In the last week or so, I've actually BEEN to the theatre. I put on my nice duds, I gassed up the dog sled, I carved a route on a rock, and forged thru 60 degree weather (quelle brrrr!). Actually I went twice, if you can count a music performance as "theatre". I will. I will count it. It now counts. :)
The Platters (avec Les Drifters) in Geneva, and SIX (their capitalization, not my arbitrary type) at RBTL. Totally different audiences, as you'd assume. The Platters, all of whom have gone to their heavenly doo-wop rest, have all new "plates", but manage to keep the legacy alive. Same with The Drifters...literally scores of vocalists have "drifted" in and out of this group, so I guess you could say what I really saw were two tribute groups. This performance took place at the neatly restored Smith Opera House, and I pre-theatre fed myself at Bella's Sicilian Restaurant across the street. Where the owner sang New York, New York to a packed and pasta-ed crowd. (He needed to sing more!) I won't go into the very peculiar AirBnB I stayed the night in. Suffice it to say, I survived the evening and lived to see a breakfast sandwich and almost good coffee the morning after.
SIX!? The audience crept to a younger average age. Not many blue haired bobs at this. Nope. ANNNND all them young'uns knew the lyrics and greeted each "queen" with thunderous applause, hoots, and yowzas. The tunes are indeed catchier than pink eye, and my only problem was the lack of a sensible reason to get together. Which queen has suffered more at Henry's hand? What the...That's the reason you're rock-starring all over us? Well, it was short. I was home and tucked in by 10pm. (The dog sled did its work.) But I'd pass next time, and just play the music loud here at home. The county sherriff might be called, so if you read about a disturbance in the Orleans Hub, that'd be me.
TOO much typing. Here's the playlist...and it's a blue-haired S'Wonderful one! Enjoy the better and better weather, think wonderful (and lovely says Peter Pan) thoughts and see ya Sunday for S'Wunderbaring!
S'Wonderful (Gene Kelly, George Guetary, An American In Paris)
A Wonderful Day Like Today (Cyril Ritchard, The Roar Of The Greasepaint, The Smell Of The Crowd)
I May Be Wrong (But I Think You're Wonderful)(Doris Day, Harry James and his orchestra)
They Say It's Wonderful (Bernadette Peters, Tom Wopat, Annie Get Your Gun)
Wonderful Guy (Kelli O'Hara, South Pacific)
Wonderful Copenhagen (Danny Kaye, Hans Christian Andersen)
Something Wonderful (Ruthie Ann Miles, The King And I)
Mr. Wonderful (Peggy Lee, Black Coffee)
In The Good Old Summer Time (The Hadyn Quartet)
Summertime (Lena Horne, Porgy And Bess)
The Song Of Purple Summer (Spring Awakening
I Wonder What The King Is Doing Tonight (Richard Burton, Camelot)
I Wonder (Mary Costa, Sleeping Beauty)
Wondering (Stephen Pasquale, The Bridges Of Madison County)
I Wonder Where Our Love Has Gone (Audra McDonald, Lady Day At Emerson's Bar And Grill)
You Wonder How These Things Happen (Jerry Orbach, The Fantasticks)
Soon It's Gonna Rain (Rita Gardner, Kenneth Nelson, The Fantasticks)
Try To Remember (Company, The Fantasticks)
Some Kind Of Wonderful (The Drifters)
Some Kind Of Wonderful (Jessie Mueller, Jake Epstein, E. Clayton Cornelius, Ensemble, Beautiful: The Carol King Musical)
Christopher Street (Warren Galjour, Ensemble, Wonderful Town)
Ohio (Rosalind Russell, Edith Adams, Wonderful Town)
Swing! (Rosalind Russell, Ensemble, Wonderful Town)
He's Only Wonderful (Barbara Cook, Jerome Courtland)
Wunderbar (Brian Stokes Mitchell, Marin Mazzie, Kiss Me Kate)
Wonderful (Joel Grey, Wicked)
Souvenirs (Elaine Stritch, Ben Bagley's Rodgers & Hart Revisited, Vol. 4))
Someday I'll Find You (Christine Ebersole, Christine Ebersole Sings Noel Coward)
It Never Was You (Judy Garland, I Could Go On Singing)
They Say It's Wonderful (Ethel Merman, Ray Middleton, Annie Get Your Gun)
S'Wonderful (Bobby Short, Bobby Short Is K-RA-ZY For Gershwin)
They Say It's Wonderful (Max Von Essen, Call Me Old Fashioned)
S'Wonderful (Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, Funny Face)
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