Playlist For Sunday, January 28, 2024: Carpe? Maybe Manana

One of my gym-mates (yes, I have friends who like to sweat/perspire/GLOW as much as I) said something profound the other day. She said that January should be treated like a Sunday. A whole month of Sundays. Like a slow, low-expectation month. A pajama month. A tomato soup and grilled cheese in front of Netflix month, a chunky book and hot chocolate month. A carpe manana month. I like that.

 

Weathering weather, short days, looming taxes...that sorta stuff demands baby steps, naps, warm socks, scented candles, and heating pads. Not vim. For I am vimless. That is now a word. And I am the icon of Vimless-ness. I'm sneaking around the edges of the my To-Do list, side-eyeing those demanding chores, and overly layering (which means BIB...blankets in bed).

 

 

 

 

The one thing I HAVE done is (may the musical gods help me) sign up for the community band. Fifty two years ago, I played the saxophone. For all of 3 months of marching band. One summer. I was 15ish? Anyway, the leader of this band (Professor Hill?) has handed me a folder of sheet music, a pack of reeds, and a alto sax, and said Go. Learn. Get an embouchure. And I find myself honking away. 

 

 

 

 

So there's THAT! 

On every other subject, I remain ambivalent. Hence the theme of this Sunday's show: Yes. Well, no. Wait...maybe? Or as The Clash put it, "Is It Yes Or Is It No?" Something like that. (I am not playing The Clash.) But we'll have Yesses and Nos and Nots and Maybeees and we'll see what the decision is. Note: There are A LOT more nos in the Broadway canon than yesses. Yessiree, Bob. 

And then MAYBE I'll rev my engines and seize the actual day. And month. And year. One grilled cheese at a time. 

 

 

Gotta Be This Or That (Undecided)(Ensemble, Forever Plaid)

Yes (Liza Minnelli, Liza With A Z)

Yesterday I Loved You (Allen Case, Anne Jones, Once Upon A Mattress)

Yesterday, Tomorrow, And Today (Brian Stokes Mitchell, Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown)

No, No, Nanette (Ensemble, No, No, Nanette)

The Call Of The Sea (Bobby Van, No, No, Nanette)

I Want To Be Happy (Jack Gilford, Susan Watson, No, No, Nanette)

Yes, Indeedy (Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Jules Munshin, Take Me Out To The Ball Game)

Yes, We Have No Bananas (Jim Borstelmann, Company, Bullets Over Broadway)

No Strings (Richard Kiley, Diahann Carroll, No Strings)

There Is No Other Way (Soon Tek-Oh, Pacific Overtures)

No Lullabies For Luis (Ensemble, Runaways)

Upstairs At O'Neals (Ensemble, Upstairs At O'Neals)

Stools (Bebe Neuwirth, Douglas Bernstein, Richard Ryders, Upstairs At O'Neals)

Theatre-Party Ladies (John Driver, Jeffrey Haddow, Roger Neil, Scrambled Feet

She Is Not Thinking Of Me (Corey Cott, Gigi)

But Not For Me (Mary Martin, Girl Crazy)

Not A Day Goes By (Bernadette Peters, Sondheim Etc.)

A Secretary Is Not A Toy (Ensemble, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying)

Not For The Life Of Me (Sutton Foster, Thoroughly Modern Millie)

He's Not A Well Man (Barbra Streisand, Jack Kruschen, I Can Get It For You Wholesale)

Not While I'm Around (Ken Jennings, Angela Lansbury, Sweeney Todd)

I Do Not Know A Day I Did Not Love You (Tricia O'Neil, Walter Willison, Two By Two)

More I Cannot Wish You (Pat Rooney, Sr., Guys And Dolls)

Hey, Why Not? (Tony Roberts, Elaine Joyce, Sugar)

Maybe (Bobby Short, Bobby Short Is K-Ra-Zy for Gershwin)

Maybe I'll Come Back (Judy Garland, Judy)

Maybe (Andrea McArdle, Annie)

Maybe Love (Caroline Innerbichler, Shucked)

Maybe It Starts With Me (Shoshana Bean, Mr. Saturday Night)

Maybe It's Time For Me (Bernadette Peters, Sherry!)

Maybe This Time (Liza Minnelli, Cabaret)