Playlist For Sunday, June 2, 2024: To bust or not to bust, that's the question!

A rainy Memorial Day, so here I sit inside...kind of content, truth to tell. I snuck (sneaked? sneakered? snacked?) in a quick bike ride early, to avoid the forecasted forecast, but now it's like a free inside day. Am I turning into a rain-loving Otto Bruno? Maybe I'll paint a cabinet, maybe I'll re-binge Ripley...or nap, like a 68,000 year old lady is expected to. Or maybe I'll concoct another 2 On The Aisle playlist.

 

 

But I can't do JUNE. As in Carousel's JUNE. 

Because I never liked Carousel.

Too sappy. If I hear that soliloquy one more time. Clam Bakes. June busting out all over. Mr. Snow. Not for me. Same with most Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals. I sorta put up with 'em. Maybe Bloody Mary. Maybe that Goatherd song (once a year). Maybe Something Good (Elaine Stritch's version, less sap). That's about it. Otherwise, all those cowboys and farmers and nuns and Mitzi washing her hair give me headaches. 

 Tra La. It's June. Let's bust out!

ALTHOUGH June IS busting out, at last. And I guess I should play it? ....Nah.

But there is a birthday that we've gotta celebrate: Marvin Hamlisch's natal day is this week. We can't walk by that one (Gosh, "I hope I get it " THIS TIME!) or dance by it, either. Also Marilyn Monroe's BD is June 3. No, she did not do anything on Broadway, but she did "do" Hollywood, and I think she's underrated as a singer. That's my excuse anyway, and I'm sticking with it! 

 

Marvin and Marilyn...just a pair of Geminis.

 

Plus Chicago. It opened 49 years ago (June 3 is its anniversary) and it's still running (and running and running). I guess he really had it coming. The Razzle and the Dazzle are on loop.

 

So give a listen, if you can, come Sunday...enjoy your free inside (or outside) days as we bust out (or not) into June. (Okay, maybe I'll play it NEXT Sunday. But no promises.) Huzzah!

Lazy (Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, There's No Business Like Show Business)

Razzle Dazzle (Jerry Orbach, Chicago)

Roxie (Gwen Verdon, Chicago)

He Had It Coming/Cell Block Tango (Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ensemble, Chicago)

The Column (John Lithgow, Sweet Smell Of Success)

One Track Mind (John Noseworthy, Sweet Smell Of Success)

Welcome To The Night (John Lithgow, Ensemble, Sweet Smell Of Success)

Sunshine, Lollipops, and Roses (Lesley Gore)

The Travelin' Life (Liza Minnelli, Liza! Liza!)

Life Is What You Make It (Johnny Mathis)

A Private Man (Marvin Hamlisch)

Workin' It Out (Robert Klein, Lucie Arnaz, They're Playing Our Song)

Fallin' (Robert Klein, They're Playing Our Song)

They're Playing My Song (Company, They're Playing Our Song)

Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen (Company, A Chorus Line)

I Can Do That (Wayne Cilento, A Chorus Line)

I Hope I Get It (Company, A Chorus Line)

After You Get What You Want (Marilyn Monroe, There's No Business Like Show Business)

River Of No Return (Marilyn Monroe, River Of No Return)

Old Black Magic (Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Bus Stop)

Good News, Bad News (Martin Short, Bernadette Peters, Tammy Minoff, The Goodbye Girl)

What A Guy (Bernadette Peters, The Goodbye Girl)

Too Good To Be Bad (Bernadette Peters, Carol Woods, Susann Fletcher, The Goodbye Girl)

Dreamers (Sarah Brightman, Jean Seberg)

Nobody Does It Better (Carly Simon, The Spy Who Loved Me)

The Way We Were (Barbra Streisand, The Way We Were)

You'd Be Surprised (Marilyn Monroe)

Heat Wave (Marilyn Monroe, There's No Business Like Show Business)

Bye Bye Baby (Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)

Playlist For Sunday, May 26, 2024: Bibbidees!

Random thoughts: 

1.) George Clooney is coming to Broadway. Sutton's coming BACK to Broadway. Plus 1,700 shows have opened in the last 2 months, just in time to be celebrated (or ignored) by the Tonys. My head is spinning with all the Broadway that I haven't seen or heard. UGH. I can't keep up. I'll definitely watch the Tony ceremonies, but it'll all be NEW to me. 

 

Can you imagine the swarm for tickets?

And the swarm at the stage door?

Ms. Foster will be taking on the mantle

   (and the moat's seaweed)

of Princess Fred, come Spring '25.

2.) It's NOT too darn hot. It's waaaaay too early to start complaining about the heat and the bugs and the weeds. It's embarrassing! After all those months spent complaining about cold? Can't do it. (But it IS rather warm. Like really. I really hate it. Geez.)

3.) I quit the band. Some of you may remember my blithely joining up with the community band out here. Somebody threw me an alto sax and said "You can do it!" and I believed them? I never caught the practice bug, never taught my embouchure to behave, and just basically sucked. So a Quitter am I! UGH. Easier to talk music than make it. (I did learn the Poirot theme song, however. That's something.)

 

4.) All those heroes and villains from last Sunday's 2 On The Aisle has metamorphosed into a Fairy Tale Theme! A Once Upon a Time/Happily Ever After collection, including Shrek, Cinderella, Into The Woods, Mattress...I'll try not to play too many saccharine love songs and Bibbidee Bobbidees, but some WILL appear. Apologies if your teeth start to ache (or your nose starts to grow). What price Broadway, huh?

 

And hey, send me a request or 7! Or toss me theme! I get desperate sometimes, out here sweating in the heat, without a sax, missing the Clooney, and trying to create more wacky 2 On The Aisles for y'all. See ya Sunday. :)

 

 

Once Upon A Time (Maureen McGovern)

Story Of My Life (John Tartaglia, Ensemble, Shrek The Musical)

I Think I Got You Beat (Sutton Foster, Brian d'Arcy James, Shrek The Musical)

What's Up, Duloc? (Christopher Sieber, Ensemble, Shrek The Musical)

The Prince Is Giving A Ball (Ensemble, Cinderella)

Stepsisters' Lament (Brandy Zarle, Jen Bechter, Cinderella)

In My Own Little Corner (Lea Salonga, Cinderella)

A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes (Ilene Woods, Cinderella)

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo (Ensemble, Cinderella)

So This Is Love (Ilene Woods, Mike Douglas, Cinderella)

An Opening For A Princess (Company, Once Upon A Mattress)

Happily Ever After (Carol Burnett, Once Upon A Mattress)

Very Soft Shoes (Matt Mattox, Once Upon A Mattress)

Happily Ever After (Craig Lucas, Marry Me A Little)

Pleasant Little Kingdom (Stephen Sondheim, Sondheim Sings, Vol. 1)

Two Fairy Tales (Craig Lucas, Suzanne Henry, Marry Me A Little)

I've Got No Strings (Dickie Jones, Pinocchio)

Hi-Diddle-Dee-Dee (Walter Catlett, Pinocchio)

Who's Been Sitting In My Chair (Elaine Stritch, Goldilocks)

Be Our Guest (Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury, Ensemble, Beauty And The Beast)

Gaston (Richard White, Jesse Corti, Beauty And The Beast)

On The Steps Of The Palace (Kim Crosby, Into The Woods)

Ever After (Tom Aldredge, Company, Into The Woods)

No One Is Alone (Kim Crosby, Chip Zien, Ensemble, Into The Woods)

Some Day My Prince Will Come (Adriana Caselotti, Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs)

I Built A Fairy Palace In The Sky (Ursula Connors, Chu Chin Chow)

The Queen Of Terre Haute (Peggy Cass, Fifty Million Frenchmen)

Queen Lucy (Reva Rose, Bob Balaban, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown)

Where In The World Is My Prince? (Faith Prince, Miss Spectacular) 

Friend Like Me (Robin Williams, Aladdin) 

Part Of That World (Jodi Benson, Little Mermaid)

I've Got A Dream (Brad Garrett, Jeffrey Tambour, Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Tangled)

Once Upon A Dream (Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Sleeping Beauty)

Once Upon A Dream (Christiane Noll, Jekyll & Hyde)

Once Upon A Time (Ray Bolger, All American)

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)

 

 

 

Playlist For Sunday, May 12, 2024: Send A Dozen Gardenias

I lost my mom in 1995. That's 29 years ago. I can't really believe it's been that long. It's not hard to remember her face. Plenty of photos, of course, to help keep her image in mind...from high school age Gerry, to college (cavorting on a dorm roof?), to the mom I remember (she's always 40 years old in my memory banks, wearing a special black number, her hair bee-hived up...and a big rhinestone broach that I gave her for Christmas). She was 70 when she died. That sort of gives me the shivers, because I'm almost that now. 

 

 

Plus I'm living in her house. I've made a lot of changes, kept only a few items of her's, otherwise it'd be like living WITH her. But her recipe notes linger in the old cookbooks, her silverware in the drawer, her teapot, an evening bag...they're here. How long does DNA live? Cuz that's gotta coat a lot of surfaces, despite the errant Bon Amie and Pledge dustings I deign to do.

Keuka girls will be girls!

(That's Gerry on the left.)

Waxing a bit SAD here, and I shouldn't. You'll stop reading! But my guess is you all have similar connections to your moms, and it's bitter/sweet/sad/happy to think about them now.

 

Julie and a "game" lost to time? And it looks like such fun! :)

 

Sooooo ON A LIGHTER NOTE: We'll celebrate Moms AND May (it's a lusty month!), along with a couple favorite shows of mine (hey, I'm a mother, too!), like Life Begins At 8:40, The Drowsy Chaperone, and Me & My Girl. Plus a few comic "interludes". Gotta have comic interludes. 

 Beth Leavel feeling "Drowsy" and 

Robert Lindsay jumping about that lamp post,

in Me & My Girl.

What a cast! Du Barry starred Red Skelton, Virginia O'Brien,

Gene Kelly...we'll hear Salome (new to me!).

 

So tune in if you have a moment, between enjoying some SPRING and honoring that MOM. "Send a dozen gardenias."

 

 

The Lusty Month Of May (Julie Andrews, Camelot)

Mother's Day (Sami Gayle, Emma Rowley, Gyspy)

Motherhood (Carol Channing, Eileen Brennan, Sondra Lee, Hello, Dolly!)

You Remind Me Of My Mother (James Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy)

My Mother Would Love You (Ethel Merman, Panama Hattie)

You're A Builder Upper (Christopher Fitzgerald, Jessica Stone, Life Begins At 8:40)

Spring Fever (Kate Baldwin, Life Begins At 8:40)

Quartet Erotica (Brad Oscar, Christopher Fitzgerald, Philip Chaffin, Graham Rowat, Life Begins At 8:40)

If Momma Was Married (Tracy Venner, Crista Moore, Gypsy)

A Mother Doesn't Matter Anymore (Tyne Daly, Bye Bye Birdie)

Mother's Day (Sherie Rene Scott, Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown)

Camelot (Richard Burton, Camelot)

The Simple Joys Of Maidenhood (Julie Andrews, Camelot)

C'est Moi (Robert Goulet, Camelot)

As We Stumble Along (Beth Leavel, The Drowsy Chaperone)

I Am Aldolpho (Danny Burstein, Beth Leavel, The Drowsy Chaperone)

Toledo Surprise (Jason and Garth Kravitz, Company, The Drowsy Chaperone)

Can't Stop Talkin' About Him (Audra McDonald)

Another Song About Paris (Dave Frishberg)

Hiding In Plain Sight (Jessica Molaskey, John Pizzarelli, A Kiss To Build A Dream On)

I'm Hip (Blossom Dearie, Blossom Time At Ronnie Scott's)

Peas In A Pod (Christine Ebersole, Erin Davie, Grey Gardens)

My Best Girl (Frankie Michaels, Angela Lansbury, Mame)

Mama, A Rainbow (Daniel Fortas, Shelley Winters, Minnie's Boys)

Momma Look Sharp (Scott Jarvis, William Duell, B.J. Slater, 1776)

Salome (Virginia O'Brien, Du Barry Was A Lady)

Salomee (Ensemble, Hazel Flagg)

Sam And Delilah (Klea Blackhurst, Everything The Traffic Will Allow)

Me And My Girl (Robert Lindsay, Maryann Plunkett, Me And My Girl)

Once You Lose Your Heart (Maryann Plunkett, Me And My Girl)

Leaning On A Lamp Post (Robert Lindsay, Me And My Girl)

Rose's Turn (Ethel Merman, Gypsy) 

 

Playlist For Sunday, May 5, 2024: Star Stuff and Moon Matter

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.

 

Don't know Joe Pera? 

Check out his sleepy-time vids (YouTube, et.al.)

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) 

Playlist For Sunday, April 28, 2024: Only Venn I'm On The Street (where you live)!

As a handful of you may know, I used to be a math tutor. This was long ago and far away, on another planet about 450 miles away. I did it for about 25 years, and given the number of private schools and well-heeled parents (think Mama Rose, aiming Louise at Harvard instead of The Palace), I was able to support a family of four on what that employment provided. 

Growing up, I wasn't such a confident math student...not the one whose hand would immediately pop up with  "47! The answer is 47!" Nope. I might well have had "47" in my mind and on paper, but I had no firm belief in "47" and would NEVER want to embarrass myself if "47" was wrong. That made me a perfect math tutor, actually. Especially with girls. Been there, embarrassed by that...so I propped up those gals' confidence levels, boosted that 13 year old's math-ego, and in general had a swell time doing it.

And I still feel a bit math-y now, even though I retired from it all when I left NYC. Hence my love of all things Venn. :)

 

 

 

I also like diagrams. And charts.

For the best view, click on. Zoom in.

 

I think I need to invent a few Venns of my own. Like a Sondheim vs Schwartz take. I mean they share first names, birthdays, and timely successes...and don't share ME liking both of them. Etc. I can visualize it now...

All that to say, there are no Sondheims or Schwartzes or MATH in this edition. In fact it's all about Streets. Boulevards. Roads. One Highway. And no expressways. Streets of Dreams, Roads to Hell, Avenues of Fifth, Park, and Q: Yes, another wacky (if desperate) theme. Plus birthday salutes to Sheldon (Harnick) and Carol (Burnett). (She'll be 92? Huzzah!)

But tune in...and heads up for a new Broadway Venn (or 7). Guess I've got some charting to do!

Every Street's A Boulevard In Old New York (Jack Whiting, Hazel Flagg)

Wall Street (Tamara Long, Dames At Sea)

Christopher Street (Warren Galjour, Ensemble, Wonderful Town)

Henry Street (Ensemble, Funny Girl)

On The Street Where I Live (Jordan Donica, My Fair Lady)

Street Of Dreams (Peggy Lee, Dream Street)

Easy Street (Elaine Stritch, Stritch)

Easy Street (Dorothy Loudon, Robert Fitch, Barbara Erwin, Annie)

It's Good To Be Back Home (Carol Burnett, Fade Out - Fade In)

Little Girls (Carol Burnett, Annie)

Shy (Carol Burnett, Once Upon A Mattress)

Fifth Avenue (Shirley Temple, Young People)

Confession To A Park Avenue Mother (Charles Nelson Reilly, Parade)

Grant Avenue (Pat Suzuki, Flower Drum Song)

So Long, 174th Street (Robert Morse, So Long, 174th Street)

Don't Forget About 127th Street (Sammy Davis, Jr., Johnny Brown, Golden Boy)

The Streets Of Miami (Allan Sherman, My Son The Folk Singer)

The Avenue Q Theme (Company, Avenue Q)

If You Were Gay (John Tartaglia, Rick Lyon, Avenue Q)

There's A Fine, Fine Line (Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Avenue Q)

Walking Happy (Louise Troy, Norman Wisdom, Walking Happy)

Let's Take An Old Fashioned Walk (Eddie Albert, Allyn McLerie, Miss Liberty

Elegance (Charles Nelson Reilly, Eileen Brennan, Jerry Dodge, Sondra Lee, Hello, Dolly!)

Let's Take A Walk Around The Park (Ella Fitzgerald)

To Life (Zero Mostel, Michael Granger, Fiddler On The Roof)

Ice Cream (Barbara Cook, She Loves Me)

Little Tin Box (Howard DaSilva, Ensemble, Fiorello!)

Highway 57 (Jim Wann, Ensemble, Pump Boys And Dinettes)

Ease On Down The Road (Stephanie Mills, The Wiz)

Road To Hell II (Chris Sullivan, Hadestown)

42nd Street (Wanda Richert, Company, 42nd Street)

Playlist for Sunday, April 21, 2024: Save the Oomph!

I've always loved the opening number of Paint Your Wagon. "Where am I going? I don't know...When will I get there? I ain't certain...All I know is I am on my way." Doesn't that just say it all? We're all careening about, like bumper cars, not a straight line in our progress to be seen, but in this song, those dopey miners seem to feel pretty positive about it. "I'm on my way." Confidence, in the face of Confusion. It'll work out. I'll still get to "the gold".

Clint, Jean, and Lee...this is their hopeful (bathed) look.

Maybe that's why I love Julian Marsh in 42nd Street..."you're going out a youngster, but you're gonna come back a star!" And Ethel/Mamma Rose (the definitive stage mom/monster) with "Everything's Comin' Up Roses". Okay, so you're playing Paducah (on a pole) this week, but next week??? The Palace. Why not?

 

"And you say Allentown?"

Jerry Orbach and Karen Ziemba in 42nd Street

 

 

Mamma Rose sees roses in Sandra Church's future.

I guess Broadway is the ultimate paint on your wagon. Emblazoned in red, hope and passions running high. It's all gonna work out. Stand by and watch. That's the hook. Just wait and watch what happens!

As you can tell, I'm waxing a tad philosophic because it's Jazz90.1's pledge drive, and we have to "make the donuts" (and enough donuts) to last another 6 months. Some folks don't believe we'd fade out and off the airways without a financial injection twice a year, but we would. You are our only support! No big brothers with nasty cigars out there, holding us up. So if you want more Broadway Oomph in your life on a weekly basis (or jazzy drives to work, or bluesy all-nighters, or big band memories to swing with in your kitchen), show us some love. Jump on Jazz901.org...and throw us some moola. 

We only need enough to keep the wagon painted (and hopes high). :) 

 

Lullaby Of Broadway (Jerry Orbach, Wanda Richert, Company, 42nd Street)

Bells Are Ringing (Ensemble, Bells Are Ringing)

On My Own (Syd Chaplin, Bells Are Ringing)

I'm Going Back (Judy Holliday, Bells Are Ringing)

Watch What Happens (Kara Lindsay, Newsies)

Carrying The Banner (The Newsboys, Newsies)

Consider Yourself (Bruce Prochnik, Davy Jones, Ensemble, Oliver!)

As Long As He Needs Me (Georgia Brown, Oliver!)

You've Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two (Clive Revill, Ensemble, Oliver!)

I'm On My Way (Ensemble, Paint Your Wagon)

They Call The Wind Mariah (Rufus Smith, Ensemble, Paint Your Wagon)

Wandrin' Star (Lee Marvin, Ensemble, Paint Your Wagon)

The Yodel Blues (They Talk A Different Language)(Mary Hatcher, Kenny Delmar, Texas, Lil' Darlin')

By The Mississinewah (Ethel Merman, Paula Lawrence, Something For The Boys)

Way Out West (Judy Kaye, Babes In Arms) 

Back On Top (Patti LuPone, War Paint)

Fire And Ice (Eric Liberman, Ensemble, War Paint)

Pink (Christine Ebersole, War Paint)

I Got Rhythm (Ethel Merman, Girl Crazy)

Eadie Was A Lady (Ethel Merman, Girl Crazy)

Everything's Comin' Up Roses (Ethel Merman, Gypsy)

Deep Beneath The City/Not There Yet (Company, In Transit)

Saturday Night Obsession (Erin Mackey, In Transit)

A Little Friendly Advice (Moya Angela, In Transit)

Shuffle Off To Buffalo (Carol Cooke, Joseph Bova, 42nd Street)

A Quarter To Nine (Tammy Grimes, Wanda Richert, 42nd Street)

We're In The Money (Karen Pruczik, Jeri Kansas, Ginny King, Ensemble, 42nd Street)