Playlist for Nov. 27, 2022: Pass the Tofurkey!

 As I type this, Rochester and its neighbors have dodged a huge precipitation bullet and "let it snow" all points west, and slightly south (meaning Orchard Park and Cheeeeeektowaga and Buffalo); we didn't even have to LOOK at our shovels. I didn't crack open the rock salt either. I did get my boot tray out, found the boots that go on it, as well as my Santa PJs from Walmart (fashion abounds here in The Cobblestone). Because no doubt the next storm will be all ours, so I am now ready, if not willing.

The theme for this coming Thanksgiving Edition has absolutely nothing to do with that holiday. There just aren't enough Thanksgiving "carols" on Broadway. Or anthems. Or pilgrim love ballads (Grim is in THE NAME)(would Plain And Simple count?). So we're going to just brush by this holiday, spit spot, and riff on another theme entirely: Anything. As in I can make a theme out of Anything. And I have. Plus Something. And Someone and Anyone. Yup, I'm definitely scrounging from the bottom of the Broadway Barrel this time, for a theme that is, NOT the quality. That's first rate, of course. :)

 

So there will be none of this (above)...back when balloons weren't part of a movie franchise or Disney or Marvel, et.al. 

I think that's just a large bug. Or a bug/dragon.

But remember these folks? Betty! Lorne!

And Shirley! On a snow castle.

 

On the agenda: "Anyone Can Whistle" and "Anything Goes", but "Someone Keeps Sending Me Flowers", C.O.D.? (Does anyone under the age of 60 even remember what that means?). "I'd Do Anything", I'd even "Do Something", if "You Do Something To Me".  Although "I Never Do Anything Twice"! (Feel free to read anything at all into these lyrics.)

 

 

Dody Goodman is the one "Someone Is Sending [Me] Flowers" to...

and I just felt like singing her praises with a couple of photos.

She was born October 28, 1914, and lived to be 93!

Below, her delightful cameo in Grease. (Grease is the word, btw.)

Next week, Ira Gershwin (they say it's your birthday!). The following week, an early Christmas Special. So I'll stop with the wacky weekly themes for awhile. But see how easily Broadway conforms to...well, practically Anything? Something's Coming, I don't know what it is, but it is "Something Good"!

See you post-turkey/tofurkey/tofutti. And skoal! 

As you can see above, I'll be cooking with friends.

 

 

Anything Goes (Sutton Foster, Anything Goes)

Something's Coming (Larry Kert, West Side Story)

You Do Something To Me (Howard McGillin, Susan Powell, Fifty Million Frenchman)

Something To Dance About (Tyne Daly, Call Me Madam)

Something Sort Of Grandish (Ella Logan, David Wayne, Finian's Rainbow)

Something Very Strange (Elaine Stritch, Sail Away)

Something Good (Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, The Sound Of Music

There Must Be Something Better Than Love (Pearl Bailey, Arms And The Girl)

There's Gotta Be Something Better Than This (Gwen Verdon, Helen Gallagher, Thelma Oliver, Sweet Charity)

Do Something (David Josefsberg, Rob McClure, Honeymoon In Vegas

Something Different (Katrina Lenk, Tony Shaloub, The Band's Visit)

Something From A Dream (Hunter Foster, The Bridges Of Madison County)

Something Rotten (Brian d'Arcy James, Company, Something Rotten)

I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Judy Garland)

Anything You Can Do (Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Annie Get Your Gun

I'd Do Anything (Georgia Brown, Davy Jones, Oliver!)

Doesn't That Mean Anything To You? (Andrea Marcovicci, If I Were A Bell)

I Never Do Anything Twice (Millicent Martin, Side By Side By Sondheim)

Anything Can Happen In New York (Ray McDonald, Richard Quine, Mickey Rooney, Babes On Broadway)

Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You (Ida McCune)

Don't Be Anything Less Than Everything You Can Be (Deborah Graham, Vicki Lewis, Terry Kerwin, Stephen Fenning, Snoopy!!!)

Anyone Can Whistle (Stephen Sondheim, Sondheim Sings, Vol. 1)

Anyone Can Whistle (Tom Wopat, Leslie Kritzer, Barbara Cook, Sondheim On Sondheim)

Anyone Can Whistle (Lee Remick, Anyone Can Whistle

I'm A Brass Band (Gwen Verdon, Sweet Charity)

Someone Is Sending Me Flowers (Dody Goodman, Parade)

Please Send Me Someone (Fred Applegate, Mel Brook's Young Frankenstein)

Someone To Watch Over Me (Jodi Benson, Crazy For You)

Goodnight My Someone (Barbara Cook, The Music Man)

Someone To Fall Back On (Jason Robert Brown, Wearing Someone Else's Clothes)