Do you get your tarot reading every morning? I have this one person I follow on YouTube who reads tarot cards from an astrological "bent" on a daily basis. Towers here, 5 of cups there...specifically for Libras or Capricorns or the Aries in your life. For May, for instance, I have Stability on top of Stability. My house is not made of sticks or straw, I am told; it's reinforced steel. Who knew? A 200 year old cobblestone? Hey, she's saying "You got ground" this month. Yet...she flips another card and sees that it's a time to rest and recharge...and then a STAR card! (Okay, I'll take a frickin' nap and be a STAR!)...yadda yadda yadda. Do I believe all this star "dust"? Do I trust a handful of medieval Swords and Queens and Hanging Men? Yes! And No.
But I do enjoy these "seers'" positivity. They can take the Death Card and swivel it, swerve it, and twerk it, to mean Hope and Opportunity and the death of bad crap. THAT I like! Plus she talks nice and calm. Brings down my cortisol levels. My BP. My shoulders come down from their home in my ears. Sort of like a Joe Pera smoothy.
Hence, the kernel of a theme/idea grew in my pre-frontal, and the result is this week's edition: Stars And The Moon. I don't know of any musical that features tarot cards, so that idea had to be jettisoned. (A fortune teller "machine" does appear in Big, but I don't think she had a solo.) But there are plenty, nay a plethora, of star-studded songs and moon melodies...one from Hair, another from Mame, Funny Girl, Goldilocks, plus errant ballads from Doris and Audra and Babs and Bernadette.
A little Starshine here,
a little Moonlight there...
And a little Angela (and Bea) as the "lady" in the Mame Moon!
Star Tars, The Man In The Moon, Lady Day, Jiminy Cricket...we're all made out of Star Dust, right? So even if it's no longer the Age Of Aquarius (I'll say), we can still float out there for a while, fly to the moon, and wish on a star. :) See ya "Sun"day!
Stars And The Moon (Sutton Foster, Take Me To The World)
The Man In The Moon Is A Lady (Bea Arthur, Angela Lansbury, Mame)
Lazy Moon (Ensemble, Sail Away)
Once In A Blue Moon (John McMartin, Elmarie Wendel, Little Mary Sunshine)
Ridin' On The Moon (Stanley Wayne Mathis, St. Louis Woman)
What A Little Moonlight Can Do (Audra McDonald, Lady Day At Emerson's Bar And Grill)
Fly Me To The Moon (Max Von Essen, Call Me Old Fashioned)
Moon In My Window (Elizabeth Allen, Carol Bruce, Julienne Marie, Do I Hear A Waltz?)
Good Morning Starshine (Cassie Levy, Hair)
Bright Star (A.J. Shively, Bright Star)
We're All Made Of Stars (Aiden Demme, Ensemble, Finding Neverland)
I See Stars (Erika Henningsen, Mean Girls)
Dancing In The Moonlight (Ruth Etting)
It's Only A Paper Moon (Cliff Edwards)
Moon Song (Annette Hanshaw)
Oh, To Be A Movie Star (Barbara Harris, The Apple Tree)
Poor Little Hollywood Star (Virginia Martin, Little Me)
Star! (Julie Andrews, Star!)
I'm The Greatest Star (Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl)
Star Tar (Bernadette Peters, Dames At Sea)
Swinging On A Star (Bing Crosby)
I'll Buy You A Star (Johnny Johnston, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn)
You Are My Lucky Star (Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Singin' In The Rain)
Many Moons Ago (Harry Snow, Once Upon A Mattress)
When You're Driving Through The Moonlight (Julie Andrews, Alice Ghostley, Kaye Ballard, Ilka Chase, Cinderella)
There's A Rising Moon (Doris Day, Young At Heart)
The Moon And I (Kevin Chamberlain, The Addams Family)
Blue Moon (Ann Hampton Calloway, Blues In The Night)
Moon River (Audra McDonald)
The Greatest Star (Patti LuPone, Daniel Benzali, Sunset Boulevard)
Friendly Star (Judy Garland, Summer Stock)
When You Wish Upon A Star (Cliff Edwards, Pinocchio)
When You Get Lost Between The Moon And New York City (Chris Cross, Arthur)
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