Playlist For Sunday, May 19, 2024: Devil May Care!

Okay, I'll admit it. I slept thru the Northern Lights. On the first night (Friday? the 10th?), I totally forgot and went to bed at 10. The second night, I remembered and went to be bed at 9:30. I do have an excuse: Both mornings I had gotten up at 4:30am, so sans a Nap Time, I was comatose by twilight. But now I regret it. All "those photos up on the wall" (Company), this time the wall of FaceBook, and I have nary a one. Ah well...at least I got some beauty sleep, as all around me will no doubt appreciate. (Hah!) 

Yep, missed it!

 

But another week, another theme, right? And this one was simply HANDED to me, from current events (the OTHER less celestial current events)! Bad guys. Villains. Evil Doers. Staring out (or sleeping mid-witness?) from allllll of my screens this week. Fortunately for us, most real life villains don't jump up and sing and dance (cuz they'd for sure be off key and fail miserably at slap ball changes). So I DEFINITELY prefer Broadway Bad Guys. They can hoof. :)

 

That's the theme, Broadway Villains annnnnd Broadway Heroes. Can't have one without the other. Can't have baloney without whipped cream, or so sayeth Moe. And that's easy, too. Plenty of musical champions and their nemesisssses (nemisi?) on the Great White Way. 

 

Mr. Applegate, brought to you by Ray Walston.

 

Bob Holiday as The Man Of Steel!

 

Clive Revill, possibly recording his version of Fagin.

Brian d'Arcy James as good guy Shrek 

(oh, and that's Daniel Breaker as Donkey...who I saw as Aaron Burr in Hamilton!)

 

 

So Superman, Shrek, Mr. Applegate, Ursula, a White Knight, Mordred...that's who's scheduled to appear. Exhortations to Be Good, Do Good, rescue the planet or change the world, along with temptations and poison cake and musical MEANess! The gamut (which I once heard pronounced ga-MUTT. Whatever). 

Take a break from Real Life Bad Un's and enjoy the Villains that can modulate, sing a sneer, and pirouette a threat. And take heart with those Heroes (I need a hero!) lifting us up (wind beneath my wings? Ugh. No.). It'll be fun...on Broadway. 

 

I Wanna Be Bad (Annette Hanshaw)

Captain Hook's Waltz (Cyril Ritchard, Peter Pan)

Poor Unfortunate Souls (Sherie Rene Scott, The Little Mermaid)

Witches' Brew (Leslie Uggams, Ensemble, Hallelujah, Baby!)

I'm A Bad, Bad Man (Ray Middleton, Annie Get Your Gun)

Bad Companions (Nathaniel Frey, Margaret Hamilton, Ensemble, Goldilocks)

Bad (John Behlmann, Shucked)

Reviewing The Situation (Clive Revill, Oliver!)

They Don't Know (Harriet Harris, Thoroughly Modern Millie)

You Can Get Away With Anything (Michael Crawford, The Woman In White)

The Seven Deadly Virtues (Roddy McDowell, Camelot)

Those Were The Good Old Days (Ray Walston, Damn Yankees)

Revenge (Michael O'Sullivan, It's A Bird...It's A Plane...It's Superman)

Dentist! (Douglas Sills, Little Shop Of Horrors)

Think Vulgar (David Ross, Emil Wolk, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)

Be Prepared (Jon Vickery, Lion King)

Hello, Little Girl (Robert Westenberg, Into The Woods)

Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf  (Barbra Streisand)

Zero To Hero (LaChanze, Lillias White, Ensemble, Hercules)

Man Of La Mancha (Richard Kiley, Man Of La Mancha)

My White Knight (Barbara Cook, The Music Man)

It's Superman (Patricia Marand, It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman)

Doing Good (Bob Holiday, It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman)

Being Good (Leslie Uggams, Hallelujah, Baby!)

Be Good Or Be Gone (Cass Morgan, Pump Boys And Dinettes)

Something Good (Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, The Sound Of Music)

Fie On Goodness (Ensemble, Camelot)

Heroes (Janet Dacal, Ensemble, Wonderland)

Who I'd Be (Brian d'Arcy James, Sutton Foster, Shrek)

Be The Hero (Norbert Leo Butz, Company, Big Fish)

There Won't Be Trumpets (Bernadette Peters, Anyone Can Whistle)

Once In A Lifetime (Anthony Newley, Stop The World I Want To Get Off)

One Person (Angela Lansbury, Company, Dear World)