Friday, July 5, 2013
From Hairspray...With Hairspray
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Playlist for Sunday, July 7, 2013: Opa!
Anthony Quinn? Well, even though I lived in NYC at the time of the 1983 revival of Zorba, I succeeded in missing his Broadway musical debut... I'm just now "discovering" this Kander and Ebb musical. Still not convinced of Tony's vocal expertise, I'll use the opening number, "Life Is," which doesn't feature him. Opa!
Another newbie to 2 on the Aisle is "Bounce," a Stephen Sondheim musical that's never made it to Broadway, about two REAL ne're do well brothers (with lots of get rich schemes) who died on the same day. Perfect fodder for a musical, right? Well...again, a great opening number, but I remain unconvinced about the rest of the show.
Add a smattering of Spamalot, some epic South Pacific and Sweeney, and shake well! Til' Sunday then...
Life Is (Cast, Zorba)
Bounce (Richard Kind and Howard McGillan, Bounce)
The Worst Pies in London (Angela Lansbury, Sweeney Todd)
A Puzzlement (Yul Brynner, The King and I)
Bali Ha'i (Juanita Hall, South Pacific)
People (Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl)
Summertime (Lena Horne, Porgy & Bess)
I'm All Alone (Tim Curry and Cast, Spamalot)
Mama, I'm A Big Girl Now (Marissa Jaret Winokur and Cast, Hairspray)
Go Back Home (Audra McDonald, The Scottsboro Boys)
Poems (Isao Sato, Sab Shimono, Pacific Overtures)
Let Me Entertain You (Sandra Church, Gypsy)
Moving Uptown (Eartha Kitt, The Wild Party)
So Long, Farewell (Children's ensemble, The Sound of Music)
Another newbie to 2 on the Aisle is "Bounce," a Stephen Sondheim musical that's never made it to Broadway, about two REAL ne're do well brothers (with lots of get rich schemes) who died on the same day. Perfect fodder for a musical, right? Well...again, a great opening number, but I remain unconvinced about the rest of the show.
Add a smattering of Spamalot, some epic South Pacific and Sweeney, and shake well! Til' Sunday then...
Life Is (Cast, Zorba)
Bounce (Richard Kind and Howard McGillan, Bounce)
The Worst Pies in London (Angela Lansbury, Sweeney Todd)
A Puzzlement (Yul Brynner, The King and I)
Bali Ha'i (Juanita Hall, South Pacific)
People (Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl)
Summertime (Lena Horne, Porgy & Bess)
I'm All Alone (Tim Curry and Cast, Spamalot)
Mama, I'm A Big Girl Now (Marissa Jaret Winokur and Cast, Hairspray)
Go Back Home (Audra McDonald, The Scottsboro Boys)
Poems (Isao Sato, Sab Shimono, Pacific Overtures)
Let Me Entertain You (Sandra Church, Gypsy)
Moving Uptown (Eartha Kitt, The Wild Party)
So Long, Farewell (Children's ensemble, The Sound of Music)
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Yes, that IS Peter Falk!
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Playlist for Sunday, June 30, 2013: Back and LIVE!
Jet lag is over, and I'm ready for another 2 ON THE AISLE!
This week's show has its share of iconic and peculiar. On the epic side, we have Too Darn Hot, which is how my heat-waved hair left me feeling in Italy last week, along with The Heather on the Hill from Brigadoon. On the peculiar side, The Production Code, which is a tap-danced recitation of the Hollywood censorship code...hey, it works! You can actually dance to this stuff.
Along with all that are two selections from Me and My Girl, an English musical originally produced in 1937, about a cockney costermonger (wow...had to look that one up! A street-side fruit and veggie seller) who finds out he's the 14th Earl of something-shire and his galfriend, Sally...my new favorite musical.
Stay cool out there...and hope you can tune it!
The Best of Times (George Hearn and cast, La Cage Aux Folles)
Too Darn Hot (Harold Lang and cast, Kiss Me Kate)
Prisoners of Love (Nathan Lane and cast, The Producers)
Me and My Girl (Robert Lindsay, Maryann Plunkett, Me and My Girl)
Lucky to Be Me (John Battles, On the Town)
I Got Lost in His Arms (Ethel Merman, Annie Get Your Gun)
Once You Lose Your Heart (Maryann Plunkett, Me and My Girl)
Two by Two (Andrew Rannells, Josh Gad and cast, The Book of Mormon)
I Don't Know Where She Got It (Lillian Hayman, Hallelujah, Baby!)
If I Were a Bell (Isabel Bigley, Guys and Dolls)
The Heather on the Hill (David Brooks, Marion Bell, Brigadoon)
Waiting, Waiting (Nancy Walker, Do Re Mi)
The Production Code (Ensemble, A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine)
This week's show has its share of iconic and peculiar. On the epic side, we have Too Darn Hot, which is how my heat-waved hair left me feeling in Italy last week, along with The Heather on the Hill from Brigadoon. On the peculiar side, The Production Code, which is a tap-danced recitation of the Hollywood censorship code...hey, it works! You can actually dance to this stuff.
Along with all that are two selections from Me and My Girl, an English musical originally produced in 1937, about a cockney costermonger (wow...had to look that one up! A street-side fruit and veggie seller) who finds out he's the 14th Earl of something-shire and his galfriend, Sally...my new favorite musical.
Stay cool out there...and hope you can tune it!
The Best of Times (George Hearn and cast, La Cage Aux Folles)
Too Darn Hot (Harold Lang and cast, Kiss Me Kate)
Prisoners of Love (Nathan Lane and cast, The Producers)
Me and My Girl (Robert Lindsay, Maryann Plunkett, Me and My Girl)
Lucky to Be Me (John Battles, On the Town)
I Got Lost in His Arms (Ethel Merman, Annie Get Your Gun)
Once You Lose Your Heart (Maryann Plunkett, Me and My Girl)
Two by Two (Andrew Rannells, Josh Gad and cast, The Book of Mormon)
I Don't Know Where She Got It (Lillian Hayman, Hallelujah, Baby!)
If I Were a Bell (Isabel Bigley, Guys and Dolls)
The Heather on the Hill (David Brooks, Marion Bell, Brigadoon)
Waiting, Waiting (Nancy Walker, Do Re Mi)
The Production Code (Ensemble, A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine)
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