Playlist For Sunday, July 31, 2022: Whew! Tough Times!

Well, I survived 5 grueling days at the beach. It was tough. All that lounging and swimming and sand between one's toes? Man, it was touch and go for awhile. But I "weathered" it all, and came out brown like "a nut" (I guess almond would be the nut referred to), a few pounds heavier (margaritas, lobster rolls, Springer's Ice Cream stops, which are all necessities at the shore, of course), and back to my rural existence. 

 

 

 

 

Can't wait to go back. :)))

Those beach days were bookended with short Philly stays where it was "110 In The Shade". I forgot how H O T cities and their concrete and exhaust (and exhaustion) can get. So Uber here, Uber there, and eating inside, not al fresco. Only downside was the traffic jam and jelly on the way home. Which gave me time to think of a playlist theme or 7, between stops and starts for 45 minutes!

 

So that's my excuse for this playlist: Growing, Growing UP, Pirates (???), and little children and their (sometimes annoying) little children voices. That means Peter Pan, SpongeBob SquarePants, Matilda, Oliver!, The Sound of Music...that sorta thing. Bouncing all around to bring you a ping pong of themes and quite the collision of musical theatre. Hey, if I can take 5 days on the Jersey Shore, you can take 2 hours of Broadway nuttiness (another almond reference, I guess). 

Next week, another wacky theme that I've already cooked up (the heat is gettin' to me and I actually am cooking), but meanwhile enjoy your last days of July. Dog Days are a comin'! 

 

Don't Monkey With Broadway (Patti LuPone, Don't Monkey With Broadway)

I Won't Grow Up (Mary Martin, Peter Pan)

When I Grow Up (Adrianna Bertola, Lauren Ward, Ensemble, Matilda)

Growing Pains (Jessica Molaskey, Make Believe)

I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face (Rex Harrison, My Fair Lady)

Grow For Me (Hunter Foster, Little Shop Of Horrors)

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

Mack The Black (Judy Garland, The Pirate)

Captain Hook's Waltz (Cyril Ritchard, Joe E. Marks, Peter Pan)

A Professional Pirate (Tim Curry, Muppet Treasure Island)

Poor Pirates (John Rua, SpongeBob SquarePants)

The Air Conditioner Song (Sutton Foster, Sutton Foster Live At The Cafe Carlyle)

Baltimore (Audra McDonald, Go Back Home)

Model Behavior (Laura Benanti, Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown)

Kids (Paul Lynde, Bye Bye Birdie)

Consider Yourself (Davy Jones, Bruce Prochnik, Oliver!)

It's A Hard Knock Life (Ensemble, Annie)

Carrying The Banner (Jeremy Jordan, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Ensemble, Newsies)

Let Me Entertain You (Karen Moore, Jacqueline Mayro, Gypsy)

Gary, Indiana (Eddie Hodges, The Music Man)

Times Are Hard For Dreamers (Savvy Crawford, Amelie)

Why Am I Me? (Joseph Shapiro, Chip Ford, Shenandoah)

I Am Aldolpho (Danny Burstein, Beth Leavel, The Drowsy Chaperone)

Get Me To The Church On Time (Danny Burstein, My Fair Lady)

52 (Danny Burstein)

Bruce (Bertie Carvel, Jake Bailey, Matilda)

Quiet (Adrianna Bertola, Matilda)

Revolting Children (Company, Matilda)

Ti Voglio Bene - Be Italian (Kathi Moss, Nine)

So Long, Farewell (Ensemble, The Sound Of Music)