Playlist For Sunday, June 4, 2023: I'll take an order of All, with Nuthin' on the side!

It's called Catastrophic Thinking! Heard about that? It's an absolute sort of Black and White take on the world...Everything's this OR that. It can't be gray. If it's bad, it's all bad (and the world may end, so let's call the whole thing off). If it's good, it's all good (and you may never come down to Earth again, to quote Mr. Hammerstein). I just heard the "catastrophic" terminology recently, and my mind sort of operates that way. Initially. After a 12 hour nap, or long bike ride, or anything that forces oxygen into my brain cells or demi-dementia sets in, I start mellowing out about the chance of Impending Doom, and Rationality eeks in. I guess I should put Rationality in quotes.

 

This is one of the images you get when you put "Impending Doom" in your Google Search. 

And that's the nature of the theme this Sunday: All Er Nuthin' (hats off to Oscar for the ER). Half All songs, half Nothin' songs. Let me tell you right now that there are a lot more ALL songs in the Broadway (and Hollywood) canon than there are Nothing songs. So we will be All heavy. All I Do Is Dream Of You vs There Is Nothing Like A Lox. All I Need Is The Girl vs I Got Plenty Of Nothin'. Some songs have both! Huzzah!

 

Celeste Holm and Lee Dixon providing our theme song.

 

Samantha Pauly with an au courant take on All in SIX.

 

And Allan Sherman will represent with "There Is Nothing Like A Lox."

(He seems to feel the same about mixed nuts.)

Oh, and btw, I saw the "new and improved" Cinderella at Geva. Yes, it IS the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical and yet...this version sported a politically correct subplot of sorts, with a peasant hesitantly leading a lower-class revolt. The king isn't being nice so we will have a demonstration! Annnnd one of the stepsisters IS being nice. WOW. And I also think they added in a couple of songs that weren't R&H. This is super evident. Despite my tendency to grow bored with Richard and Oscar, they COULD WRITE a freakin' song. The new ones stand out like the proverbial sore digit. But I ushered with the best of 'em. The "professional" ushers tutored me kindly in the art of "right this way", and I did enjoy seeing a few young princesses who'd come tiara-ed for the occasion. 

 

Alexis Sims as Ella did a wonderful job! 

And I didn't mind the puppets that much at all. 

Anyway, enjoy the very un-Rochester-like weather, have a great week...think non-binary, think "in the gray"....and I'll see you All Er Nuthin'ing on Sunday!

 

 All Er Nuthin' (Celeste Holm, Lee Dixon, Oklahoma!)

All I Do Is Dream Of You (Debbie Reynolds, Singin' In The Rain)

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

I Could Have Danced All Night (Lauren Ambrose, My Fair Lady)

Nothing (Priscilla Lopez, A Chorus Line)

I Got Plenty Of Nothin' (Harry Belafonte, Porgy & Bess)

Nothing Is New In New York (Ensemble, Breakfast At Tiffany's)

I'm Not At All In Love (Kelli O'Hara, The Pajama Game)

All Through The Night (Hal Linden, Barbara Lang, Anything Goes)

We're Gonna Be Alright (David Kernan, Millicent Martin, Side By Side By Sondheim)

There Is Nothing Like A Dame (Danny Burstein, Ensemble, South Pacific)

There Is Nothing Like A Lox (Allan Sherman, The Lost Song Parodies of Alan Sherman)

All About Ruprecht (John Lithgow, Norbert Leo Butz, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)

All You Need Is A Quarter (Ensemble, Do Re Mi)

All I Owe Ioway (John Davidson, State Fair)

All You Wanna Do (Samantha Pauly, SIX)

Nothin' Up (Ahna O'Reilly, The Robber Bridegroom)

Nothing In Common (Jason Robert Brown, Wearing Someone Else's Clothes)

All Or Nothing At All (Frank Sinatra)

All For You (Lauren Ward, Saturday Night)

All That Jazz (Jessica Molaskey, Make Believe)

All Of Me/I Won't Dance (Ann Hampton Callaway, Everett Bradley, Swing!)

Every Little Nothing (Elizabeth Parrish, Eileen Brennan, Little Mary Sunshine)

Nothing Is Too Wonderful To Be True (Sherie Rene Scott, Norbert Leo Butz, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)

When Love Goes Wrong, Nothing Goes Right (Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)

Honor To Us All (Beth Fowler, Marni Nixon, Lea Salonga, Mulan)

All That Matters (Laura Michelle Kelly, Finding Neverland)

All Of My Life (Nathan Lane, Do Re Mi)