Playlist For Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023: A BBB Edition...Broadway Birthday Bevy

The Holiday To Do List is growing. Menus to concoct, gifts to (sustainably?) wrap, decorations to find (hey, I only have 2 closets in this house, how deep can they be buried?), and that TREE that is only 2 feet taller than my ceiling!?! What was I thinking? It'll take up half of my living room. Either the tree gets trimmed or I chuck my couch. (Who needs a couch. Elves can sit anywhere.) 

Multiply the height and girth of this specimen by 10 and you have MY tree.

 

So I'm finally getting into a bit of the Christmas-y mood around here (and the spiked eggnog doesn't hurt). Snow would help, too, as opposed to this "dank tarn of Auber" weather, but NYS-ers can't be choosers. Maybe it'll be a Brown Christmas, Bing.

Meanwhile, amidst all the fah and the lah, there are a bevy of Broadway Birthdays to salute around here. I always feel a bit sorry for those Sagittarians who most likely end up squelching their special days into the holi-days..."Oh, here's a slightly larger present, for BOTH your birthday annnnnnd Kwanzaa!" That kind of squelch. Overshadowed. Short-changed. 

 

Sammy's birthday (above with Paula Wayne) is Dec. 8th...

and Frank's (below with Betty Garrett) is Dec. 12th.

 

So we'll make amends. Sammy Davis, Jr. (who did 2 Broadway shows, BTW) and Frank Sinatra (who did 0 Broadway shows, BTW) both have birthdays this coming week. As do the lyricists Ira Gershwin and Lew Brown. Annnnd it's the opening anniversary of City Of Angels, My Favorite Year, and Swing! That means a heckuva lot of confetti and cake and huzzahs. Maybe we can think of it as a warm up session pre- all those holiday parties.

 

Evan Pappas and Tim Curry in My Favorite Year,

which opened on Dec. 10, 1992.

Hard to believe City Of Angels opened 34 years ago!

Dec. 11th, 1989

 

And Swing! premiered on Dec. 9, 1999.

 

And remember: The Christmas Edition of 2 On The Aisle premiers on the 24th, okay? Annnnnd on January 7th, Bellisant (demon child from Philly) will return to join me for another co-hosting edition. Hot damn. They always soup up the show, right? So just always tune in, because you don't want to miss anything Broadway. :)))

 

You're A Builder Upper (Christopher Fitzgerald, Jessica Stone, Life Begins At 8:40)

Welcome To Brooklyn (Evan Pappas, Lainie Kazan, Tim Curry, Ensemble, My Favorite Year)

Manhattan (Tim Curry, My Favorite Year)

My Favorite Year (Evan Pappas, Company, My Favorite Year)

I'll Be Glad When You're Dead (You Rascal, You)(Sammy Davis, Jr., Rufus T Jones For President)

Too Close For Comfort (Sammy Davis, Jr., Mr. Wonderful)

Night Song (Sammy Davis, Jr., Golden Boy)

Don't Forget About 127th Street (Sammy Davis, Jr., Johnny Brown, Golden Boy)

Subway Directions/Ride Through The Night (Sydney Chaplain, Carol Lawrence, Subways Are For Sleeping)

Strange Duet (Orson Bean, Phyllis Newman, Subways Are For Sleeping)

Be A Santa (Sydney Chaplin, Ensemble, Subways Are For Sleeping)

Button Up Your Overcoat (Helen Kane)

Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries (Walter Harrah & Friends)

Birth Of The Blues (Keely Smith, Louie Prima)

You're Awful (Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, On The Town)

Time After Time (Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante, It Happened In Brooklyn)

If You Knew Susie (Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Anchors Aweigh)

You'll Get Yours (Frank Sinatra)

Seesaw (Company, Seesaw)

We've Got It (Ken Howard, Seesaw)

Chapter 54, Number 1909 (Tommy Tune, Ken Howard, Michele Lee, Seesaw)

They Can't Take That Away From Me (Harry Groener, Crazy For You)

The Man That Got Away (Judy Garland, A Star Is Born)

Long Ago (And Far Away) (Ann Hampton Callaway, Jazz Goes To The Movies)

Prologue - Theme From City Of Angels (James Naughton, Ensemble, City Of Angels)

Lost And Found (Rachel York, City Of Angels)

Double Talk Walk (Gregg Edelman, City Of Angels)

With Every Breath I Take (Kay McClelland, City Of Angels)

Blues In The Night (Ann Hampton Callaway, Swing!)

In The Mood/Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (Company, Swing!)