Playlist For Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024: Another Cuppa Joe

1/3 down (well, almost), 2/3 to go (well, almost). 

Not talking about the fruitcake "aging" in the fridge. Not talking about that 7am Boot Camp class when I'm counting the minutes to finish. I'm talking about the 90 (wait, 91...it's Leap Year) Day Countdown, from January 1 to April 1, the Not-For-Me Season of the Year. The Gulag. The Edgar Allen Poe Dank Tarn Moment. Gray, slushy, mushy, depressing (unless you're a well adjusted poet, Zen Master, or Stoic), hardly fashionable thing called Winter.

 

Maybe all I need is a frilly umbrella? Nah.

 

So I keep a tally, a count, a day by day (like I'm in prison, chalking 'em up on the wall of my cell), until that first sign of Spring Sun and Fun.

 

 

And drinking. Well, mostly (daily) coffee. So as you can imagine, this show's theme wrote itself. Coffee, espresso, tea, all those caffeinated cuppas...plus a few beverages that require ice (or special glasses, or olives). Because it's the "Let's Have Another Cuppa" Edition, with songs from Loesser, Porter, Kander (mit Ebb), Berlin, and Hamlisch. And on the non-Broadway side (yup, I definitely fall off that wagon this Sunday), we'll have The Boswells, The Inkspots, Ella Mae, annnnnd The Chairman of the Board. We have a lot of drinking to do, and we'll need Representation from all persuasions/genres/percolators/french-presses/loose-leaf/and straight-no-chasers.

 

Meanwhile, some sort of precipitation is falling out there. I don't know if I should drag out the sandbags, fling the rock salt, vaccuum those leftover leaves, or call "my guy" to plow. Gulag Living requires flexibility and resourcefulness. I have those, just not always the UMPH to employ them.

 

 I guess I need another cuppa coffee.

 

 

Let's Have Another Cup Of Coffee (Kevin Chamberlin, Judy Kuhn, Ensemble, As Thousands Cheer)

Coffee Break (Charles Nelson Reilly, Claudette Sutherland, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying)

40 Cups Of Coffee (Ella Mae Morse)

The Coffee Song (Frank Sinatra)

Coffee, Black (Daniel H. Jenkins, Jon Cypher, Big)

Coffee In A Card Board Cup (Gil Lamb, Mildred Natwick, Ensemble, 70, Girls, 70)

Coffee Break (Frank Loesser, An Evening With Frank Loesser)

Have Another Espresso (Shel Silverstein, Inside Folk Music)

You're The Cream In My Coffee (Annette Hanshaw) 

A Cup Of Coffee, A Sandwich, And You (Jack Buchanan, Gertrude Lawrence, Charlotte's Review)

Coffee In The Morning & Kisses In The Night (Gus Arnheim & His Orchestra, Vocals Jimmy Newell)

Nothing (Priscilla Lopez, A Chorus Line)

Something (Douglas Berstein, Upstairs At O'Neals)

Fugue For Tin Horns (Stubby Kaye, Johnny Silver, Douglas Deane, Guys And Dolls)

Fugue For Scalpers (Ensemble, Forbidden Broadway, Vol. 2)

Quiet Coffee (Sally Kellerman, Breakfast At Tiffany's)

The Java Jive (The Inkspots)

Black Coffee (Ann Hampton Callaway, A Peggy Lee Celebration)

Tea For Two (Doris Day, Tea For Two)

Tea For Two (Instrumental, No, No, Nannette)

When I Take My Sugar To Tea (The Boswell Sisters)

Everything Stops For Tea (Jack Buchanan, Come Out Of The Pantry)

Drinkin' Shoes (Company, Pump Boys And Dinettes) 

Dry (Mandy Patinkin, Marc Kudisch, Jane Summerhays, Eartha Kitt, Ensemble, The Wild Party)

Say It With Gin (John McMartin, High Society)

Well, Did You Ever? (Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, High Society)

The Movin' Uptown Blues (Adam Grupper, Stuart Zagnit, The Wild Party)

Champagne (Lin-Manuel Miranda, Karen Olivo, In The Heights)

How Does The Wine Taste? (Barbra Streisand, We Take The Town)

Muffin Song (Louis Edmonds, John Irving, Ernest In Love)

A Nice Cup Of Tea (Binnie Hale, Home And Beauty)

Have Another Cup Of Tea (Company, The Likes Of Us)

You're The Cream In My Coffee (Miff Mole and His Little Molers)