll Along)

Old Acquaintance (Jo Stafford)

Somebody Older (Debra Monk, Jim Newman, Steel Pier)

Old Friends/Bookends (Sutton Foster, Megan McGinnis, Take Me To The World)

I Can Live With That (Melissa Weill, Danny Burstein, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change)

Goodbye, Old Girl (Robert Shafer, Stephen Douglass, Damn Yankees)

Old Flame (Betty Buckley, Story Songs)

Last Night When We Were Young (Judy Garland, The Good Old Summertime)

September Song (Lotte Lenya, Knickerbocker Holiday) 

Grow Old With Me (Jason Robert Brown, Wearing Someone Else's Clothes)