Playlist for Sun., Dec. 3rd, 2023: It's My Party, and I'll decorate when I want to.

Well, we've made it into Limbo Land...poised as we are between one holiday and another. Awww hell, let's just take the entire 6 weeks and call it Thanksmas or Chrisgiving. One huge Holidaze of buying, feasting, deco-ing, and White Christmas watching.  I saw my first Scotch Pine lashed to a Subaru Outback this morning, vegan-ly replacing a six-point buck, I guess...but how do these folks make a real tree last til New Years? Feed it a secret concoction of Pinesol and Gordon's? I wait, wait, wait (my motto: Procrastinate, then Panic) til like the 20th of December, and then call on Christmas Magic to descend and decorate. Quickly. 

 

So in the same (open) vein, we'll be putting off the holiday tunes (and festooning) for awhile. December 24th's 2 On The Aisle will be chocked full of 'em, but not one Sunday sooner. I'm sure you'll have plenty of carols and Bings and Mariah Careys on those "other stations", plus Jazz90.1's Jingle Jazz Radio has started up (that's our sister internet station), with its jazzy take on those perennials. So just sit in wild anticipation for the Broadway versions, okay?

 

Lesley cries at her own party...

Patti urges you (and Argentina) NOT to cry...

and Shirley exhorts us to "Smile, You Son-of-a-Gun!"

(Yes, that's a brave Adolph Menjou who co-starred with ST

in Little Miss Marker...who gives HIM a 2nd glance?)

 

Meanwhile:
Smile, Laugh, Cry, Weep...yes, that's our next theme on Broadway (and Beyond) at its Best. I have so many falls "off" that Broadway Bandwagon that I really mean the "Beyond" part this week. Plus there seem to be a lot more CRYING songs than SMILING songs (we love to cry in our cornflakes, I guess), so it's a bit tear-heavy. Ahhh well, them's the breaks. It's a sentimental time of year anyway, so get your CRY on with Patti, Frank, Lesley, Laura, and Ann. Denizens like you need no last names, right?

The lovely Laura Benanti teams up with Adam Guettel

for "Glad To Be Unhappy"...

And we swing over to Frank...cuz Frank is alone and sad.

 

So grin, so bear! The panettone and cucidati will be arriving MUSICALLY on apace, no worries. Meanwhile, Smile Girls, Make 'Em Laugh, and Hey Look, No Crying. (Who's crying? I'm not crying. YOU'RE crying.) :)

When You're Smiling (Judy Garland, Judy At Carnegie Hall)

Smile, Girls (Patti LuPone, Gypsy)

You're Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile (Donald Craig, Laurie Beechman, Ensemble, Annie)

Smile, Smile (Leslie Uggams, Lillian Hayman, Robert Hooks, Hallelujah, Baby!)

Make 'Em Laugh (Donald O'Connor, Singin' In The Rain)

I Wanna Make The World Laugh (Robert Preston, Mack & Mabel)

Laugh, You Son Of A Gun (Shirley Temple, Little Miss Marker)

Laughin' All The Way To The Bank (Bernard Dotson, Sweet Smell Of Success)

When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (John McCormick)

When You're Smiling (Billie Holiday)

Promises, Promises (Jerry Orbach, Promises, Promises)

Knowing When To Leave (Jill O'Hara, Promises, Promises)

Turkey Lurkey Time (Ensemble, Promises, Promises)

Big Girls Don't Cry (John Lloyd Young, Ensemble, Jersey Boys)

It's My Party (Lesley Gore)

Cry (Stan Chandler, Jason Graae, Guy Stroman, David Engel, Forever Plaid)

Cry Me A River (Laura Benanti, Swing!)

Me And My Shadow (Nat Shilkret and his Orchestra, with Johnny Marvin)

The Shadow Knows (Theme to The Shadow Radio Show)

We Kiss In A Shadow (Doretta Morrow, Larry Douglas, The King And I)

I'm Shadowing You (Blossom Dearie)

Me And My Shadow (Peggy Lee, Is That All There Is?)

They All Laughed (Fred Astaire, Shall We Dance?)

Don't Laugh (Victoria Clark, Sondheim! The Birthday Concert)

Live, Laugh, Love (George Hearn, Follies)

I Love To Cry At Weddings (John Wheeler, Company, Sweet Charity)

Crying (Jay And The Americans)

Hey Look, No Crying (Frank Sinatra, She Shot Me Down)

Don't Cry For Me, Argentina (Patti LuPone, Evita)

Willow Weep For Me (Ann Hampton Callaway, Blues In The Night)

Glad To Be Unhappy (Jessica Molaskey, Make Believe)

Make Someone Happy (Audra McDonald, Go Back Home) 

Smile (Natalie Cole)