May 8: Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all moms! Remember Mothers Day - Al Jolson, Jolson Jams (Future Noise Music Ltd.)
Mama, a Rainbow - Original Cast, Minnie's Boys (Project 3)
A Little House for Mama [*] - Richard Kind, Bounce [Original Cast] (Nonesuch 79830-2)
I'm Becoming My Mother - Courtenay Day, State of Bliss (LML Music 151)
Mother, Angel, Darling - Debbie Reynolds/Patsy Kelly, Irene - A Musical Comedy (Sony Broadway SK 32266 MP3)
The Apple Doesn't Fall - Chita Rivera; Liza Minelli, Rink [Original Broadway Cast] (Jay Records 1328)
Tina's Mother - Joan Ryan, Ruthless [Los Angeles Cast] (Varese Sarabande VSD 5476)
I'd give my life for you - Joanna Ampil, Miss Saigon [Complete Recording] ( Angel 55564)
What Kind Of Mother? - OOBC, Walmartopia: A Musical On A Mission (Outside the Big Box Productions)
Mother's Day - Snoopy, Snoopy [London] (Jay 1307)
The Portrait [A...My Name Is Alice] - Barbara Walsh, A... My Name Will Always Be Alice (Original Cast Records 9543)
Mother's Day - Sherie Rene Scott, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Ghostlight 84447)
The Story Goes On [Baby] - Susan Egan, So Far... (Jay 1359)
If I Sing - Karen Akers, Unchained Melodies (DRG)
Momma, Momma, Momma - Elliott Gould; Lillian Roth, I Can Get It for You Wholesale [Original Soundtrack] (Sbme Special MKTS.)
They Give Me Love - Shelley Winters, Minnie's Boys (Project 3)
I Don't Know Where She Got It - Lillian Hayman; Robert Hooks, Hallelujah, Baby! (Sony Classical)

May 1: Bing Crosby

True Love [High Society] - Bing Crosby; Grace Kelly, Somewhere Over the Rainbow: The Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals Disc 1 (Rhino / Wea)
So The Bluebirds And The Blackbirds [King of Jazz] - Bing Crosby, Bing Crosby: 1926-1932 (Timeless Records)
Just One More Chance [One More Chance, Road to Hollywood] - Bing Crosby, Bing-His Legendary Years 1931-1957 (Geffen/MCA Records)
Please [The Big Broadcast] - Bing Crosby, Bing Crosby at the Movies (HHO Licensing)
At Your Command [I Surrender Dear] - Bing Crosby, Bing-His Legendary Years 1931-1957 (Geffen/MCA Records) Where The Blue of the Night [The Big Broadcast] - Bing Crosby, Bing Crosby Greatest Hits (ITWHY)
We'll Make Hay While The Sun Shines [Going Hollywood] - Bing Crosby, Going Hollywood (JazzAge)
Moonstruck [College Humor] - Bing Crosby, Bing Crosby In Hollywood (Hallmark)
Blue Skies - Bing Crosby; Danny Kaye, The Ultimate White Christmas (Ideal Music)
Entr'acte - Orchestra, Anything Goes [1989 London Cast] (First Night 6038)
You're The Top - Bing Crosby; Mitzi Gaynor, Anything Goes (Selections from the Cole Porter Musical) (Stage Door) Put It There Pal [Road to Utopia] - Bing Crosby, Bing Crosby Sings Johnny Burke (Ideal Music)
Moonlight Becomes You [Road to Morocco] - Bing Crosby, Bing Crosby Greatest Hits (ITWHY)
Love In Bloom [She Loves Me Not] - Bing Crosby, Academy Award Winners & Nominees (1934-1960) (Geffen/MCA Records)
Evelina - Bing Crosby; Toots Camarata & His Orchestra, Bloomer Girl (Decca 440 013 561-2)
Swingin On A Star - Bing Crosby; The Robert Mitchell Boy Choir, Going My Way (Universal)
Lazy - Bing Crosby; Bob Crosby & His Orchestra, Holiday Inn (Universal Special Products) Busy Doin' Nothing [A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court] - Bing Crosby, Bing Crosby Sings Johnny Burke (Ideal Music)
Moonburn [Anything Goes] - Bing Crosby, Bing Crosby at the Movies (HHO Licensing)
Now You Has Jazz [High Society] - Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, That's Entertainment! [Digital Version]

Apr 24: Somewhere That's Green

Winter's on the Wing - John Cameron Mitchell, The Secret Garden (Original Cast Record)
The Springtime Cometh - Irwin Corey, Flahooley (DRG)
Spring, Spring, Spring - Alan Davies; Charles Parlato; G. Lanham; Howard Keel; M Spergel; Matt Mattox; Robert Wacker; Russ Tamblyn; Tommy Rall, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers [Original Soundtrack] (Rhino)
Let's Sing a Gay Little Spring Song - Chorus, Bambi [Original Soundtrack] [2005 Bonus Tracks] (Walt Disney 60880-7)
Green-Up Time [From Love Life] - Lotte Lenya, Lotte Lenya Sings American & Berlin Theater Songs of Kurt Weill (Sony) Hurry - It's Lovely Here - Karen Mason, Right Here/Right Now (Zevely Records/Traditiosn Aliv)
Wick - Marsha Norman, The Secret Garden [Original Broadway Cast] (Original Cast Record)
Come to My Garden/Lift Me Up - Marsha Norman, The Secret Garden [Original Broadway Cast] (Original Cast Record)
Mountain Greenery - Dawn Upshaw, Sings Rodgers & Hart (Nonesuch)
Appalachian Spring - Blast!, Blast: An Explosive Musical Celebration [Soundtrack] (RCA Victor Broadway) The Lusty Month of May - Julie Andrews, Camelot [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony SK 60542)
June Is Bustin' Out All Over - Katrina Murphy; Meg Johnson, Carousel [1993 London Revival Cast] (RCA Victor)
The Flower Garden of My Heart - Lewis Bolyard, Pal Joey [1952 Broadway Revival Cast] (Angel Records)
The flowers that bloom in the spring - Arthur Sullivan, The Mikado Disc 2 (EMI)
Thousands of Flowers [From I Do! I Do!] - Rita Gardner; Ron Raines, Lost in Boston II Unsung Musicals (Colosseum)
Edelweiss - Theodore Bikel, The Sound of Music [Original Broadway Cast] [Bonus Tracks] (Sony BMG) Somewhere That's Green - Ellen Greene, Little Shop of Horrors [1982 Original Cast Recording] (Geffen)
Make Our Garden Grow - Richard Wilbur, Barbara Cook, Candide [1974 Broadway Revival Cast] Disc 2 (Sony Masterworks Broadway 82876 88391-2)

Apr 10: April In Paris

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)

Apr 3: Dressing Them Up

All I Need Is the Girl - Jeffery Broadhurst, Gypsy [Television Soundtrack] (Atlantic)
Top Hat, White Tie and Tails - Fred Astaire, Johnny Green & Orchestra, Top Hat, White Tie and Tails (The Fred Astaire Story, Vol. 2 (Crates Digger Music Group)
Put On Your Sunday Clothes - Mary Martin, Mark Alden, Garrett Lewis, Johnny Becher, Hello, Dolly! (London 1965) (Masterworks Broadway)
Lovely to Look At [From the 1935 Film Roberta] - Adrienne Angel, An Evening with Dorothy Fields (DRG) Alice Blue Gown - Debbie Reynolds, Irene (Sony Broadway)
Easter Parade - Judy Garland & Fred Astaire; Easter Parade, Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Rhino / Turner Classic Movies)
Ribbons Down My Back - Emily Yancy, Hello, Dolly! [1967 Cast Recording] (RCA)
Second Hand Rose - Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra, Two... (Sony)
Shoes - Malcolm Gets, Lucky Stiff [Off-Broadway Cast] (Jay)
A Shine on Your Shoes - Fred Astaire, Fred Astaire at MGM Disc 2 (Turner/Rhino) A Shine on Your Shoes (instrumental) - Orchestra, Fred Astaire at MGM Disc 2 (Turner/Rhino)
Paris Original - Bonnie Scott; Claudette Sutherland; Mara Landi, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [Original Cast] (RCA)
Miss Celie's Pants - LaChanze, Elisabeth Withers-Mendes, Felicia P. Fields, Cast, The Color Purple [Original Broadway Cast] (Angel)
Expressing Yourself - Original Cast Of Billy Elliot, Billy Elliot [Original London Cast] (Decca Broadway)
Dressing Them Up - Brent Carver, Kiss of the Spider Woman [Original Soundtrack] (First Night) Satin and Silk - Gretchen Wyler, Silk Stockings [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
Pink Taffeta Sample Size 10, song (cut from "Sweet Charity") - Lynne Wintersteller, Lost in Boston, Vol. 3 (Colosseum)
My Strongest Suit - Sherie René Scott, Aida (EMI)
Shine - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra; John Bubbles (Sublett, John W.); The Hall Johnson Choir, Cabin in the Sky [Rhino/Angel]
You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile [Radio Version] - Bobbi Page; Edie Lehmann-Boddicker; Jerry Whitman; Linda Harmon, Annie [Original Television Soundtrack] (Sony SK 89008)

Mar 27: Holy Week

Jesus the Stranger - William Hardy, Clinton Derricks-Carroll, Your Arms Too Short to Box With God (ABC Records)
Hosanna - Frederick Owens; Glen Carter, Jesus Christ Superstar [London Revival Cast] (Sony)
This Jesus Must Die - Bob Bingham, Jesus Christ Superstar [25th Anniversary Reissue] Disc 1 (MCA)
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us? - Shannon Mercer; Rosalind Plowright; William Ferguson; Christopher Purves; BBC Symphony Orchestra&Chorus, Not the Messiah (He's a very naughty boy); A Comic Oratorio by Eric Idle & John Du Prez (Madison Gate Records)
Simon Zealotes/Poor Jerusalem - John Gustafson; Ian Gillan, Jesus Christ Superstar [MCA Original Cast Recording] Disc 1 (Decca)
The Temple - Glenn Carter, Jesus Christ Superstar [London Revival Cast] (Sony)
Alas for You - Stephen Nathan, Godspell [Original Off-Off-Broadway Cast] (Arista)
John Nineteen: Forty One - Orchestra, Jesus Christ Superstar Disc 2 (Verve)
Gethsemane (I only want to say) [Jesus Christ Superstar] - Steve Balsamo, Now & Forever - Disc 1 (Universal)
The Arrest - , Jesus Christ Superstar Disc 2 (Decca)
King Herod's Song - Joshua Mostel, Jesus Christ Superstar [25th Anniversary Reissue] Disc 2 (MCA)
Come On Down - Alex Bradford, Vinnette Carroll, Sheila Ellis, Clinton Derricks-Carrol, Your Arms Too Short to Box With God (ABC Records)
Finale - Hunter Parrish;Uzo Aduba;Nick Blaemire;Celisse Hend - Hunter Parrish; Uzo Aduba; Nick Blaemire; Celisse Henderson; Mor, Godspell [2011 Broadway] (Ghostlight MP3)
Can't No Grave Hold My Body Down - Clinton Derricks-Carrol, Your Arms Too Short to Box With God (ABC Records)

Mar 20: Anything You Can Do...

A re-airing of one of my favorite episodes, pitting one sex against another

Mar 13: West Side Story

Something's Coming [West Side Story] - Company, Sondheim on Sondheim [Original Broadway Cast] Disc 1 (P.S. Classics)
Maria - Larry Kert, West Side Story [OBC] (Columbia CK 32603)
Jet Song - Jets Cast; Nicholas Warnford; Orchestra, West Side Story [Leicester Cast] (Curtain Call) Cool - Kurt Ollmann, West Side Story [Deutsche Grammophon Highlights] (Deutsche Grammophon)
Tonight - Betsi Morrison; Mike Eldred, West Side Story [2002 Nashville] (Naxos American)
One Hand, One Heart - Richard Muenz, Dawn Upshaw, Leonard Bernstein's New York (Nonesuch)
Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story": Mambo: Presto - Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Somewhere - The Leonard Bernstein Album (1993) ()
Gee Officer Krupke - Schlong, Punk Side Story (Hopeless Records, Inc.) Gee, Officer Krupke! - Def Jef; Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes; Paul Rodriguez; Salt-N-Pepa; The Jerky Boys, The Songs of West Side Story (RCA)
America [West Side Story] - Charlotte d'Amboise, Debbie Shapiro, Women, Jerome Robbins' Broadway (RCA)
I Feel Pretty - Carol Lawrence, West Side Story [OBC] (Columbia CK 32603)
Tonight Quintet - Jim Bryant; Marni Nixon; Rita Moreno, West Side Story [Expanded Original Soundtrack] (Sony Classical/Legacy)
A Boy Like That - Chita Rivera; Carol Lawrence, West Side Story [OBC] (Columbia CK 32603) I Have A Love - Maria Kesselman, The West Side Story Collection (X5 Music Group)
Somewhere - Audra McDonald, How Glory Goes (Elektra/Asylum)
Finale - Josefina Scaglione; Matt Cavenaugh; Company, West Side Story [2008 Broadway] (Sony Masterworks Broadway)

Coming up on the Broadway Matinee...

May 8, 2013
Mama, A Rainbow
Mothers in Musicals

May 15, 2013
Pre-empted for Musicfest Northwest

May 22, 2013
Harold Rome

May 29, 2013
Happily Ever After
Another visit with fairy tales on stage and screen

June 5, 2013
Mark Twain Musicals
Big River, the Apple Tree, and Connecticut Yankee are only a few of the musicals taken from Mark Twain's writings

June 12, 2013
Fathers of Fathers
Great songs about great dads


June 19, 2013
Gone Sailing
So many songs in the theater evoke the image of water and ships


June 26, 2013
Disney on Broadway
Disney didn't invent the movical, but certainly solidified its place on Broadway


July 3, 2013
Freedom and the Flag
Songs mainly about American freedom

July 10, 2013
Marry Me A Little
The state of marriage, blissful and otherwise

July 17, 2013
In a Very Unusual Way
Love takes many forms in stage songs

July 24, 2013
Driving Melodies
Stage songs taking place in an automobile

July 31, 2013
Jones & Schmidt
Music from the creators of The Fantasticks and 110 In The Shade

August 7, 2013
Cole Porter
A collection of fun songs from the genius lyricist and composer Cole Porter.

August 14, 2013
Working
Laborious songs, including from the Stephen Schwartz musical Working

August 21, 2013
Baby Mine
From conception through toddlerhood, babies are a subject of several theatre songs


August 28, 2013
Dancing

Mar 6: Stephen Schwartz

We Beseech Thee - Cast, Godspell [2001 National Touring Cast Recording] (DRG)
Simple Song - Barbara Cook, It's Better With A Band
Corner Of The Sky - John Rubinstein, Pippin OBC
It's an Art - Original Cast, Working [Original Cast Recording] (Varese Sarabande)
Lion Tamer [From the Magic Show] - Kristin Chenoweth, The Stephen Schwartz Album (Varèse Sarabande)
Where Is the Warmth? - Patti LuPone, The Baker's Wife [Original Cast Recording] (Original Cast Record)
In Whatever Time We Have - Darius de Haas; Kelli Rabke, Children of Eden [Original Cast Highlights] (RCA Records)
Defying Gravity - Idina Menzel; Kristin Chenoweth, Wicked (Decca)
Colors of the Wind [From Pocahontas] - Judy Kuhn, Classic Disney, Vol. 3 (Disney International)
The Bells of Notre Dame - Cast, On the Record Disc 2
God Help the Outcasts [From The Hunchback of Notre Dame] - Heidi Mollenhauer, Classic Disney, Vol. 5
Deliver Us/River Lullaby - Eden Riegel; Ofra Haza, Prince of Egypt
Just Because It's Magic - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Drew Carey, Geppetto
That's How You Know (As Used in the Film Enchanted) - Amy Adams, Enchanted [Original Soundtrack] (EMI Music Distribution)
On the Wings of a Swan - Kristoffer Cusick, Lost
From May 18, 2011

Feb 27: William Finn

You're Even Better Than You Think You Are [Live] - Cast, Make Me a Song, the Music of William Finn [Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording] Disc 1 (Ghostlight)
Stupid Things I Won't Do - William Finn, Infinite Joy: The Songs of William Finn (RCA)
Gordo's Law of Genetics - John Jellison; Keith Byron Kirk; Kristin Chenoweth; Liz Larsen; Mary Testa; Michael Mandell, A New Brain (RCA Victor Records)
I Have Found [Live] - Cast, Make Me a Song, the Music of William Finn [Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording] Disc 1 (Ghostlight)
Infinite Joy - Betty Buckley, Elegies: A Song Cycle (Varese)
Change - Cast, Make Me a Song, the Music of William Finn [Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording] Disc 1 (Ghostlight)
I Speak Six Languages - Deborah S. Craig, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Sh-K-Boom)
Pandemonium - Company/Jose Llana, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Sh-K-Boom)
Prayer of the Comfort Counselor - Derrick Baskin, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Sh-K-Boom)
Mister, Make Me a Song - William Finn, Infinite Joy: The Songs of William Finn (RCA)
Love Me For Who I Am - Alison Fraser, In Trousers [Original Cast Recording] (Original Cast Record)
Tight-Knit Family - Cast, March of the Falsettos [Original Cast] (DRG)
Unlikely Lovers - Michael Rupert, Stephen Bogardus, Janet Metz, Heather MacRae, Falsettoland [Original Off-Broadway Cast] (DRG)
The Music Still Plays On - Penny Fuller, A New Brain (RCA Victor Records)
Anytime (I Am There) - Carolee Carmello, Elegies: A Song Cycle (Varese)
Heart and Music - John Jellison; Keith Byron Kirk; Kristin Chenoweth; Liz Larsen; Malcolm Gets; Mary Testa; Michael Mandell; Pe Fuller, A New Brain (RCA Victor Records)
From Feb 2, 2011

Feb 20: A Fine Romance

A Fine Romance [Swing Time] - Ginger Rogers; Fred Astaire, Ginger & Fred at RKO (2 of 2) (Rhino)
Let's Call The Whole Thing Off [Shall We Dance] - Fred Astaire, The Great American Songbook (Columbia/Legacy)
How Could You Believe Me? [Royal Wedding] - Mandy Patinkin; Kristin Chenoweth, Kidults (Nonesuch)
What You Don't Know About Women [City Of Angels] - Emily Skinner, Alice Ripley, Unsuspecting Hearts (Varese Sarabande)
You Could Drive a Person Crazy - Elizabeth Stanley, Kelly Jeanne Grant, Angel Desai, Company (Revival) (Nonesuch) I Think I Got You Beat - Sutton Foster; Brian d'Arcy James, Shrek: The Musical (Decca)
Hate Me, Please - Angela Richards & Jeremy Lloyd, Robert and Elizabeth (Angel Records)
Outside Of That I Love You - Cast, Louisiana Purchase (DRG)
Show Me - John Michael King; Julie Andrews, My Fair Lady [OBC] [2002 Bonus Tracks] (Sony SMK 89997)
Double Talk Walk - Orchestra, City of Angels [Original Broadway Cast] (Columbia) The More You Ruv Someone - Ann Harada; Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Avenue Q ( RCA Victor 82876-55923-2RE1)
Oh, Happy We - Barbara Cook; Robert Rounseville, Candide [Columbia Bonus Tracks] (Sony SK 86859)
An Old Fashioned Wedding - Thomas Hampson, Kim Criswell, Annie Get Your Gun [1991 Studio Cast] ( Angel CDC 7 54206-2)
Cherry Pies Ought to Be You - Andrea Martin; Ernie Sabella; La Chanze; Peter Scolari, Out of This World (DRG)
Nobody's Perfect - David Garrison; Karen Ziémba, I Do I Do [1996 Cast] (Varese Sarabande) I Wanted to Change Him - Leslie Uggams, Hallelujah, Baby! (Sony Classical)
I Am the One - J. Robert Spencer; Aaron Tveit; Alice Ripley, Next To Normal [Original Broadway Cast Recording] Disc 1 (Ghostlight)
Take Me or Leave Me - Idina Menzel, Rent [Original Soundtrack] Disc 2 (Warner Bros.)
I Can Do Without You - Doris Day; Howard Keel, Calamity Jane (Sony International)

Feb 13: So In Love

My idea Valentine's date is going to a live theater show. Of course, that's my ideal date any day. Here's wishing you happiness with someone special!

Some Enchanted Evening - Bryn Terfel, Something Wonderful: Bryn Terfel Sings Rodgers & Hammerstein (Polygram)
Sunrise - Mandy Gonzalez, Christopher Jackson, Company, In the Heights (Ghostlight 84428)
I Have a Love [From West Side Story] - Andréa Burns, A Deeper Shade of Red (PS Classics)
All the Things You Are (Very Warm for May) - Rebecca Luker, George Dvorsky, Jeanne Lehman, Cris Groenendaal, Broadway Showstoppers ()
So Many People - Anna Francolini; Sam Newman, Saturday Night [Original New York Cast Recording] (Nonesuch) I Could Write a Book - Peter Gallagher, Pal Joey [1995 Encores] (DRG)
I Love My Wife It Amazes Me - Cy Coleman
Can You Feel the Love Tonight - aerial ballet - Orchestra, The Lion King [Original Broadway Cast] (Walt Disney 861541)
If Ever I Would Leave You - Robert Goulet, Camelot [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony SK 60542)
Something Good - Rebecca Luker; Michael Siberry, Broadway in Love (RCA) I Got Lost in His Arms - Mary Martin, Annie Get Your Gun [1957 TV Mary Martin John Raitt] (Angel ZDM 0777 7 64765 2 0)
Song on the Sand (La da da Da) - Gene Barry, La Cage aux Folles [Original Cast] (RCA)
What More Can I Say - Michael Rupert, Falsettoland [Original Off-Broadway Cast] (DRG)
You Walk With Me - Jason Danieley; Romain Fruge, The Full Monty (RCA)
Once in Love With Amy [Where's Charley] - Ray Bolger, American Musical Theatre: Shows, Songs and Stars, Vol. 3 (Smithsonian) So in Love (Reprise) - Alfred Drake, Kiss Me, Kate [Original Broadway Cast] (Columbia/Legacy)

Feb 6: Lebo M

A reprise of the great music of African vocal arranger and composer Lebo M



Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Grasslands Chant (Busa) - Lebo M., The Lion King [Original Broadway Cast] (Disney) The Lioness Hunt - Lebo M., The Lion King [Original Broadway Cast] (Disney) Song for the Children - Lebo M., Lion King, Vol. 1 & 2 Disc 2 (Festival) Lala (precursor to Endless Night) - Lebo M, Rhythm of the Pride Lands (Disney) Shadowland - Heather Headley/Tsidi Leloka, The Lion King [Original Broadway Cast] (Disney) Noyana - Lebo M, Rhythm of the Pride Lands (Disney) Mother Africa [Power of One] - Lebo M, Zimmer, H.: The Wings of a Film (Decca) Spirit Of Africa - Chorus, Congo (Sony) Windsong - Chorus, Mighty Joe Young (Hollywood Records) Back to the Species - Lebo M, Born to be Wild The Lion Sleeps Tonight - Lebo M., Lion King 1 1/2 (Disney) One By One - Lebo M The Circle of Life - Carmen Twillie, Lebo M, The Lion King (Walt Disney)

Jan 30: What a Wonderful Way To Die

Not trying to be morbid or depressing, some of these songs are just lovely or passionate. I chose this theme in anticipation of Lake City's Sweeney Todd and Civic's Next to Normal. I've also started stage managing Civic's production of On Golden Pond, which also faces issues of aging and Alzheimers (although when it was written, we didn't recognize the signs of Alzheimers). Theater continues to put perspective on life's issues.

Life's a Funny Proposition, After All [Little Johnny Jones] - George M Cohan, American Musical Theatre: Shows, Songs and Stars, Vol. 1 (Smithsonian)
Is Life A Boon - , Hansel and Gretel [NBC Television Musical Spectacular] (Sepia Records)
The Elephant Song - Goldye Shaw; Lillian Hayman; Mildred Natwick, 70, Girls, 70 [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony Classical)
There's a World - Aaron Tveit, Next To Normal [Original Broadway Cast Recording] Disc 1 (Ghostlight)
A Snake in the Grass - Bob Fosse, The Little Prince [Original Soundtrack] (Decca) You Gotta Die Sometime Radio Edit - Stephen Bogardus, Falsettoland [Original Off-Broadway Cast] (DRG)
Will I - Jonathan Larson, Rent [Original Soundtrack] Disc 1 (Warner Bros.)
Goodbye - Keith Byron Kirk, Elegies: A Song Cycle (Varese Sarabande)
Wonderful Way To Die (The Bone Room) - Soundtrack; cast Album, The Show Goes On - Jones & Schmidt (DRG)
What A Comforting Thing To Know - The Sherman Brothers, The Slipper and the Rose (Image Entertainment)
Overture - Orchestra, The Addams Family (Decca Broadway B0014280-02)
Cell Block Tango - Bebe Neuwirth, Denise Fay, Maime Duncan-Gibbs, Mary Ann Lamb, Tina Paul, Caitlin Carter, Chicago [RCA] (RCA)
Epiphany - Angela Lansbury; Len Cariou, A Collector's Sondheim Disc 3 (RCA Victor Broadway)
Dancing on Your Grave - Andy Jobe; Bill Nolte; Christopher Sieber; Darcy Pulliam; Ken McMullen; Lind Jobe; Michael X. Martin; Theara J. Ward, A Christmas Carol [Original Cast] (Sony)
The Gospel According to Shrdlu - Joe Farrell, Adding Machine ()
The Highest Judge of All - John Raitt, Carousel [1965 Broadway Revival Cast] (RCA) Epilogue (Finale) - Gary Morris, Les Miserables - Complete Symphonic Recording (Red Ink)
Fear No More - Michael Siberry, The Frogs [Original Broadway Cast] (PS Classics)
Flying Home [Songs for a New World] - Lauren Kennedy, Songs of Jason Robert Brown (PS Classics)

Phantom of the Opera

It's been 25 years since Phantom of the Opera opened on Broadway. Here are some recordings you might not know about...



Think Of Me - Rebecca Caine, Phantom Of The Opera [1989 Original Canadian Cast] (Verve)
Angel of Music - Emmy Rossum; Jennifer Ellison, Phantom Of The Opera [2004 soundtrack] (Sony)
The Phantom of the Opera - Dale Kristien; Michael Crawford, In Concert (First Night)
Dialogue: Phantom - Michael Crawford, In Concert (First Night)
The Music Of The Night - Michael Crawford, Highlights From The Phantom Of The Opera: The Original Cast Recording (Verve)
Quello che tacete - Placido Domingo, Puccini: La Fanciulla del West (DG Imports)
Echoes - Pink Floyd, Meddle (Capitol Records) Poor Unfortunate Souls - Pat Carroll, The Little Mermaid [Original Soundtrack] (Disney)
The Dress Rehearsal Of Hannibal - Canadian Cast, Phantom Of The Opera [1989 Original Canadian Cast] (Verve)
Poor Fool, He Makes Me Laugh - Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Phantom Of The Opera At The Royal Albert Hall (Decca Broadway)
Masquerade - Orchestra, ()
Overture - Andrew Lloyd Webber, Phantom of the Opera (Uptown/Universal)
Masquerade - Patrick Wilson/Emmy Rossum/Gerard Butler, Phantom Of The Opera [2004 soundtrack] (Sony)
All I Ask of You [Phantom of the Opera] - John Barrowman, Claire Moore, Greatest Love Songs From Musicals (MCI Musicals) I Gave You My Music - Colm Wilkinson, Phantom Of The Opera [1989 Original Canadian Cast] (Verve)
Twisted Every Way - Sierra Boggess, The Phantom Of The Opera At The Royal Albert Hall (Decca Broadway)
Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again [Phantom of the Opera] - Sarah Brightman, Surrender: The Unexpected Songs (Polydor)
The Point of No Return - Kira Bronte; Michael Heath, Phantom of the Opera [1996 Studio] (Big Eye Music)
Masquerade reprise - Michael Crawford, Phantom of the Opera (Uptown/Universal)

Depression

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