Wednesday, April 27, 2011

April 27: Friends and Frenemies

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All Our Friends - Harvey Evans, Joel Grey, George M! [Original Cast] (Sony)
Me and My Shadow - Cheyenne Jackson; Michael Feinstein, The Power of Two (Harbinger Records)
I Wan'na Be Like You [From The Jungle Book] - Disney, Buddy Songs ()
Old Friends, Pt. 2 - Malcolm Gets, Michelle Pawk, Merrily We Roll Along [1994 Off-Broadway Revival Cast] (Colosseum)
Together, Wherever We Go - Bernadette Peters; John Dossett; Tammy Blanchard, Gypsy [The New Broadway Cast Recording] (Capitol)
We Go Together - Original London Cast Recording, Grease [1993 London] ()
Let's Be Buddies - Ethel Merman; Joan Carroll, From This Moment On: The Songs of Cole Porter Disc 2 (Smithsonian Collection)
Buddies - Robert & Richard Sherman, Snoopy Come Home ()
You've Got A Friend In Me (Whe - Robert Goulet, Toy Story 2 ()
Ya Got Me (On The Town) - Scott Wise, Michael Kubala, Debbie Shapiro, Mary Ellen Stuart, Jerome Robbins' Broadway Disc 1 (RCA)
What It Means to Be a Friend - Allie Trimm, 13 [Original Cast] (Ghostlight)
Big-Ass Rock - Jason Danieley; John Ellison Conlee; Patrick Wilson, The Full Monty [Original Broadway Cast] ()
Til Him - Matthew Broderick; Nathan Lane, The Producers [Original Broadway Cast Recording] ()
My Buddy/Old Friend - Ann Hampton Callaway, Sibling Revelry ()
Drink With Me - Anthony Warlow, Michael Ball, Les Miserables - Complete Symphonic Recording (Relativity, Red Ink)
For Good - Idina Menzel; Kristin Chenoweth, Wicked ()

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

April 20: Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Buenos Aires - Elaine Paige, Evita [Original London Cast] (MCA International)
King Herod's Song - Rik Mayall, Jesus Christ Superstar [London Revival Cast] (Sony)
The Music of the Night [The Phantom of the Opera] - Michael Crawford, Ultimate Broadway Disc 2 (Arista)
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again - Sarah Brightman, Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber: Broadway (Polydor)
Anything But Lonely - Ann Crumb, Aspects of Love [Original Lond ()
Take That Look Off Your Face - Marti Webb, Tell Me On A Sunday - Original London Cast (Marti Webb) (Polydor)
Don't Cry for Me Argentina [Evita] - Patti LuPone, Ultimate Broadway Disc 2 (Arista)
Jellicle Ball - Orchestra, London Cast Cats
Memory [Cats] - Elaine Paige, Sweet Memories (Music Club Records)
Love Changes Everything - Michael Ball, Aspects of Love [Original London Cast] Disc 1 (Polydor)
I Don't Know How to Love Him [J C Superstar] - Yvonne Elliman, Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber: Broadway (Polydor)
Unexpected Song - Denise Van Outen, Tell Me on a Sunday [2003 London Revival Cast] (Decca Broadway)
As If We Never Said Goodbye [Sunset Boulevard] - Elaine Paige, Sweet Memories (Music Club Records)
Light at the End of the Tunnel - Richard Stilgoe, Starlight Express [Original London Cast] Disc 2 (Hip-O)
Superstar - Ben Vereen, Front Row Center: The Broadway Gold Box, 1935-1988 Disc 4 (Decca)

Last night, after I'd finished making this episode, I got a Facebook quiz - "What shows have you seen live on stage?" It didn't have points for how many times one had seen a particular show live on stage. Cats 4, Phantom 3, JC Superstar 2, Evita 2, Starlight Express 2, etc. Nor was there a place to put that I would attend these shows again only in the interest of a dear loved one. ALW's romanticism and fantasy has a place in the theater world, like rich French food - more than an occasional indulgence makes me feel bloated.

One other confession: I showed my 7 1/2 year old daughter a clip of Cats, to see if she might be interested in seeing it. She sat through the required amount, then turned it down, "They don't look like cats." Looks like she's got a lot in common with her grandmother.

Last week's show coming...

Whoops, that's the problem with vacations - you get all distracted when out of routine. The show was a little shorter than usual so I didn't get it polished up for national use. Or at least I haven't - yet. Hm, still prepping materials for the Spokane Children's Theatre Open House and season brochure, cleaning up after my daughter's Egg party, packing up orders from my online business, you'd think I could squeeze in some Matinee show production.....

Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Apr 6: April In Paris

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Do You Want to See Paris? - Howard McGillin; James Harder; JQ and The Bandits; Karen Ziémba; Kim Criswell; Peggy Cass, Fifty Million Frenchmen (New World)
Only for Americans - Eddie Albert; Ethel Griffies, Miss Liberty (Sony Classical)
Ah Paris - Liliane Montevecchi, Follies (TVT)
Paris Holds the Key (To Your Heart) - Bernadette Peters; Ensemble; Jonathan Dokuchitz, Anastasia [Atlantic] (Atlantic)
Paris Loves Lovers - Don Ameche; Hildegarde Neff, Silk Stockings [Original Broadway Cast] ()
Stranger in Paris - Jeannette MacDonald, The New Moon ()
Paris by Night - Carole Todd, Victor/Victoria [Original Cast] (Decca Broadway)
Paris Stay the Same - Maurice Chevalier, The Love Parade ()
French Lesson - Adolph Green; Betty Comden, Perform Their Own Songs (DRG)
Bidin' My Time (French Reprise) - Jeremy Harrison; Jon Clairmonte; Kieran Mcllroy, Crazy for You [Original London Cast] ()
An American in Paris - George Gershwin, Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls ()
I Love Paris - Lilo, Can-Can [Original Broadway Cast] ()
The Parisians - Betty Wand, Gigi (Turner)
Paris Is a Lonely Town - Kate Baldwin, Let's See What Happens (P.S. Classics)
I Hate the French - Patrick Wilson, Richard Kind, Bright Lights, Big City [Original Cast] ()
Paris Wakes up and Smiles - Johnny V.R. Thompson, Miss Liberty ()
Mélodie de Paris - Glory Crampton/Paul Schoeffler, Phantom ()
Paris Is Paris Again - Alfred Drake, Gigi [Original Cast] (RCA)
The Last Time I Saw Paris - Ann Sothern; MGM Studio Orchestra, Academy Award Winning Music from MGM: 1939-1965 (Turner Records)
You Don't Know Paree - Howard McGillin, Fifty Million Frenchmen (New World)
April in Paris - Dawn Upshaw, Sings Vernon Duke (Nonesuch)