Sunday, June 21, 2009

June 24: There's No Business Like Show Business

Willkommen - Joel Grey, Cabaret (Sony)
Lullaby of Broadway - Winifred Shaw, Dick Powell, Somewhere Over the Rainbow: The Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals Disc 1 (Rhino / Wea)
Broadway Baby - Debbie Shapiro Gravitte, Gala Concert for Hal Prince Disc 2 (Tristar/First Night Records)
She's No Longer a Gypsy - Bonnie Franklin, Applause (Decca U.S.)
Nothing - Natalie Cortez, A Chorus Line [2006 Broadway Cast] (Sony)
A Summer in Ohio - Sherie René Scott, The Last Five Years (Image)
Show People - Debra Monk, David Hyde Pierce, Cast, Curtains (Manhattan Records)
Welcome to the Theatre - Lauren Bacall, Applause (Decca U.S.)
Opening Night - Company, The Producers [Original Broadway Cast Recording] (Sony Classical)
I Hate Musicals - Rita McKenzie, Ruthless [Los Angeles Cast] (Colosseum)
Life upon the Wicked Stage - Jan Hunter, Show Boat [1971 London Revival Cast] [Highlights] (Delta)
There's No Business Like Show Business [From Annie Get Your Gun] - Bruce Yarnell; Ethel Merman; Jerry Orbach; Rufus Smith, American Musical Theater: Shows, Songs and Stars, Vol. 2 (Smithsonian)
Make 'Em Laugh - Donald O'Conner, Singin' In the Rain (Turner)
I Want to Make Magic - Gavin Creel, Fame [Original Cast Recording] (DRG)
What I Did For Love - Priscilla Lopez & Company, Golden Memories of Stage and Screen #4 (Reader's Digest Music/ Sony Music)

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

June 17: Fathers

You Two - Michael Ball; Carrie Fletcher; George Gillies, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [Original London Cast]
No Matter What - Susan Egan, Tom Bosley, Beauty and the Beast [Original Broadway Cast Recording] [Special Edition]
Woe Is Me - Logainne Schwartzandgrubenierre, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Sh-K-Boom)
Other Pleasures - Kevin Colson, Aspects of Love [Original London Cast] Disc 2 (Polydor)
The First Man You Remember - Kevin Colson, Diana Morrison, Aspects of Love [Original London Cast] Disc 2
Chavaleh song - Alfred Molina, Fiddler on the Roof [2004 Broadway Revival Cast] (PS Classics)
Something Was Missing - Reid Shelton, Annie
Never Say No - Harvey Schmidt, The Fantasticks [2006 Off Broadway Recording]
Fatherhood Blues - James Congdon; Todd Graff; Dennis Warning; Philip Hoffman; Martin Vidnovic, Baby [Original Broadway Cast 1999] (Jay)
Your Daddy's Son - Audra McDonald, Ragtime (RCA Victor Broadway)
Race You to the Top of the Morning - Mandy Patinkin, The Secret Garden [Original Broadway Cast] (Original Cast Record)
Hardest Part of Love - Danny Kosarin; Adrian Zmed; William Solo, Children of Eden (RCA Victor Broadway)
Fathers and Sons - Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Schwartz Album
Fathers of Fathers - Brent Barrett; Patrick Scott Brady; Richard Muenz, Closer Than Ever [Original Cast] Disc 2

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

June 10: Cy Coleman

Hey, Look Me Over! - Lucille Ball; Paula Stewart, Wildcat [Original Cast Recording] (RCA)
I've Got Your Number (Little Me) - Swen Swenson, Broadway Scene Stealers the Men
If My Friends Could See Me Now - Gwen Verdon, Sweet Charity [Original Broadway Cast #1] (Sony Classical)
You're a Lovable Lunatic - Ken Howard, See Saw (Original Cast) [DRG]
Bows: It's Not Where You Start - Company, See Saw (Original Cast) [DRG] (DRG)
Hey There, Good Times - Lenny Baker, Joanna Gleason, lene Graff, James Naughton, I Love My Wife [Orig. Cast] (Disques Swing)
I've Got It All - Madeline Kahn John Cullam, On the Twentieth Century
There's A Sucker Born Every Minute - Jim Dale, Barnum
You're Nothing Without Me - Gregg Edelman, James Naughton, City of Angels [Original Broadway Cast] (Columbia)
Lost and Found - Rachel York, City of Angels [Original Broadway Cast] (Columbia)
You There in the Back Row (13 Days to Broadway) - Liz Callaway, On and off Broadway: The Story Goes On (Varese)
Give a Man Enough Rope - Jason Opsahl; Jerry Mitchell; John Ganun; Keith Carradine; Troy Johnson, The Will Rogers Follies [Original Cast] (Columbia)
A Lovely Day to Be Out of Jail - Pamela Isaacs/Lillias White, The Life [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
It Started With a Dream - Cy Coleman Lillias White, Pamela's First Musical
The Best Is Yet To Come - Cy Coleman, It Started With A Dream
Double-Talk Walk - Gregg Edelman, James Naughton, City of Angels [Original Broadway Cast] (Columbia)

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Tony Awards on Sunday!

One of my favorite television showcases comes on this Sunday night. The Tony Awards, the celebration of Broadway's current season, focuses on musical theater because it's so much easier to perform a song than it is to pull a scene from a play out of context. And that's another story, but since my passion is musical theater songs, I'm in heaven. The website for the Tonys is quite thorough, with clips from the musicals and interviews with nominees. I still need to find time to go through all the stuff at tonyawards.com.

And no, I don't have any favorites or clues on who will win. Between pre-season prep for Spokane Children's Theatre, prep for this show, and my daughter's 6th birthday (oh yeah, our 11th wedding anniversary too) I haven't had a chance to hardly look at the nominees. I'll be even more surprised than you on Sunday. Here in Spokane, the Tony Awards are on channel 2 (KREM-TV) starting at 8 p.m.

June 3: Kander & Ebb

All I Need (Is One Good Break) - Liza Minnelli and Artists, Flora the Red Menace (RCA)
Mein Herr - Natasha Richardson, Cabaret [1998 Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
I Don't Care Much [*] - John Kander, Fred Ebb, Cabaret [Original Broadway Cast] [Bonus Tracks] (Sony)
I Don't Remember You [From the Happy Time] - Ron Raines, So in Love With Broadway (Jay)
Why Can't I Speak - Carmen Alvarez; John Cunningham, Zorba [Angel] (CCT)
70, Girls, 70 - Company, 70, Girls, 70 [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony Classical)
How Lucky Can You Get - Barbra Streisand, Funny Lady
Theme from New York, New York - Fred Ebb, And the World Goes 'Round
All That Jazz - Chita Rivera, Company, Chicago [Original Broadway Cast] (Arista)
Chief Cook and Bottle Washer - Chita Rivera, Rink [Original Broadway Cast] (Jay)
Dear One - Merle Louise, Kirsti Carnahan, Anthony Crivello, Brent Carver, Kiss of the Spider Woman [Original Soundtrack] (First Night)
Sometimes a Day Goes by (Woman of the Year) - Brent Barrett, The Kander and Ebb Album (Varese Sarabande)
I Miss the Music - Jason Danieley, Curtains (EMI Manhattan Records)
Second Chance - Daniel McDonald; Karen Ziémba, Steel Pier [Original Cast] (RCA)
Cabaret - Liza Minnelli, Star Spangled Rhythm [Smithsonian] Disc 4