August, already? Surely, you jest! Half the summer gone and 47 things left on my "Must Do Every Summer" List! Like spend time on my patio (I've sat out there only 3 times in the last 12 months?). Eat sweet corn, enuf so the butter drips down to my elbows. Perspire more. Stress less. Hammock swing, doggy paddle, apply Noxema, guzzle 7 more Frappacinos, make berry cobbler, eat berry cobbler, and plan my birthday (only 2 months away, and I get to turn 39 again)...jeez, who has time for Broadway???
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Broadway. Death. Hardly Gruesome.
But definitely GOTTA make time for THIS Broadway, because we're doing a theme that most folks don't even want to think about. Death. That's right, it's the Broadway Does Death Edition. Strange to attack this theme in the middle of summer, right? But hey, ya never know when that tall, dark, and scythe-y guy will come calling, and we have to be ready. So....first half of this Sunday's show will be all Broadway Death songs, and the 2nd half will be a taste of my funeral playlist. Does that sound macabre? Nah....Broadway does death with kicklines. With pithy lyrics. Death even takes holidays, sings romantic ballads, and does a mean buck and wing. So please don't think this will be a depressing 2 hours! Au Contraire!
...and of course Elaine!
Plus I really think everyone should prep a personal playlist for their funeral (mine probably adds up to about 3 hours worth, with Broadway, Frenchy pop, 50s hop, some soppy, some jivey, all making an appearance). I mean, what do you want? Your friends and relations programming "appropriate" Amazing Graces when you never LIKED THAT STUFF!? Be prepared as the Boy Scouts said. Scar said it, too.
This can only happen on Jazz 90.1, where they let me be a wacky as I want. Or perhaps this is just me in a "Summer Daze" (Number 7 on the to do list) that I always find myself in mid-August. It's gettin' to me. Anyway, mark your calendar for DEATH on Sunday. It'll be a hell of a show! :)
Live Before We Die (Nathan Lane, Bebe Neuwirth, The Addams Family)
The Woman's Dead (Debra Monk, Edward Hibbert, Company, Curtains)
Funeral Sequence (Ron Holgate, Zero Mostel, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum)
That's Your Funeral (David Delve, Julia Deakin, Oliver!)
Why Are All The D'Ysquiths Dying? (Ensemble, A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder)
Monks Chant/He Is Not Yet Dead (Christian Borle, Hank Azaria, David Hyde Pierce, Spamalot)
Pore Jud Is Daid (Gordon MacRae, Rod Steiger, Oklahoma!)
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead (Sammy Davis, Jr., Rufus Jones For President)
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead (Chorines, Bullets Over Broadway)
Alive! (Kevin Early, Don Stephenson, Patricia Noonan, Death Takes A Holiday)
Death Is In The House (Don Stephenson, Michael Siberry, Death Takes A Holiday)
Finale (Kevin Early, Jill Paice, Death Takes A Holiday)
I Would Die (Robert Morse, Susan Luckey, Take Me Along)
Every Day A Little Death (Victoria Mallory, Patricia Elliott, A Little Night Music)
Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Hamilton)
Heaven Hop (Margery Gray, Ensemble, Anything Goes)
My Blue Heaven (Frank Sinatra)
Take Me To Heaven (Patina Miller, Sister Act)
Broadway Baby (Elaine Stritch, Follies)
Cabaret (Liza Minnelli, Cabaret)
There'll Be Some Changes Made (The Boswell Sisters)
Eadie Was A Lady (Ethel Merman, Take A Chance)
She (Charles Aznavour)
She Cried (Jay And The Americans)
Stop There! (Peter Saide, Desperate Measures)
I Want It All (Liz Callaway, Catherine Cox, Beth Fowler, Baby)
I Happen To Like New York (Bobby Short)
Take Me Back To Manhattan (Eileen Rodgers, Anything Goes)
Anyone Can Whistle (Lee Remick, Anyone Can Whistle)
Uptown, Downtown (Craig Lucas, Marry Me A Little)
Never Again/Sail Away (Christine Ebersole, Christine Ebersole Sings Noel Coward)
Never Never Land (Mary Martin, Peter Pan)
The Party's Over (Judy Holliday, Bells Are Ringing)
The Party's Over (Judy Holliday, Bells Are Ringing)
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