Matinee - Songs from the Stage and Screen

Jan 25: Disney On Broadway

2012-01-25T09:43:00.001-08:00

Playlist coming soon

Repost: For King and Mandela

2012-01-15T11:42:00.000-08:00

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr day, a reposting of last year's episode of Black musicals, and musical theater tributes to MLK and Nelson Mandela.

The Slice - Alan Weeks; Clifford Allen; Garrett Morris; Ken Scott; Leslie Uggams; Robert Hooks, Hallelujah, Baby! (Sony Classical)
That's Not The Way We Do Things - Original Off-Broadway Cast, The Scottsboro Boys (Jay Records)
The Lynching Blues - Ann Duquesnay/Baakari Wilder/Jeffrey Wright, Bring in 'da Noise Bring in 'da Funk (RCA Victor Broadway)
Nelson Mandela and Water Dance (Omm Ohh Ho la la (Reprise) - GumBoots, Gum Boots (RCA)
Stand and Fight - Mbongeni Ngema, Sarafina! [Original Cast Recording] (RCA)
One by One - Cast, The Lion King [Original Broadway Cast] (Disney)
African Homeland - Renee Elise Goldberry, LaChanze, Cast, The Color Purple [Original Broadway Cast] (Angel)
Som'thin' from Nuthin'/Circle Stomp - Ann Duquesnay/Jeffrey Wright, Bring in 'da Noise Bring in 'da Funk (RCA Victor Broadway)
till We Reach That Day - Mary Bond Davis; Brian Stokes Mitchell, Ragtime [Original Cast Recording - RCA] (BMG)
I Know Where I've Been - Queen Latifah, Hairspray [2007 Soundtrack] (Universal Classics)
Mr. Stopnick and Emmie - Anika Noni Rose, Tonya Pinkins, Caroline, or Change (Original Broadway Cast) Disc 2 (Hollywood Records)
Kitchen Fight - Anika Noni Rose, Tonya Pinkins, Caroline, or Change (Original Broadway Cast) Disc 2 (Hollywood Records)
Down Home - Cleavon Little; Joyce Brown; Novella Nelson, Purlie (RCA Victor Broadway)
Prelude - Riot At Edmund Pettus Bridge - Ensemble, King (Polygram Records)
How Long, Not Long - Simon Estes, Edmund Hockridge, Ensemble, King (Universal International)

Jan 18: Rock Musicals

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Going on vacation so I'm posting several programs early. Enjoy!

Jan. 11: Jazz Restaged

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The Joint Is Jumpin' - Eugene Barry-Hill; Michael-Leon Wooley; The Pointer Sisters, Ain't Misbehavin' (The New Cast Recording) (RCA)
Let the Good Times Roll - Rodrick Dixon, Thomas Young, Victor Trent Cook, Three Mo' Tenors (RCA Victor Records)
Hit Me With a Hot Note (And Watch Me Bounce) - Carl Anderson; Cheryl Freeman; Duke's Band, Play On [Original Broadway Cast] (Varese)
It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - De Shields, Andre; Larry Marshall; Lawrence Hamilton; Yvette Cason, Play On [Original Broadway Cast] (Varese)
Bli-Blip - Ann Hampton Callaway; Everett Bradley, Swing [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
Strollin'/Well Alright Then - Queen Esther, George C. Wolfe's Harlem Song (Original Apollo Theater Cast Recording) (Sony Music Distribution)
That's How You Jazz - Crowd; Gregory Hines; Stanley Wayne Mathis, Jelly's Last Jam (Mercury)
Medley: Hurry Home/I Know What I've Got/Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby - Original Broadway Cast Recording, Five Guys Named Moe OBC (Sony Music Entertainment Inc.)
Black and Tan Fantasy - Duke Ellington, Black & Blue [Original Broadway Cast] ()
There Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens - Clarke Peters; Newton, Peter Alex, Five Guys Named Moe [Original London Cast] (First Night)
Bessie Smith Blues - Bertrice Reading, The Jazz Train [Bonus Tracks] (Sepia Recordings)
I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues - Carrie Smith, Black & Blue [Original Broadway Cast] (DRG)
St. Louis Blues - Gretha Boston, It Ain't Nothin But the Blues (MCA)
Black and Blue - Musical Cast Recording, Ain't Misbehavin' OBC (BMG Music)
Sweet Georgia Brown - Vivian Reed, Bubbling Brown Sugar ()
Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do - Eugene Barry-Hill; Michael-Leon Wooley; The Pointer Sisters, Ain't Misbehavin' (The New Cast Recording) (RCA Victor Broadway)
Sweet Home Chicago - Buddy Guy; C.E. Smith; Greg Porter, It Ain't Nothin But the Blues (MCA)
Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - Company; Paul J. Medford, Five Guys Named Moe [Original London Cast] (First Night)

Jan 4: Winter/Spring Preview for Spo & Cd'A

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Along with the previews of 9 shows to be performed in our area, a little discussion of the blend of art and entertainment.

Some links to the Rent discussion in the Coeur d'Alene Press

Dec 27: Drink!

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Drinking Song - Mario Lanza, At His Best
Drinking Song [The Student Prince] - Jerry Hadley, Golden Days (RCA Victor)
Drink [Seven Lively Arts] - Thomas Hampson, Cole Porter: Night and Day (EMI)
Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please - Mary Jo Catlett, Cole Porter: A Musical Toast Disc 1 (Varèse Sarabande)
Well Did You Evah - Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, High Society [film] (Rhino)
Say It With Gin - John McMartin, High Society [Original Broadway Cast]
Let's Have a Drink On It - Tommy Steele, John Davidson, The Happiest Millionaire [Original Cast Soundtrack Album] (Disney)
Skumps (Drinking Song) - George Bruns, Sleeping Beauty [Original Soundtrack]
The Nuttycracker Suite - Allen Won/Dan Willis/Lawrence Feldman/Lawrence Goldberg/Lawrence Yurman/Mark Johnson/Michael Rafter/Walt Weiskopf, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Original Broadway Cast)
Drink with Me - Cast, Les Miserables [Original Broadway Cast] Disc 2 (Geffen/Decca US)
To Life - Men; Michael Granger; Ross Gifford; Zero Mostel, Fiddler on the Roof OBC
We'll Take a Glass Together - Brent Barrett, Michael Jeter, Grand Hotel, The Musical (RCA)
I Was Made For Champagne - Randall Edwards; Tropicana Dan, Legs Diamond
Champagne Charlie - Derek B. Scott,
The Night They Invented Champagne - Daniel Massey/Karin Wolfe/Maria Karnilova, Gigi [Original Cast] (RCA)
Gin/Wild - Mandy Patinkin, The Wild Party [LaChiusa] [Broadway] (Universal)
Belly up to the Bar, Boys - Joseph Sirola; Tammy Grimes, The Unsinkable Molly Brown [Original Broadway Cast]
Cocktails For Two - Spike Jones, The Wacky World Of Spike Jones & His City Slickers

Dec. 21: The Man with the Bag

2011-12-21T22:11:00.000-08:00

Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town - Fred Astaire, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (Rhino / Wea)
The Man With the Bag (Everybody's Waitin' For) - Rockettes, Radio City Christmas Spectacular (Sony)
Jingle Jingle Jingle - Stan Francis, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Finale) - Burl Ives, Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (MCA Special Projects)
Abundance and Charity - Michael Mandell; Walter Charles, A Christmas Carol [Original Cast] (Sony)
Third Letter - Rockettes, Radio City Christmas Spectacular
Reindeer Boogie/Jingle Bells - Roger Bart, Maria Cominis, Danny Gurwin, Sally Wilfert, A Christmas Survival Guide (Original Cast Record)
I Guess There Ain't No Santa Claus - Marcus Neville, Maria Cominis, Danny Gurwin, Sally Wilfert, A Christmas Survival Guide (Original Cast Record)
Nobody Cares About Santa - Original Cast, Elf - The Musical
Be a Santa [From Subways Are for Sleeping] - Guy Haines; Michelle Nicastro, Broadway Christmas (MCA Special Products/Varese Sarabande)
We Need a Little Christmas - Orchestra, Radio City Christmas Spectacular
Too Fat To Fit (from Pete 'n' Keely) - Cast of The Producers, Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Car (Rock-It Science)
Santa Baby (New Faces) - Eartha Kitt, The Best Christmas Ever (Virgin Records Us)
I'd Like To Hitch A Ride With Santa Claus/Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town - Sally Mayes, A Christmas Survival Guide (Original Cast Record)
Surabaya-Santa - Jessica Molaskey, Songs for a New World (RCA Victor Broadway)
Mrs. Santa Claus (From 'Mrs. Santa Claus') - Angela Lansbury, Mrs. Santa Claus
Swing, Mister Santa Claus, Swing - Cast of The Music Man, Carols For A Cure 2 2000 (Rock-It Science)
Yes, There is a Santa Claus - Betty Madigan, The Stingiest Man in Town
That Man over there - Cast, Here's Love (Sony)
Who Says There Ain't No Santa Claus? - Barbara Cook; Jerome Courtland; Personnel; The Executives, Flahooley (DRG)

Dec. 14: Carols for a Cure 2011

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A Christmas Carol - Cast of How to Succeed in Business without really trying, Carols for a Cure 13 2011 (Rock-It Science)
Deck The Halls - Cast of Avenue Q, Carols for a Cure 13 2011 (Rock-It Science)
The Holiday Hop (It's a Wonderful Life musical) - Cast of 42nd Street, Carols for a Cure 5 2003 (Rock-It Science)
The Twelve Days Of Phanthom - Cast of Phantom of the Opera with Howard McGillin, Carols For A Cure 1 1999 (Rock-It Science)
I Wonder as I Wander - Cast of Phantom, Carols for a Cure 13 2011 (Rock-It Science)
Away In A Manger - Cast of Ragtime, Carols For A Cure 1 1999 (Rock-It Science)
What Child Is This? - Cast of Chicago, Carols for a Cure 13 2011(Rock-It Science)
Good King Wenceslas - Cast of Sound of Music, Carols for a Cure 10 2008 (Rock-It Science)
Angels We Have Heard on High - Cast of Sister Act, Carols for a Cure 13 2011(Rock-It Science)
When the River Meets the Sea - Cast of Wicked, Carols for a Cure 13 2011 (Rock-It Science)
I Saw Three Ships - Cast of Miss Saigon, Carols For A Cure 1 1999 (Rock-It Science)
The Wexford Carol - Cast of Riverdance, Carols For A Cure 2 2000 (Rock-It Science)
The Rocking Carol - Cast of Mary Poppins, Carols for a Cure 13 2011 (Rock-It Science)
ABBA on German Radio - Cast of Mamma Mia, Carols for a Cure 13 2011 (Rock-It Science)
Go Tell It On The Mountain - Cast of Mamma Mia, Carols For A Cure 4 2002 (Rock-It Science)
Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming/Still, Still, Still/Bring A Torch, Jeanette Isabel - Cast of The Producers, Carols For A Cure 4 2002 (Rock-It Science)
O Holy Night - Daniel Rodriquez, Carols for a Cure 13 2011(Rock-It Science)

Dec. 7: A Christmas Carol

2011-12-21T21:53:00.001-08:00

A Christmas Carol - Company, Scrooge [Original Cast Recording] ()
Nothing to Do With Me - Ken Jennings; Ken McMullen; Robert Ousley; Robert Westernberg; Toney, Andrea Fri; Van Treuren, Martin; Walter Willison, A Christmas Carol [Original Cast] ()
Make the Most of This World - Harry Dickman; Ian Caddick; John Clay; Jon Pertwee; Stuart Cross, Scrooge [Original Cast Recording] ()
Lights of Long Ago - Cast, A Christmas Carol [2004 TV Cast] ()
A Place Called Home (Scrooge at 10) - , A Christmas Carol [2004 TV Cast] ()
Golden Dreams / It Might Have Been - Vic Damone & Patrice Munsel, The Stingiest Man in Town (Jasmine Records)
Good King Wenceslas - Orchestra, Muppet Christmas Carol ()
Drink It In edit - Cast, Christmas Carol (Robinson) ()
Christmas Together - Betsy Chang; David Gallagher; Mary Elizabeth Albano; Matthew Mezzacappa; Michael Mandell; Nick Corley; Walter Charles, A Christmas Carol [Original Cast] ()
One Little Boy - Basil Rathbone & Robert Wright, The Stingiest Man in Town (Jasmine Records)
It's Not My Fault (Reprise) - Anthony Newley, Scrooge [Original Cast Recording] (Jay)
Dancing on Your Grave - Kelsey Grammer, A Christmas Carol [2004 TV Cast] ()
Just Desserts - Cast, Christmas Carol (Robinson) ()
The Man Is Mad - Cast, Christmas Carol (Robinson) ()
A Christmas Carol - The Four Lads, The Stingiest Man in Town (Jasmine Records)

Nov. 30: Money Money Money

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Nov. 16: Gilbert & Sullivan

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Nov 2: Cy Coleman

2011-11-01T23:15:00.000-07:00

For some reason, the player shows "0:00" time until you actually hit play. Try it and it should work. (grumble grumble "technology" grumble...)

Playlist coming once I figure out what bug has infected my Word program. (grumble grumble expletive "technology" grumble...)

Oct 26: Happy Halloween

2011-10-28T23:02:00.001-07:00

Since this week's Matinee show was a Pledge Drive special, this is an as-yet-unaired episode of the Matinee especially for Halloween.
The guys who did Silence! The Musical version of Silence of the Lambs also have some funky music videos: The Thing and Fright Night.

Oct 19: I Gotta Crow!

2011-10-19T12:17:00.000-07:00

C'Est Moi - Robert Goulet, Camelot [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
Man of la Mancha (I, Don Quixote) - Brian Stokes Mitchell; Ernie Sabella, Man of La Mancha [2002 Broadway Revival Cast] (RCA Victor Group)
Buenos Aires - Elaine Paige, Evita [Original London Cast] ()
Proud Lady - Kurt Peterson, The Baker's Wife [Original Cast Recording] (Take Home Tunes)
Bring Me My Bride - Cris Grienendaal, Nathan Lane, Cast, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum [Angel] (Angel)
Me - Burke Moses, Susan Egan, Beauty and the Beast [Original Broadway Cast Recording] [Special Edition] (Universal)
Perfect Isn't Easy (Oliver & Company) - Bette Midler, The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song Disc 2 (Disney)
(The Legend Of) Miss Baltimore Crabs - Clarke Thorell; Danelle Eugenia Wilson; Hollie Howard; Kerry Butler; Linda Hart; Marissa Jaret Winokur; Smith, Peter Matthew, Hairspray [Original Cast] (Sony Classical)
Popular - Kristin Chenoweth, Wicked (Decca)
Tra-La-La [Outtake] - MGM Studio Orchestra, An American in Paris [Rhino] Disc 2 ()
I've Gotta Crow - Mary Martin, American Musical Theatre: Shows, Songs and Stars, Vol. 3 ()
Practically Perfect - Cast, Mary Poppins [Original London Cast] (Walt Disney)
Life Is Happiness Indeed - Lewis J. Stadlen; Mark Baker; Maureen Brennan; Sam Freed; St. Darr, Deborah, Candide [1974 Broadway Revival Cast] Disc 1 ()
Why? 'Cause I'm a Guy - Danny Burstein; Robert Roznowski, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (Varese Sarabande)
Wonderful - Joel Grey, Idina Menzel, Wicked ()
Some People - Patti LuPone, Gypsy [2008 Broadway Revival Cast]Disc 1 (Time Life)
I Invented Myself - Robert Preston, Ben Franklin in Paris ()
Springtime for Hitler - John Barrowman, Gary Beach, The Producers [2005 Soundtrack (Sony)

Oct 12: Baby Mine

2011-10-19T12:15:00.000-07:00

Me and My Baby - Ann Reinking, James Naughton, Chicago [RCA] (RCA)
The Story Goes On - Liz Callaway, Baby [Original Broadway Cast 1999] (Jay)
Baby Moon - Audra McDonald, Way Back to Paradise (Elektra/Asylum)
It's a Boy - John Cullum, Shenandoah (Klavier)
Soliloquy - Robert Goulet, Carousel [ABC Television]
It's a Fish - Alan Alda, The Apple Tree [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
Go to Sleep, Whatever You Are - Barbara Harris, The Apple Tree [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
What Is a Baby/La la Lu - Peggy Lee, Lady and the Tramp [Disney]
Brahm's Lullaby (Dedicated To My Mother) - Victor Borge, Comedy In Music
Baby Mine [From Dumbo (1941)] - Betty Noyes, Classic Disney, Vol. 4 (Disney International)
You'll Be In My Heart - Merle Dandridge, Tarzan: The Musical (Universal)
Somebody Gonna Love You - LaChanze, The Color Purple [Original Broadway Cast] (Angel)
Welcome to the World - Carolee Carmello, John & Jen
New Words - Mandy Patinkin, Kidults
The Baby Song - Danny Burstein, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (Varese Sarabande)
Love Isn't Everything - Mary Martin; Robert Preston, I Do! I Do! (RCA)
Fandango - Lynne Wintersteller; Richard Muenz, Closer Than Ever [Original Cast] Disc 2 (RCA)
My Name Is Barbra - Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra
Look Out for Mister Stork - Frank Churchill, On the Record Disc 2
Baby, Baby, Baby - Beth Fowler; Todd Graff; Liz Callaway; Martin Vidnovic; Catherine Cox, Baby [Original Broadway Cast 1999] (Jay)
I Know It Can Happen Again - Marni Nixon, Rodgers & Hammerstein: Allegro (Masterworks Broadway)

Oct. 5: Bock & Harnick

2011-10-05T11:46:00.000-07:00

The Very Next Man - Patricia Wilson, Fiorello! [Angel Original Broadway Cast Recording] (Angel)
I'm in Love! I'm in Love! - Paul Hecht, The Rothschilds (Sony Classical)
What Makes Me Love Him? - Sarah Brightman, The Songs that Got Away (Polygram)
Will He Like Me? - Christine Andreas, Here's to the Ladies (Image)
When Did I Fall in Love? - Audra McDonald, How Glory Goes (Elektra/Asylum)
Where Do I Go from Here? - Liz Callaway, Lost in Boston (Colosseum)
I'm Lost [From The Apple Tree] - Walter Willison, Lost in Boston II Unsung Musicals (Colosseum)
Marie's Law - Nathaniel Frey; Patricia Wilson, Fiorello! [Angel Original Broadway Cast Recording] (Angel)
Sunrise, Sunset [Early Version][*] - Jerry Bock, Fiddler on the Roof [Original London Cast] [Bonus Tracks] ()
To Life - Men; Michael Granger; Ross Gifford; Zero Mostel, Fiddler on the Roof OBC (RCA Victor Broadway)
Dear, Sweet Sewing Machine - Emily Loesser, Lost in Boston (Colosseum)
Matchmaker - Laura Michelle Kelly; Lea Michele; Nancy Opel; Sally Murphy; Tricia Paoluccio, Fiddler on the Roof [2004 Broadway Revival Cast] (PS Classics)
Do You Love Me? - Alfred Molina; Randy Graff, Fiddler on the Roof [2004 Broadway Revival Cast] (PS Classics)
Beautiful, Beautiful World - Alan Alda, The Apple Tree [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
No More Candy [From She Loves Me] - Barbara Cook, Barbara Cook's Broadway! ()
Good Clean Fun - , Tenderloin [2000 Encores Cast Recording] (DRG)
The Picture of Happiness - , Tenderloin [2000 Encores Cast Recording] (DRG)

Sep 28: NYC

2011-09-28T09:24:00.000-07:00

Come Up to My Place - Judy Blazer; Mandy Patinkin, Leonard Bernstein's New York (Nonesuch)
Day in New York - Ralph Blane, Meet Me in St. Louis [Original Broadway Cast] (DRG)
Christopher Street - Ken Barnett, Wonderful Town [2003 Broadway Revival Cast] (DRG)
Manhattan [The Garrick Gaieties] - Mickey Rooney, Words & Music ()
On a Roof in Manhattan - Jeffry Denman, Meredith Patterson, Face the Music: Original New York Cast (DRG)
Manhattan Madness - Jeffry Denman, Ensemble, Face the Music: Original New York Cast (DRG)
Manhattan Downbeat - Fred Astaire, Fred Astaire at MGM Disc 1 (Turner/Rhino)
Take Me Back to Manhattan/I Happen to Like New York - Joely Fisher, Cole Porter: A Musical Toast Disc 2 ()
NYC - Alicia Morton; Andrea McArdle; Audra McDonald; Victor Garber, Annie [Original Television Soundtrack] (Sony)
New York Interlude (Concerto in F) - Deadrock Symphony Orchestra, Crazy for You [Original Broadway Cast] ()
New York, New York - Adolph Green; Cris Alexander; John Reardon; Michael Kermoyan, On the Town [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
What More Do I Need? [From Saturday Night] - Andréa Burns, A Deeper Shade of Red (PS Classics)
I Love a New Yorker [My Blue Heaven] - Louise Carlyle, The Music of Harold Arlen (Harbinger Records)
Only In New York - Sheryl Lee Ralph, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Original Broadway Cast) (RCA)
Cherry Street Cafe - Wendy Kimball, Rags (Columbia)
Manhattan - Tim Curry, My Favorite Year (RCA)
Broadway, My Street - Beau Tilden; Bobbi Tremain; Goldye Shaw; Henrietta Jacobson; Joey Faye; Lillian Hayman; Lloyd Harris; Thomas Anderson, 70, Girls, 70 [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony Classical)
Broadway Baby (from Follies) - Carolee Carmello, The Musicality of Sondheim ()
42nd Street - Ruby Keeler, Lullaby of Broadway: The Best of Busby Berkeley at Warner Bros. Disc 1 (EMI Gold)

Sep 21: Everyone Hates His Parents

2011-09-21T19:58:00.000-07:00

Kids - Marijane Maricle; Paul Lynde, Bye Bye Birdie [Original Broadway Cast Recording] (Sony Classical)
Plant a Radish - Harvey Schmidt, The Fantasticks [2006 Off Broadway Recording] (Sh-K-Boom)
The Other Generation - Benson Fong; Juanita Hall; Patrick Adairte, Flower Drum Song [Bonus Track] [Original Soundtrack] (Universal Distribution)
Dear God - Carolee Carmello, James Ludwig, John & Jen (Varese)
Triplets (Between the Devil) - Kim Criswell, Judy Kaye, George Dvorsky, Broadway Showstoppers (Angel)
If Momma Was Married - Cynthia Gibb; Jennifer Beck, Gypsy [Television Soundtrack] (Atlantic)
Our Little World - Vanessa Williams, Into the Woods
No More - Cast, Into the Woods (Nonesuch)
Be Kind to Your Parents - Florence Henderson; Professor Lloyd Reese, Fanny [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
Parents and Children - Joan Ryan, Ruthless [Los Angeles Cast] (Colosseum)
Mame - Boston Pops Orchestra, Time Life Collection - Memories from Musicals: Arthur Fiedler & the Boston Pops
Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now - Marissa Jaret Winokur; Nikki Blonsky; Ricki Lake, Hairspray [2007 Soundtrack] (Universal Classics)
Everyone Hates His Parents - Chip Zien, Danny Gerard, Faith Prince, Michael Rupert, Falsettoland [Original Off-Broadway Cast] (DRG)
Talk Show - Carolee Carmello, James Ludwig, John & Jen
Woe Is Me - Sarah Saltzberg, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Sh-K-Boom)
Never Say No - Hugh Thomas; William Larsen, The Fantasticks [1960 Original Off Broadway Cast] (Decca Broadway)
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Hey There, Single Guy/Gal - Danny Burstein; Jennifer Simard, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
The Father of the Bride/When the Kids Get Married (reprise) - David Garrison, I Do I Do [1996 Cast] (Varese Sarabande)
Far from the Home I Love - Alfred Molina; Laura Michelle Kelly, Fiddler on the Roof [2004 Broadway Revival Cast] (PS Classics)
Kids (Reprise) - Johnny Borden; Marijane Maricle; Parents; Paul Lynde, Bye Bye Birdie [Original Broadway Cast Recording] (Sony Classical)

Sep 14: Judaism - Laughing Through Our Tears

2011-09-14T11:08:00.000-07:00

Cohen Owes Me Ninety-Seven Dollars (Irving Berlin) - New Budapest Orpheum Society, Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano: Jewish Cabaret Popular and Political Songs 1900-1945
Second Hand Rose - Fanny Brice, Star Spangled Rhythm [Smithsonian] Disc 1
Hard to be a Prince - Yiddish Theatre Hamlet & Other Actors, Rags (Columbia)
Kaddish - Cast Rags
Kol Nidre - Al Jolson, The Jazz Singer
You've Got to Be Carefully Taught - Jason Danieley, South Pacific in Concert from Carnegie Hall (Decca Broadway)
Independence Day Hora - Jerry Herman, Milk and Honey [Bonus Track]
Milk and Honey - Robert Weede, Milk and Honey [Bonus Track]
If You Could See Her - Alan Cumming; Joyce Chittick, Cabaret [1998 Original Broadway Cast]
The Jews Have Got Their Irish Up - Sammy Fain, Sammy Sings Fain...Again (Koch International)
Wedding - Original Broadway Cast, The Grand Tour
If I Were a Rich Man - Zero Mostel, Fiddler on the Roof OBC
b>The Family Way - Bambi Linn; Elliott Gould; Harold Lang; Ken Leroy; Lillian Roth; Marilyn Cooper, I Can Get It for You Wholesale [Original Soundtrack] (Sbme Special MKTS.)
Passover [Live] - Carolee Carmello, Make Me a Song, the Music of William Finn [Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording] Disc 1 (Ghostlight)
Candlesticks/Shabbos - Jacqueline Antaramian, The Immigrant: A New American Musical
Sabbath Prayer - Chaim Topol; Company; Miriam Karlin, Fiddler on the Roof [Original London Cast] [Bonus Tracks] (Sony Classical)
When Messiah Comes [From Fiddler on the Roof] - Lee Wilkof, Lost in Boston II Unsung Musicals (Colosseum)
Sh'ma - Brent Carver, Parade
In My Own Lifetime - Hal Linden, The Rothschilds (Sony Classical)

Sep 7: School Daze

2011-09-06T13:07:00.000-07:00

Happy Back-To-School!

Three Little Maids from School Are We (The Mikado) - William Schwenk Gilbert, Topsy-Turvy (Sony Classical)
Second Grade - Marcus Allen Cooper, Personals (JAY)
Teaching Third Grade - Nancy Linari, Ruthless [Los Angeles Cast] (Colosseum)
Welcome to Kindergarten, Mrs. Johnson [A...My Name Is Alice] - Barbara Walsh; Heather MacRae, My Name Will Always Be Alice ()
The Best of All Possible Worlds - Deborah St.Darr; Lewis J. Stadlen; Mark Baker; Maureen Brennan; Sam Freed, Candide [1974 Broadway Revival Cast] Disc 1 ()
Nobody tells me How - Original Cast, Working [Original Cast Recording] ()
School Song - Animaniacs, Chalkboard Bungle ()
Silent E - Tom Lehrer, Tom Lehrer Revisited ()
Conjunction Junction - Jack Sheldon, Schoolhouse Rock ()
Yakko's World - , ()
Wakko Sings American Capitols - Jess Harnell, ()
ABC-DEF-GHI - Big Bird, Songs From The Street: 35 Years Of Music (Disk 1) ()
I'm Just a Bill - Jack Sheldon, Schoolhouse Rock ()
Amendment (Parody) - Jack Sheldon, Schoolhouse Rock ()
Yakko's Universe - Rob Paulsen, ()
Elements song - Tom Lehrer, ()
That's Mathematics - Tom Lehrer, ()
Inchworm - Danny Kaye, ()
What Do You Do With a B.A. in English? - John Tartaglia, Avenue Q (BMG)
Breathe - Mandy Gonzalez, In the Heights Disc 1 (Ghostlight)
Dear Old Shiz - Stephen Schwartz, Wicked (Decca)
Bull Dog [Yale College, 1911] - Thomas Hampson, Cole Porter: Night and Day ()
Grand Old Ivy - Robert Morse; Rudy Vallée, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [Original Cast] (RCA)
Bright College Days - Tom Lehrer, ()
I Wish I Could Go Back to College - John Tarteglia; Rick Lyon; Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Avenue Q (BMG)
(Encore episode from Sep 2010)

Aug 31: What A Waste

2011-08-31T08:23:00.000-07:00

What a Waste - Richard Muenz, Dawn Upshaw, Donna Murphy, Leonard Bernstein's New York (Nonesuch)
Take a Job - Nathan Lane; Randy Graff, Do Re Mi [DRG 1999 New York Concert Cast]
An English Teacher - Chita Rivera; Dick Van Dyke, Bye Bye Birdie [Original Broadway Cast Recording] (Sony Classical)
Movin' Up/In Numbers - Cast, Adding Machine (P.S. Classics)
Scrap - Jason Danieley; John Conlee; Kimberly Grigsby; Patrick Wilson; Romain Frugé; Ted Sper, The Full Monty [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
The Job Application - Karen Morrow, Lost in Boston, Vol. 4
Just a Housewife - Original Cast, Working [Original Cast Recording]
The Work Song - Peggy Powers, Kay Lande, Alan Cole, Eric Carlson, narrated by Shirley Brown, Cinderella [Drive]
The Work Song Cinderelli [Cinderella] - George Bruns, Disney Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty [Original Soundtrack]
Cleanin' Women - Lynne Thigpen, Working [Original Cast Recording]
Money Isn't Everything Dance - Orchestra, Rodgers & Hammerstein: Allegro
At The End Of The Day - Cast, Les Misérables [2010 Cast Album] Disc 1
Bread and Freedom - Cast, Rags
The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square - Judy Kaye, Steven Sutcliffe, Ensemble, Ragtime [Original Broadway Cast Disc 1]
Deep into the Ground - Original Cast, Billy Elliot [Original London Cast] (Decca Broadway)
Barrett's Song - Brian d'Arcy James, Titanic: A New Musical (RCA)
Millwork - Cast, Working, musical play
Racing With The Clock - Cast, Harry On Broadway, Act I
Around Here - Allison Janney and Ensemble, 9 To 5 - The Musical (Original Cast Recording) (Dolly Records)
In the Heights - Lin-Manuel Miranda, Company, In the Heights Disc 1
If I Could've Been - Lynne Thigpen, Cast, Working [Original Cast Recording]

Another relevant lost musical: I Can Get It For You Wholesale

2011-08-25T22:35:00.001-07:00

While prepping next week's Labor Day episode, I listened more to "I Can Get It For You Wholesale," the show that's usually remembered for Barbra Streisand's first Broadway role ("Miss Marmelstein"). It came out the same time as the satirical look at business "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," where the lead is cute and endearing. The businessman in Wholesale is the opposite - cold and determined, essentially ending up almost alone (except for his devoted mother and girlfriend.) One synopsis to the story states "The ending does not necessarily imply that simplicity and goodness are the best rewards but only that Harry is neither ruthless nor cunning enough to attain his goals." Which also goes hand in hand with the latest research from Cornell. Could be one of those shows that gets more relevant with time.

Aug 24: Fall Season Preview for Spokane/CdA

2011-08-23T22:43:00.000-07:00

Disclaimer: I am not paid by anybody to promote shows (yet?) Seriously, I just love theater, especially musical theater. I do shows with my daughter at Spokane Children's Theatre, and my hubby does lighting designs for Interplayers. The full calendar of events is here.
And Spamalot holds a special place for me 'cuz I won a contest to see the Broadway production. The YouTube version went a bit haywire, looking for the original...

Tradition - Full Company, Fiddler on the Roof [2004 Broadway Revival Cast] (PS Classics)
What Do I Need with Love? - Gavin Creel, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Original Broadway Cast) (RCA)
Gimme Gimme - Sutton Foster, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Original Broadway Cast) (RCA)
Brave Enough for Love - Marla Schaffel; James Barbour; Ensemble, Jane Eyre [Original Broadway Cast] Monks Chant/He Is Not Dead Yet - Cast, Monty Python's Spamalot ()
I'm All Alone - Tim Curry, Men, Monty Python's Spamalot (Decca)
Soul Man - The Blues Brothers, Briefcase Full Of Blues ()
Witchcraft (Digitally Remastered) - Frank Sinatra, Mi Collection - Volume 2 ()
Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen - Andrews Sisters, ()
Welcome to Transylvania - Paul Castree, Jack Doyle, Kevin Ligon, Brian Shepard, Young Frankenstein [Original Broadway Cast] ()
Listen to Your Heart - Sutton Foster, Young Frankenstein [Original Broadway Cast] (Decca)
One Jump Ahead - Brad Kane, Aladdin [Original Soundtrack] [Disney] [1992] (Disney)

Fall Spokane & Cd'A Calendar

2011-08-23T16:23:00.000-07:00

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Audition: Spokane Childrens Theatre Aladdin

Musicals and Staged Concerts:
Lake City Playhouse presents Fiddler on the Roof at Lake City Playhouse, Sep 16-Oct 9: Theme of family and an ever-changing world make this a timeless favorite
Spokane Civic Theatre presents Thoroughly Modern Millie at Main Stage, Sep 23-Oct 23: 1920s-style modern musical loosely based on the film
Spokane Children's Theatre presents Disney's Aladdin at Spokane Falls Community College, Oct 15-Oct 23:
Spokane Civic Theatre presents Jane Eyre - In Concert at Main Stage, Oct 28-Oct 29: Concert fundraiser based on the Charlotte Bronte novel
Best of Broadway presents Spamalot at INB Performing Arts Center, Nov 11-Nov 11: Find your grail!
Best of Broadway presents Blues Brothers Revue at INB Performing Arts Center, Nov 13-Nov 13: Wayne Catania and Kieron Lafferty a.k.a. Jake & Elwood
Best of Broadway presents Come Fly Away at INB Performing Arts Center, Nov 17-Nov 20: Frank Sinatra's recorded vocals to a live big band and hot dancing
Interplayers presents Sisters of Swing at Interplayers, Dec 1-Dec 17: Story of the Andrews Sisters
Best of Broadway presents Young Frankenstein at INB Performing Arts Center, Dec 15-Dec 18: Mel Brooks sophomoric Broadway musical
Lake City Playhouse presents Rent at Lake City Playhouse, Jan 13-Jan 29: The rock sensation that revitalized Broadway goes to a small stage
Spokane Civic Theatre presents The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas at Main Stage, Jan 13-Feb 4: These 'pretty women' have lots of heart against a spitefiul televangelist
Best of Broadway presents Beauty and the Beast at INB Performing Arts Center, Jan 26-Jan 29: Disney's Tale as Old as Time

Aug 17: The Sound of Music

2011-08-17T08:47:00.000-07:00

Having trouble displaying a pretty playlist due to a hard drive meltdown. Here's the 'ugly' list:

The Trapp Family Singers Early One Morning An Evening of Folk Songs with the Trapp Family Singers
The Trapp Famiy Singers The Sound of Music The Sound of Music
Patti Cohenour Preludium: Dixit Dominus/Morning Hymn/Alleluia Sound of Music [1998 Broadway Revival Cast]
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra; Eileen Farrell; Erich Kunzel; Frederica Von Stade; Janet Stubbs; Kimberly Barber; Sandra Graham Maria The Sound of Music [1988 Studio Cast]
Rebecca Luker I Have Confidence Sound of Music [1998 Broadway Revival Cast]
Rebecca Luker; Andrea Bowen; Ashley Rose Orr; Matthew Ballinger; Natalie Hall; Ryan Hopkins; Sara Zelle; Tracy Alison Walsh Do-Re-Mi Sound of Music [1998 Broadway Revival Cast]
Jeanne Menke; Neil Jones Sixteen Going on Seventeen The Sound of Music [1988 Studio Cast]
Julie Andrews My Favorite Things The Sound Of Music - 45th Anniversary Edition
Orchestra Laendler The Sound of Music
The Sound Of Music; London Palladium; Ensemble So Long, Farewell (Bolero) - The Sound Of Music/London Palla The Sound Of Music - London Palladium Cast Album 2006
Kurt Kasznar; Marion Marlowe How Can Love Survive? The Sound of Music [Original Broadway Cast] [Bonus Tracks]
Eunice Gasket; Harold Kasket; Roger Dann No Way to Stop It The Sound of Music [Original London Cast]
Lesley Garrett Climb Ev'ry Mountain The Sound Of Music - London Palladium Cast Album 2006
Mary Martin; Theodore Bikel An Ordinary Couple The Sound of Music [Original Broadway Cast] [Bonus Tracks]
Lauri Peters; Mary Martin Sixteen Going on Seventeen (Reprise) The Sound of Music [Original Broadway Cast] [Bonus Tracks]
Julie Andrews; Bill Lee; Charmian Carr; Heather Menzies; Nichola Do-Re-Mi (reprise) The Sound Of Music - 45th Anniversary Edition
Connie Fisher The Lonely Goatherd The Sound Of Music - London Palladium Cast Album 2006
The Trapp Famiy Singers Edelweiss The Sound of Music

Aug. 10: Rodgers & Hammerstein Films

2011-08-10T18:17:00.000-07:00

Oh, What a Beautiful Morning - Gordon MacRae, Oklahoma! [MCA/Capitol] (Snapper)
It's a Grand Night for Singing (Reprise) - Vivian Blaine; William Marshall, State Fair
Don't Marry Me - , Flower Drum Song
It Might as Well Be Spring - Louanne Hogan, State Fair (Varese Sarabande)
Mister Snow - Barbara Ruick, Carousel [Original Soundtrack] (Angel)
Do Re Mi - Julie Andrews, The Sound of Music (Film) (BMG/RCA)
A Puzzlement - Yul Brynner, The King and I (Soundtrack)
Shall I Tell You What I Think - Marni Nixon, Deborah Kerr, The King and I (Columbia)
Younger Than Springtime/Bali Hai - Bill Lee for John Kerr, South Pacific [1958 Film]
Love Look Away - Marilyn Horne, Flower Drum Song
You'll Never Walk Alone - Claramae Turner, Carousel [Original Soundtrack] (Angel)
June Is Bustin' Out All Over - Cast, Carousel [Original Soundtrack] (Angel)
I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right - Mitzi Gaynor, Golden Memories of Stage & Scr (Sony Music)
The Surrey With the Fringe on - Gordon MacRae; Shirley Jones, Oklahoma! [MCA/Capitol] (Snapper)
I Have Confidence - Julie Andrews, The Sound Of Music (RCA/Legacy)
Shall We Dance - Marni Nixon, Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, The King and I

Aug 3: Based on the Life of...

2011-08-03T07:52:00.000-07:00

Why? - Nicol Williamson, Rex [Original Cast] (RCA)
A Puzzlement - Yul Brenner, The King And I (Decca Broadway)
But, Mr. Adams - Brent Spiner, 1776 [New Broadway Cast] (TVT)
Anything You Can Do - Doris Day, Robert Goulet, Annie Get Your Gun
I Ain't Down Yet - Bill Starr; Bob Dalley; Sterling Clark; Tammy Grimes, The Unsinkable Molly Brown [Original Broadway Cast]
There Is A Sucker Born Ev'ry Minute - Jim Dale;Peter Howard - Jim Dale, Barnum
Rose's Turn - Bette Midler, Gypsy [Television Soundtrack] (Atlantic)
Conquering New York - Orchestra, Wonderful Town [2003 Broadway Revival Cast]
Maria - Beamish; Constance Shacklock; Gilbert; Lynn Kennington, The Sound of Music [Original London Cast] (Angel)
Give a Man Enough Rope - Keith Carradine, The Will Rogers Follies [Original Cast] (Columbia)
Musical Comedy Man - Jerry Dodge, Betty Ann Grove, Bernadette Peters, Joel Grey, George M! [Original Cast] (Sony)
The 1st Class Roster - Matthew Bennett, Victoria Clark, Cast, Titanic: A New Musical (RCA)
The Crime of the Century - Ensemble; Lynnette Perry, Ragtime [Original Broadway Cast Disc 1] (BMG)
What Does a Man Do...? - Anne L. Nathan, Assassins [Original Broadway Cast] (PS Classics)
A New Argentina - Patti LuPone, Bob Gunton, Mandy Patinkin, Evita [Premiere American Recording]

July 27 Ahrens & Flaherty

2011-07-27T09:07:00.001-07:00

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Prologue - Ensemble, Ragtime [Original Broadway Cast Disc 1]
We Dance - The Storytellers, Once on This Island [RCA]
The Gospel According to King - Ensemble; Tim Curry; Tom Mardirosian, My Favorite Year
The Comedy of Love - David Patrick Kelly, Julyana Soelistyo, The Glorious Ones
Mama Will Provide - Kecia Lewis Evans; The Storytellers, Once on This Island [RCA] (RCA)
Journey to the Past - Liz Callaway, Anastasia [Atlantic] (Atlantic)
Come Down from the Tree - Lillias White, Lost in Boston (Colosseum)
Gliding - Peter Friedman, Ragtime [Original Cast Recording - RCA]
Ti Moune's Dance - Grands Hommes/La Chanze/The Orchestra, Once on This Island [RCA]
Preamble - Lynn Ahrens, Schoolhouse Rock
Alone in the Universe - Cast, Seussical: The Musical (Polygram)
Times Like This - Janet Metz, Lucky Stiff [Off-Broadway Cast]
Shut up and Dance - Evan Pappas, Lannyl Stephens, My Favorite Year
Opposite You [The Glorious Ones] - Marin Mazzie, Jason Danieley, Opposite You
Back to Before - Patti LuPone, Matters of the Heart (Varèse Sarabande)
Wheels Of A Dream [Ragtime] - Bryn Terfel, Under the Stars (Decca)

July 20: Once Upon a Time

2011-07-10T12:36:00.000-07:00

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July 13: Getting Tall

2011-07-10T12:25:00.000-07:00

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I Won't Grow Up - Mary Martin, Peter Pan [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
Little Known Facts - Anthony Rapp; B.D. Wong; Llana Levine, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown [1999 Broadway Revival Cast] (RCA)
Think Big - Carolee Carmello/James Ludwig, John & Jen
Bye Room - Carolee Carmello; James Ludwig, John & Jen (Varese)
When We Grow Up - Diana Ross, Free to Be...You and Me
Growing Pains - Johnny Johnston; Nomi Mitts, Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Sony)
Maybe (Next to Normal) - Alice Ripley; Jennifer Damiano, Next To Normal [Original Broadway Cast Recording] Disc 2 (Ghostlight)
The Age of Not Believing [From Bedknobs and Broomsticks] - Christine Ebersole, Believe: The Songs of the Sherman Brothers (Fynsworth Alley)
Sunrise, Sunset - Chaim Topol; Company; Miriam Karlin, Fiddler on the Roof [Original London Cast] [Bonus Tracks] (Sony Classical)
Slipping Through My Fingers - Meryl Streep, Mamma Mia
Stop, Time (Big) - Liz Callaway, On and off Broadway: The Story Goes On (Varese)
Be Happy - Shelly Winters, Minnie's Boys (Project 3)
Part of Getting Tall (from Nine) - Malcolm Gets, The Journey Home (PS Classics)
Move On - Bernadette Peters, Sondheim, Etc.: Live at Carnegie Hall
Growing Up - Malcolm Gets, Merrily We Roll Along [1994 Off-Broadway Revival Cast]
Summer Is Over - Cast, A Family Affair [Original Broadway Cast]
Old Folks - Cast, 70, Girls, 70 [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony Classical)

July 5: Comden & Green

2011-07-05T22:23:00.000-07:00

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Taxi Song - Adolph Green; Betty Comden, Perform Their Own Songs (DRG)
If You Hadn't But You Did - Dolores Gray, Two on the Aisle [Original Broadway Cast] (Uptown/Universal)
Vaudeville Ain't Dead/Catch Our Act at the Met - Bert Lahr; Dolores Gray, Two on the Aisle [Original Broadway Cast] (Uptown/Universal)
Interview - Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne, Do Re Mi [DRG 1999 New York Co
Just in Time - Sydney Chaplin; Judy Holliday, Bells Are Ringing [Original Br
Give a Little, Get a Little - Carol Burnett, Let Me Entertain You: Carol Burnett Sings (Decca Broadway)
Make Someone Happy - Brian Stokes Mitchell; Heather Headley, Do Re Mi [DRG 1999 New York Concert Cast] (DRG)
Ohio - Edith Adams; Rosalind Russell, American Musical Theatre: Shows, Songs and Stars, Vol. 3 (Smithsonian)
Story of My Life - Judy Blazer, Leonard Bernstein's New York (Nonesuch)
I Like Myself - Gene Kelly, S Wonderful
Carried Away - Judy Kaye, On the Town (Studio Recording)
Wrong Note Rag - Edith Adams; Rosalind Russell, Wonderful Town [Original Broad (MCA)
Never Never Land - Michelle Nicastro, Musical Adventures of Peter Pan (Varese Sarabande)
Distant Melody - Mary Martin; Kathy Nolan, Peter Pan [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
An Interview With Jule Styne/B - Soundtrack, Do Re Mi [DRG 1999 New York Co
The Time for Parting - Adolph Green; Betty Comden, Perform Their Own Songs (DRG)
The Party's Over [From Bells Are Ringing] - Barbara Cook, Barbara Cook's Broadway!
Some Other Time - Cast, Bernstein on Broadway: Highlights from West Side Story, Candide and on the Town (Polygram)

Free Music Downloads from Spokane Library

2011-07-01T17:16:00.001-07:00

Interesting news for music fans in the City of Spokane: Download three songs a week from the Sony catalog for free, to keep. Legally. THE CITY OF SPOKANE PAYS FOR THIS! It simply requires a valid/current Spokane City Library card. (Which reminds me to renew....)

This is a new subscription service called Freegal (rhymes with legal). "It includes a variety of musical styles such as classical, jazz, rock and pop." AND MUSICAL THEATER CAST ALBUMS! Downloads begin MID-JULY (2011).

"Customers will be able to download three songs a week for free, to keep. Because there are no digital rights management issues the songs are not loaned, they are just available. We pay for the service, just like we pay to buy books, DVDs and CDs in order to provide them to customers. One of the reasons the library selected this service was because it is very customer friendly.

Some of the aspects of the service that make it customer friendly:

* mp3 format (no confusion about competing formats)
* web-based (no software to download)
* use in library or your own computer
* works on PCs AND Macs
* vast collection increases offerings to customers"

Because of that last section, I hope this doesn't mean that the library will stop purchasing tangible materials. I have found many unusual, rare, highly out-of-print items in libraries around the country. (I've also purchased items that libraries chose to cull from their collections because no one was borrowing them. Horror!)

Bottom line - visit your local library. Music theater fans will probably be very impressed at what they find. Just be prepared to find them in the SOUNDTRACKS section (shudder).

June 29: America

2011-06-28T14:30:00.000-07:00

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Yankee Doodle Dandy - Joel Grey, Company, George M! [Original Cast]
You're a Grand Ol Flag - Joel Grey, Company, George M! [Original Cast]
I Want to Hear a Yankee Doodle Tune - Billy Murray, Star Spangled Rhythm [Smithsonian] Disc 1 (Smithsonian Collection)
Yankee Doodle Rhythm - Cast, Strike Up the Band (Nonesuch)
God's Country - Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Douglas McPahil, Betty Jaynes, Judy Garland & Mickey Rooney Collection [Box Set]
I Like America - Graham Payn; Pat Kirkwood; Sylvia Cecil, Ace of Clubs (Bayview)
What a Country - Ray Bolger, All American [Original Cast] (Sony Classical)
Typical Self-Made American - Cast, Strike Up the Band (Nonesuch)
The American Dream - Jonathan Pryce, Miss Saigon [Original London Cast] Disc 2
America - Karen Olivo; Jennifer Sanchez, West Side Story (Sony Masterworks Broadway)
America - Fozzie (Frank Oz), The Muppet Movie (Zoom Express)
Piddle, Twiddle and Resolve - William Daniels; Virginia Vestoff, 1776 [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony Classical)
Cool, Cool, Considerate Men - Cast, 1776 [New Broadway Cast] (TVT)
The Egg - Ken Howard; Rex Everhart; William Daniels, 1776 [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony Classical)
The Flagmaker, 1775 - Jessica Molaskey, Songs for a New World (RCA)
Is Anybody There? - Brent Spiner, 1776 [New Broadway Cast] (TVT)
God Bless America - Kate Smith, This Is the Army [Original Broadway Cast] (Howard's)

June 22: Wheels

2011-06-21T15:39:00.000-07:00

Yes, I'm aware that I'm probably the only person who would pair "Chitty Bang Bang" with "Greased Lightnin'" (NOT "the chicks will scream" version.) This show has some of my favorites: Highway of Love, Wheels, the Taxi number, and Movin' Right Along (I'm a big Muppets fan).

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Henry Ford - Larry Daggett, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Ragtime [Original Broadway Cast Disc 1] (RCA)
Driving at Night - Oscar Hammerstein II, State Fair [Original Broadway Cast] (DRG)
Travel Hopefully - Don Stephenson; John Scherer; Martin Jarvis, By Jeeves [Original Broadway Cast] (Uptown/Universal)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Carrie Fletcher; Emma Williams; George Gillies; Michael Ball, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [Original London Cast] (Sony)
Greased Lightnin' - Jim Jacobs, Grease [Original Broadway Cast] (Polygram)
Greased Lightnin' (Reprise) - Rosie O'Donnell, Grease [1994 Broadway Revival Cast] (RCA)
Cadillac Car - Billy Porter; Darius de Haas; Heather Headley; James Stovall; Norm Lewis, Dreamgirls in Concert: The First Complete Recording Disc 1
Lovin' Al - Original Cast, Working [Original Cast Recording]
Brother Trucker - Original Cast, Working [Original Cast Recording] (Varese Sarabande)
Traffic Jam - James Taylor,
Pump Boys - , Pump Boys & Dinettes: On Broadway (CBS Masterworks)
Taking It Slow - , Pump Boys & Dinettes: On Broadway (CBS Masterworks)
Taxi - Jared Crawford; Raymond King, Bring in 'da Noise Bring in 'da Funk
Movin' Right Along - Kermit (Jim Henson), Fozzie (Frank Oz), The Muppet Movie (Zoom Express)
Taxi Number: Come Up to My Place - Cris Alexander; Nancy Walker, On the Town [Original Broadway Cast]
On the Highway of Love - Danny Burstein, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (Varese Sarabande)
The Drive In - Louise Gold, Nunsense
Alone at a Drive-In Movie - Jim Jacobs, Grease [Original Broadway Cast] (Polygram)
Wheels - Barbara Walsh, My Name Will Always Be Alice
Wheels of a Dream - Brian Stokes Mitchell, Audra McDonald, Ragtime [Original Broadway Cast Disc 1] (RCA Victor Broadway)

June 15: We're Family

2011-06-15T11:50:00.000-07:00

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Go Visit Your Grandmother - Henrietta Jacobson; Tommy Breslin, 70, Girls, 70 [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony Classical)
I Don't Need Anything but You - Andrea McArdle; Reid Shelton; Sandy Faison, Annie [Original Broadway Cast] [Remastered] (That's Entertainment/Sony)
Family - Randy Newman, James and the Giant Peach (101 DISTRIBUTION)
One Small Girl - Afi McClendon/Ellis Williams/Sheila Gibbs/The Storytellers, Once on This Island (RCA)
My Child - Bernard Reilly; Martin Etheridge; Nick Payn; Rod Edwards; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Susanna Furmanek-Halberda; Terry Johnston; Will Hill, Blood Brothers [International Cast Recording]
I Won't Mind - Audra McDonald, How Glory Goes (Elektra/Asylum)
Five Forever - Sutton Foster, Little Women: The Musical (Sh-K-Boom)
Round My Family Tree - Jim Cummings, The Tigger Movie and More (Disney)
A Handbag Is Not a Proper Mother - John Irving; Sara Seegar, Ernest in Love (DRG)
Look over There - Gene Barry, La Cage aux Folles [Original Cast] (RCA)
Family Values - Ryan Perry, Bed, Boys & Beyond (Original Cast Record)
Old Clothes - Carolee Carmello, John & Jen (Varese)
Just Like You - Carolee Carmello, John & Jen (Varese)
Not While I'm Around - Edward Sanders, Helena Bonham Carter, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street [2007 Deluxe Edition] (Nonesuch)
They Live in You (with Reprise) - Samuel E. Wright, Jason Raize; Tsidi Leloka, The Lion King [Original Broadway Cast] (Disney)
Children Will Listen - Bernadette Peters, Sondheim, Etc., Etc.: Live at Carnegie Hall -- The Rest of It (Angel)

June 8: "Yip" Harburg

2011-06-08T00:54:00.000-07:00

(Okay, so my voice is a little rough right now. Blame some kind of allergy I get every spring and fall.)

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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? - Mandy Patinkin, Mandy Patinkin
You're a Builder Upper - Ethel Merman, American Legends Series: You're the Top (Pro-Arte Records)
I Love to Sing-A - Al Jolson, Cab Calloway, Let Me Sing and I'm Happy: At Warner Bros. 1926-1936 (Turner)
Paper Moon - James Caan, Funny Lady
April in Paris - Klea Blackhurst, Autumn in New York: Vernon Duke's Broadway (Sh-K-Boom)
Down With Love - Judy Garland, The Very Best Of Judy Garland
Lydia the Tattooed Lady - Groucho Marx, At the Circus (Raven)
Satan's Li'l Lamb - Ethel Merman, American Legends Series: You're the Top (Pro-Arte Records)
Ain't It De Truth - Lena Horne, Jamaica (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Over the Rainbow - Judy Garland, Judy Garland in Hollywood: Her Greatest Movie Hits (Rhino / Wea)
Necessity - Guy Davis; Terri White, Finian's Rainbow [2009 Broadway Revival Cast]
It Was Good Enough for Grandma - Celeste Holm, Bloomer Girl (Decca Broadway)
The Eagle and Me - Chorus; Dooley Wilson, Bloomer Girl (Decca Broadway)
For Every Fish - Adelaide Hall, Jamaica (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe/Addenda to Happiness - Ethel Waters, Cabin in the Sky [Rhino/Angel] (Rhino)
Here's to Your Illusions - Barbara Cook; Jerome Courtland, Flahooley (DRG)
When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love - Malcolm Gets, Finian's Rainbow [2004 Off-Broadway Revival Cast]
Look to the Rainbow - Kate Baldwin; Cheyenne Jackson; Jim Norton, Finian's Rainbow [2009 Broadway Revival Cast] (Ps Classics)

June 1: Class Struggle

2011-05-31T22:03:00.001-07:00

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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, High Society ()
The Harvard Variations - Legally Blonde (Original Broadway Cast), Legally Blonde (Original Broadway Cast) ()
Big Fish, Little Fish - Joyce Brown; C. David Colson; John Heffernan, Purlie (RCA Victor Broadway)
Rich and Happy - Company, Putting It Together (Image Entertainment)
This Is The Life - Billy Daniels, Sammy Davis Jr, Paula Wayne, Cast, Golden Boy (DRG)
Come Raise Your Cup - Chorus, Ernest in Love (DRG)
Ascot Gavotte - Company, My Fair Lady [Original London Cast] [Bonus Track] (Sony Classical)
Why Can't the English? - Rex Harrison; Robert Coote, My Fair Lady [Original Broadway Cast] [2002 Bonus Tracks] (Sony Mid-Price)
Pleasure and Privilege - Jon Peck; Keene Curtis, The Rothschilds (Sony Classical)
That Great Come-and-Get-It Day - Jeannie Carson, Carol Brice, Chorus, Finian's Rainbow [1960 Broadway Revival Cast Recording] (RCA Victor)
When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich - Orchestra, Finian's Rainbow [2009 Broadway Revival Cast] (PS Classics)
When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich - Jim Norton; Kate Baldwin, Finian's Rainbow [2009 Broadway Revival Cast] (PS Classics)
I Have Danced - Victoria Clark, Bill Buell, Titanic: A New Musical (RCA)
Chimp in a Suit - Gregory Jbara, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Ghostlight)
What Do the Simple Folk Do? - Julie Andrews; Richard Burton, Camelot [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
Rent - Jonathan Larson, Rent [Original Soundtrack] Disc 1 (Warner Bros.)
I'm Black/Ain't Got No - Cast, Hair [Original Soundtrack: 20th Anniversary Edition] (RCA)
Rags - Judy Kuhn, Dick Latessa, Rags (Columbia)
Once We Were Kings - Class, Billy Elliot [Original London Cast] (Decca Broadway)

May 25: Unusual Love Songs

2011-05-25T09:11:00.000-07:00

In honor of my 13th wedding anniversary, I focus on love songs this week. It seems strangely fitting that my darling hubby spent the evening at a theater board meeting while I worked on my show.

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What More Do I Need? - Dawn Upshaw, I Wish It So (Elektra/Asylum)
Till There Was You (From the Music Man) - Christiane Noll, Three Broadway Divas ()
You've Got That Thing - Jason Graae, Fifty Million Frenchmen (New World)
What Makes Me Love Him? - Barbara Harris, The Apple Tree [Original Broadway Cast] ()
Bill [Alternate Version] - Annette Warren, Show Boat [1951 Soundtrack] [Bonus Tracks] (Turner)
Unusual Way - Elaine Paige, Jonathan Price, Nine (Sony Classical)
The Human Heart - Andrea Frierson; The Storytellers, Once on This Island [RCA] ()
Kiss the Girl [From the Little Mermaid] - Samuel E. Wright, Classic Disney, Vol. 1 (Walt Disney/EMI)
As Long as You're Mine - Idina Menzel; Norbert Leo Butz, Wicked (Decca)
People Will Say We're in Love - Gordon McRae & Shirley Jones, Golden Memories of Stage & Screen 2 (RCA)
If I Loved You - John Raitt; Eileen Christy, Carousel [1965 Broadway Revival Cast] (RCA)
Loving You - Donna Murphy; Jere Shea, Passion [Original Broadway Cast Recording] (Angel Records)
If Ever I Would Leave You - Robert Goulet, Camelot [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
Buddy's Blues - Bronson Pinchot, Putting It Together (Image Entertainment)

May 18: Stephen Schwartz

2011-05-18T08:40:00.000-07:00

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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

Musicfest Northwest

2011-05-10T22:26:00.000-07:00

No Matinee show this week due to the great young artists performing in the Musicfest in Spokane. Wow, there are amazing musicians who work their fingers off to make lovely art!

May 4: Irving Berlin

2011-05-04T11:07:00.001-07:00

My co-worker asked me the topic of today's show. When I told her, she asked who Irving Berlin was. "Annie Get Your Gun?" I prodded, but it didn't ring bells with the self-proclaimed "death-metal chick." I told her he wrote a lot of songs she'd recognize. She didn't believe me, but throughout the hour she'd gape at the radio, "He wrote this?" "He wrote THIS?" "You're kidding me..." Then I had to add he also wrote White Christmas and God Bless America, two of his immense hits that are in other episodes of the Matinee. Jerome Kern was right: "Irving Berlin... IS American music."

You'd Be Surprised - Eddie Cantor, Star Spangled Rhythm [Smithsonian] Disc 1 Shaking The Blues Away (Ziegfeld Follies) - Ruth Etting,
Alexander's Ragtime Band - Al Jolson; Bing Crosby, The Best of the Decca Years (MCA)
The Army's Made a Man out of Me - Chorus; Corporal Philip Truex; Oshins, Sgt. Julie; Staff Sergeant Ezra Stone, This Is the Army [Original Broadway Cast]
Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning - Irving Berlin, This Is the Army [Original Broadway Cast] (Howards International)
Rock-A-Bye Baby (Music Box Revue of 1924) - Grace Moore; Rosario Bourdon, The Ultimate Irving Berlin, Vol. 2
Heat Wave - Ethel Merman, American Legends Series: You're the Top
Blue Skies/It's A Lovely Day Today - Malcolm Gets, Melissa Errico, The Journey Home (PS Classics)
Steppin' Out With My Baby - Fred Astaire, Fred Astaire at MGM Disc 1 (Turner/Rhino)
Puttin' on the Ritz - Roger Bart, Shuler Hensley, Young Frankenstein [Original Broadway Cast]
There's No Business Like Show Business - Tom Wopat, Ron Holgate, Peter Marx, Annie Get Your Gun [1999 Broadway Revival Cast]
They Say It's Wonderful [Outtake] (Annie Get Your Gun) - Howard Keel; Judy Garland, Romantic Duets from MGM Classics (Decca)
My Defenses Are Down - Ron Raines, Broadway Passion (That's Entertainment)
You're Just In Love - Ethel Merman, Dick Haymes, Call Me Madam
Mr.Monotony (Miss Liberty/Call Me Madam) - Debbie Shapiro, Jerome Robbins' Broadway Disc 2
Love, You Didn't Do Right by Me/How Deep Is the Ocean - Anastasia Barzee, Brian D'Arcy James, White Christmas [Original Studio Cast] (Ghostlight)
It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow - Irving Berlin, Louisiana Purchase
Falling out of Love Can Be Fun - Anastasia Barzee; Karen Morrow; Meredith Patterson, White Christmas [Original Studio Cast] (Ghostlight)

April 27: Friends and Frenemies

2011-04-27T08:41:00.000-07:00

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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 ()

April 20: Andrew Lloyd Webber

2011-04-20T11:19:00.000-07:00

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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...

2011-04-20T11:15:00.000-07:00

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.....

Apr 6: April In Paris

2011-04-05T23:28:00.001-07:00

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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)

Mar 30 - Live at KPBX!

2011-03-30T09:36:00.000-07:00

Spring is here which means... PLEDGE DRIVE! Before you run off screaming, I have bunches of tickets to give away via Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre and Best of Broadway. Tune in and call 328-5729 in Spokane, outside Spokane call 1-800-328-5729. Pledge and be entered to WIN TICKETS!
Plus, to be honest, it shows me that people are actually listening and that this time it takes is truly appreciated and worth it. Thank you!

Mar 23: Stephen Sondheim

2011-03-22T20:39:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Stephen Sondheim!
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Lovely - Ruthie Henshall, Carol Burnett, Cast, Putting It Together (Image Entertainment)
Everybody Ought to Have a Maid - Lewis J. Stadlen, Nathan Lane, Mark Linn-Baker, Ernie Sabella, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum [Angel] (Angel)
Everybody Says Don't (Anyone Can Whistle) - Timothy Nolen, Sondheim Disc 1 (BMR)
The Miller's Son - D. Jamin Bartlett, A Little Night Music (Sony)
Kiss Me - Lauren Molina, Benjamin Magnuson, Sweeney Todd [2005 Broadway Revival Cast] (Nonesuch)
Everybody Loves Louis - Bernadette Peters, Sunday in the Park with George (RCA)
What Can You Lose? - Judy Kuhn, Unsung Sondheim (Fynsworth Alley)
Goodbye for Now [From Reds] - Liz Callaway, Unsung Sondheim (Fynsworth Alley)
Send in the Clowns [A Little Night Music] - Judi Dench, Hey Mr. Producer!: The Musical World of Cameron MacKintosh Disc 2 (404 Music Group)
God - , Sondheim on Sondheim [Original Broadway Cast] Disc 2 (P.S. Classics)
I Remember [Evening Primrose] - Megan Mullally, The Sweetheart Break-In (SELEC (Supreme Music Program)
Losing My Mind [Follies] - Michael Ball, Hey Mr. Producer!: The Musical (404 Music Group/Phillips)
Loving You - Donna Murphy; Jere Shea, Passion [Original Broadway Cast Recording] (Angel Records)
No One is Alone - Barbara Cook, No One Is Alone (DRG)
You Could Drive a Person Crazy - Original Cast Recording, Company [1996 London Revival Cast] (RCA)
Finishing the Hat - Mandy Patinkin, Sunday in the Park with George [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
Our Time - Stephen Sondheim, Merrily We Roll Along [1994 Off-Broadway Revival Cast] (Colosseum)

Mar 16: Happily Ever After

2011-03-16T00:33:00.001-07:00

Since I'm opening Hansel & Gretel this Saturday, and was just cast last night in the subsequent Snow White (just make sure there's a "w" when you say "witch") I have fairy tales on the mind. And they lived happily ever after.

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Little Lady Make Believe - Eddie Cantor, Cocktail Hour Disc 1 (Columbia River Entertainment Group)
Hello, Little Girl - Cast, Into the Woods (Nonesuch)
I Know Things Now - Danielle Ferland, Into the Woods [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
Giants in the Sky - Benjamin Wright, Into the Woods [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
Jack and the Beanstalk - Archie Andrews; Hattie Jacques; Julie Andrews; Peter Brough; Peter Madden, Once Upon a Time (Sepia Recordings)
Castle on a Cloud - Cast, Les Miserables [Red Ink Original London Cast] Disc 1 (First Night/Relativity/Red Ink)
Once upon a Time - Daniel McDonald; Melissa Errico, High Society [Original Broadway Cast] (DRG)
Two Fairy Tales - Craig Lucas; Suzanne Henry, A Collector's Sondheim Disc 2 (RCA Victor Broadway)
Johnny One Note - Melissa Rain Anderson, Babes in Arms [1999 New York Cast Recording] (DRG)
Some Day My Prince Will Come [From Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs] - Adriana Caselotti, Classic Disney, Vol. 1 (Walt Disney/EMI)
True Love's Kiss (As Used in the Film Enchanted) - Amy Adams; James Marsden, Enchanted [Original Soundtrack] (EMI Music Distribution)
Agony - Stephen Sondheim, Into the Woods (Nonesuch)
I Know It's Today - Leah Greenhaus, Shrek: The Musical (Decca)
Happily Ever After - Carol Burnett, Once upon a Mattress [Original Broadway Cast] [Bonus Tracks] (MCA)
The Wheel Goes Round - Valerie Vigoda, Sleeping Beauty Wakes (PS Classics)
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? (Three Little Pigs) - Billy Bletcher; Dorothy Compton; Mary Moder; Pinto Colvig, The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song Disc 1 (Disney)
When You Wish Upon a Star - Cliff "Ukelele Ike" Edwards, Pinocchio [Disney] (Disney)

Calendar of Musical Theatre Events

2011-03-11T17:35:00.000-08:00

Kaleidoscope Festival presents Drowsy Chaperone at Spokane Civic Theatre Main Stage, Mar 11-Mar 11: 7:00p - one-hour competition version, plus the play Artistic Inspiration.
Lake City Playhouse presents And The World Goes Round at Lake City Playhouse, Mar 11-Mar 12: A collection of Kander & Ebb songs including Cabaret and Chicago
Kaleidoscope Festival presents 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at Spokane Civic Theatre Main Stage, Mar 12-Mar 12: 2:00p - one-hour competition version, plus the plays Wildwood Park and All My Sons
Best of Broadway presents 9 to 5 at INB Performing Arts Center, Mar 24-Mar 27: Dolly Parton's movical
Best of Broadway presents Cats at INB Performing Arts Center, Apr 23-Apr 24: Cats does have 9 lives…
Best of Broadway presents Wicked at INB Performing Arts Center, May 18-May 29: Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West were roommates in college
Spokane Civic Theatre presents The Full Monty at Main Stage, May 20-Jun 19: Hysterically funny musical about family and friendship as out-of-work "real guys" prep a strip show
Lake City Playhouse presents Urinetown at Lake City Playhouse, May 27-Jun 19: Terrible title, thought-provoking comic musical
Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre presents Wizard of Oz at NIC Schuler Performing Arts Center, Jun 9-Jun 19: We're off to see the Wizard…
Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre presents A Little Night Music at NIC Schuler Performing Arts Center, Jun 30-Jul 10: A lovely Stephen Sondheim waltz-fest
Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre presents Once On This Island at NIC Schuler Performing Arts Center, Jul 21-Jul 31: Carribean fairy tale where love and death collide
Spokane Civic Theatre presents BUDDY: The Buddy Holly Story at Main Stage, Jul 22-Jul 31: Summer revival of last fall's musical production
Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre presents The Sound of Music at NIC Schuler Performing Arts Center, Aug 11-Aug 21: The hills are alive
Civic's Summer Camp presents Footloose at Spokane Civic Theatre Main Stage, Aug 12-Aug 19: Young students in Civic's summer camp perform

There's No Business Like Show Business

2011-03-09T08:18:00.000-08:00

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Willkommen - Joel Grey, Cabaret (Sony)
Welcome to the Theatre - Lauren Bacall, Applause (Decca U.S.)
There's No Tune Like a Show Tune - , Front Row Center: The Broadway Gold Box, 1935-1988 Disc 4 (Decca)
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)
Broadway Boogie Woogie - Carolee Carmello, A Class Act: A Musical About Musicals (RCA)
A Summer in Ohio - Sherie Ren?cott, The Last Five Years
Nothing - Priscilla Lopez, A Chorus Line [Original Broadway Cast] (Beat Goes On)
She's No Longer a Gypsy - Cast, Applause (Decca U.S.)
There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway - Mel Brooks, The Producers [2005 Soundtrack] (Sony)
Opening Night - Company, The Producers [Original Broadway Cast Recording] (Sony Classical)
Backstage Babble - Len Cariou, Cast, Applause (Decca U.S.)
Show People - Debra Monk, David Hyde Pierce, Cast, Curtains (Manhattan Records)
I Hate Musicals - Rita McKenzie, Ruthless [Los Angeles Cast] (Colosseum)
Jeanette's Showbiz Number - Kathy Freeman; Kimberly Grigsby; Ted Sperling; The Men, The Full Monty [Original Broadway Cast]
Life upon the Wicked Stage - Jan Hunter, Show Boat [1971 London Revival Cast] [Highlights] (Delta)
Make 'Em Laugh - Donald O'Conner, Singin' In the Rain (Turner)
I Want to Make Magic - Gavin Creel, Fame [Original Cast Recording] (DRG)
There's No Business Like Show Business - John Raitt; Mary Martin, Annie Get Your Gun [TV Soundtrack] (Angel)

March 2: Lerner & Loewe

2011-03-02T08:34:00.000-08:00

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Once in the Highlands/Brigadoon - M-G-M Studio Orchestra & Chorus, Brigadoon [Original Soundtrack] [CBS Special Products Bonus Tracks]
Almost Like Being in Love - David Brooks; Marion Bell, Brigadoon [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA Victor)
There But for You Go I [From Brigadoon] - Ron Raines, Brigadoon - So in Love With Broadway (Jay)
They Call the Wind Maria [From Paint Your Wagon] - Ron Raines, Paint Your Wagon - So in Love With Broadway (Jay)
I Talk to the Trees - Tony Bavaar, Paint Your Wagon [Original Broadway Cast]
Show Me - Julie Andrews; Leonard Weir, My Fair Lady [Original London Cast] [Bonus Track] (Sony Classical)
Playback: Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe [#][*] - Alan Jay Lerner/Frederick Loewe, My Fair Lady [Original Broadway Cast] [2002 Bonus Tracks]
Playback: Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe [#][*] - Alan Jay Lerner/Frederick Loewe, My Fair Lady [Original Broadway Cast] [2002 Bonus Tracks]
I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face [From My Fair Lady] - Jonathan Pryce, My Fair Lady - Hey Mr. Producer!: The Musical World of Cameron MacKintosh Disc 1
On the Street Where You Live [From My Fair Lady] - Henry Wickham, Greatest Love Songs From Musicals
Get Me to the Church on Time - Stanley Holloway, My Fair Lady [Original London Cast] [Bonus Track] (Sony)
Playback: Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe [#][*] - Alan Jay Lerner/Frederick Loewe, My Fair Lady [Original Broadway Cast] [2002 Bonus Tracks]
If Ever I Would Leave You - Ron Raines, Camelot - Broadway Passion (That's Entertainment)
Camelot - Richard Burton, Camelot [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
Before I Gaze at You - Julie Andrews, Camelot [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
Playback: Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe [#][*] - Alan Jay Lerner/Frederick Loewe, My Fair Lady [Original Broadway Cast] [2002 Bonus Tracks]
Gigi - Louis Jourdan, Gigi (Turner)
Thank Heaven for Little Girls - Alfred Drake, Gigi [Original Cast] (RCA)
The Night They Invented Champagne - Betty Wand; Hermione Gingold; Leslie Caron; Louis Jourdan, Star Spangled Rhythm [Smithsonian] Disc 3 (Smithsonian Collection)
Be Happy - Donna McKechnie, The Little Prince [Original Soundtrack] (Decca)
Little Prince - Richard Kiley, The Little Prince [Original Soundtrack] (Decca)
You Haven't Changed at All [from the Day Before Spring] - Brent Barrett/Lauren Bacall, The Alan Jay Lerner Album

Christian Lite

2011-02-23T08:26:00.000-08:00

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Be a Catholic - Chloe Webb, Forbidden Broadway (DRG)
Blow, Gabriel, Blow - Kim Criswell, Anything Goes (First Recording of the Original 1934 Version) (Angel)
Why Me? - Danny Kaye, Two by Two (Sony Broadway)
The Calling - Altar Boyz, Altar Boyz (Sh-K-Boom)
You're a Nun - Deborah del Mastro/Jennifer Smith/Nancy Johnston/Vicki Lawrence, Nunsense, Vol. 3: The Jamboree (DRG)
Do Unto Others - Company, Nunsense, Vol. 3: The Jamboree (DRG)
Vatican Rag - Tom Lehrer, That Was the Year That Was (Shout! Factory)
Church Rulez - Altar Boyz, Altar Boyz (Sh-K-Boom)
All for the Best - David Haskell, Stephen Nathan, Godspell [Original Off-Off-Broadway Cast] (Arista)
The Lord Is Good to Me (Melody Time) - Dennis Day, The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song Disc 1 (Disney)
It Ain't Necessarily So - Decca Symphony Orchestra; Eva Jessye Choir; Todd Duncan, Porgy & Bess] (MCA, Angel)
New Fangled Preacher Man - Cleavon Little; Joyce Brown, Purlie (RCA Victor Broadway)
King Herod's Song - Paul Ainsley, Jesus Christ Superstar [A Decca Broadway Original Cast] (Universal Distribution)
Simon Zealotes - Tony Vincent, Jesus Christ Superstar [London Revival Cast] (Sony)
Hail to the Shoe - Cast, Not the Messiah (Madison Gate Records)
God Don't Make No Trash - Cast Recording, Bare the Album Act 2 ()
Can't No Grave Hold My Body Down - Clinton Derricks-Carrol, Your Arms Too Short to Box With God ()
Holier Than Thou - Dan Goggin, Nunsense ()

Feb 16: Everyone's A Little Bit Racist

2011-02-15T23:14:00.001-08:00

** NOTE ** The context to one of the worst songs on today's show, the Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson medley (starting with 10 Little Indians) wasn't given on KPBX, due to my own editing error. The PRX version IS CORRECT. Listen to this episode on PRX (free account required - it's worth it!)

Here's the text of what you should have heard on the radio:

One rock musical takes populist government to task by examining Andrew Jackson's presidency through the lens of today's youth. Andrew Jackson is a self-centered rock star, and he and his followers demean everyone else, from the Spanish to the upper class. Native Americans are the target of most of the abuse. Jackson did force the Trail of Tears, but the musical seems to push even further with the characters' visceral hatred of Native Americans. Here's a little bit in context, from Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.

I'm an Indian, Too - Mary Martin, Annie Get Your Gun [TV Soundtrack] (Angel)
Ugg-A-Wugg - Mary Martin/Sondra Lee, Peter Pan [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA Victor Broadway)
What Made the Red Man Red - Disney, Peter Pan (Walt Disney Records)
Ten Little Indians/Populism, Yea Yea/Crisis Averted - Company, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Original Cast Recording) (Ghostlight)
I Hate Music: A Big Indian and a Little Indian - Blanche Thebom, Leonard Bernstein The Early Years IV (RCA)
Colors of the Wind - Judy Kuhn, Pocahontas [Original Soundtrack] (Walt Disney)
I Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much) - Carmen Miranda, Funny Songs (Master Classics Records)
I Make My Money With Bananas / Babalu - Cast, 4 Guys Named Jose...And Una Mujer Named Maria! (DRG)
All You Have to Do Is Wait - Shawn Elliott, City of Angels [Original Broadway Cast] (Columbia)
Taxi - Jared Crawford/Raymond King, Bring in 'da Noise Bring in 'da Funk (BMG)
Message From a Nightingale - Original Cast Recording, The Drowsy Chaperone (Sh-K-Boom Records)
Muquin (after "Mammy") - Francis Jue/Harriet Harris/Ken Leung, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Original Broadway Cast) (RCA Victor)
Swanee (originally in Sinbad) - Al Jolson, The Encyclopedia of Jazz (Recording Arts)
Great White Father - Joyce Brown, Purlie (RCA Victor Broadway)
Southern Days - Original Off-Broadway Cast, The Scottsboro Boys (Jay Records)
Uncle Huck-A-Buck Song - Ann Duquesnay/Baakari Wilder/Jeffrey Wright, Bring in 'da Noise Bring in 'da Funk (BMG)
Yes, I's Finished on Y'all's Farmlands - Darius Nichols, Ato Blankson-Wood, Brandon Pearson, Tommar Wilson, Hair [2009 Broadway Revival Cast] (Ghostlight)
I'm Black - Darius Nichols, Bryce Ryness, Will Swenson, Gavin Creel, Sasha Allen, Hair [2009 Broadway Revival Cast] (Ghostlight)
Colored Spade - Lamont Washington, Hair [Broadway Deluxe Collector's Edition] [Original Broadway Cast] [RCA] Disc 1 (Victor)
Everyone's a Little Bit Racist - Ann Harada; John Tartaglia; Jordan Gelber; Natalie Venetia Belcon; Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Avenue Q (BMG)

Feb. 9: Movicals

2011-02-07T21:03:00.000-08:00

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The Glamorous Life - Judy Kahan, A Little Night Music (Sony)
What Was a Woman to Do - Joanna Gleason, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Ghostlight)
Life With Harold - Emily Skinner, The Full Monty [Original Broad (RCA)
The Boy Next Door - Judy Garland, Meet Me in St. Louis [Rhino] (Turner)
I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore - Maurice Chevalier, Gigi [Rhino] (Turner)
True Love - Melissa Errico, Daniel McDonal, High Society [Original Broadway Cast] (DRG)
Trust Me - Tony Roberts/Julie Andrews, Victor/Victoria [Original Cast] (Decca Broadway)
Forget About the Boy - Sutton Foster, Thoroughly Modern Millie (RCA Victor Broadway)
Good Morning Baltimore - Nikki Blonsky, Hairspray [2007 Soundtrack] (Universal Classics)
What You Want - Legally Blonde (Original Broad, Legally Blonde (Original Broad ()
Always A Woman - Marc Kudisch and Men's Ensemble, 9 To 5 - The Musical (Original Cast Recording) (Dolly Records)
The Fall - Cheyenne Jackson, Company, Xanadu on Broadway (PS Classics)
Suddenly Seymour - Hunter Foster; Kerry Butler; Trisha Jeffrey, Little Shop of Horrors [2003 Cast] (DRG)
Knights Of The Round Table - Cast, Spamalot (Decca)
You Never Say Good Luck on Opening Night - Cast, The Producers [2005 Soundtrack] (Sony)
Shine - Cast, Billy Elliot [Original London Cast] (Decca Broadway)

Feb 2: William Finn

2011-02-02T08:22:00.000-08:00

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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)

Spring Awakening comments

2011-01-27T22:17:00.000-08:00

Over dinner, my darling hubby asked me if I'd read the letters section of the newspaper. He pointed out to me a letter written by one of the patrons last week Wednesday. He encouraged me to write a response, so I did.

Here's the full text of the Forbidden Broadway skit, with apologies and kudos to author Gerard Alessandrini.

(A couple gets to the theater right before showtime to discover they're sitting on stage - on opposite sides of the stage to be precise. They agree to kibbutz via cell phone.)

WOMAN
Spring Awakening - sounds like a nice Easter pageant.

WENDELA (to the tune of Mama Who Bore Me)
Mama who bore me
Mama my booby
I need a training bra and a maxi pad
Mama please give me sex education
No sleep for this horny undregrad

WOMAN
Hold it!
(sung to the tune of D'Lovely by Cole Porter)
Her hair's a mess, her dress is sheer

MAN (they continue either solo or together)
The lighting's dim and it's so unclear
It's depressing, it's demented, it's disgusting!
I understand that art should hurt,
But can't they launder her undershirt?
It's depressing, it's demented, it's disgusting!
You can tell at first sight it's a hell ride we're in for tonight
You can hear queries behind you murmuring low
Get up and go!
Please be kind my dainty dish and let's vamoose at the intermish,
It's depressing, it's demented, it's degenerate, it's delerium, it's deluded, it's degrading, it's de worst, it's disgusting!

WENDELA
Wait a minute!
I feel the sudden urge to say
You folks don't understand the arts today
So control your desire to curse,
I fear other shows are worse
The show you fogies want to see
Is Rodgers-Hammersteiny history
So get hip and train your brain,
I'll repeat the refrain and drive you insane

Mama who bore me
Mama my booby
Mama you're totally F(BEEP)'d - take it away!

If you were hip you'd get a grip
We're past the era of censorship
We're da big hit, we're da cash cow, we're da Tony
We search the soul of tortured teens and do a couple of rock routines
We're pretentious, we're contentious, YOU'RE disgusting!

COUPLE
shall we calmly resign to pay big bucks at Young Frankenstein?
But at $450 a seat, we'd rather eat!

WENDELA
The problem's you

COUPLE
No it's you too

WENDELA
You mean the band?

COUPLE
No we mean your crew
You're depressing! You're demented!

WENDELA
You're d'outta date

COUPLE
You're the one we hate!
Well she's gone now and we're on now finally it's d'lovely

The only thing I don't like about that skit is that Wendela goes off stage. Okay, this was the very first part of the Forbidden Broadway Rude Awakening show, and the couple then went on to do the Forbidden Broadway theme etc, that's why "we're on now." But I do wish Wendela had a better exit than storming off in anger.

To be honest, my tastes run more toward Into The Woods, but there are days when Spring Awakening is what I want to hear on my little music drive. I was happy to plop down money to see it - again. (Heck, hubby almost drove over to Seattle last season to see it again.) The cast was GREAT, musical direction outstanding (love ya, Kasey! ;-) and the story well told.

There was definitely a lack of energy though - from the AUDIENCE. I believe the cast gave us their all, but I feel we absorbed it stoically instead of the real give-and-take of a normal live performance. Like, it was so out of our collective comfort zone that we couldn't process it. Or maybe it's because the INB is so huge, the intimacies of a show like Spring Awakening and even Avenue Q get lost there. (On second thought, that letter showed that the visuals of the "intimacy" didn't get lost at all. ;-)

Our first time at Spring Awakening can never be matched, because it was the final performance of Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff. Their families were in the audience, and any fan who could get their hands on tickets was there. We stumbled into it, having gotten our restricted-view seats at TKTS hours before. Wendela stood on the chair to begin, and the house went WILD. Then after the song Totally F*d, the stage manager let the applause go on... and on... and on... and on... It must have been five minutes of insane ovation from the house, with the actors stuck in their poses. I think I saw tears drip from Lea Michele, trying to hide her face with her hair, and Otto would sneak a peak out to the audience like, "You're STILL cheering?!?!" So needless to say, it was an appreciative crowd.

I hope that Spokane is growing a little from this. Best of Broadway has thrown a little risk into their lineup. Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre is also getting a little more off-the-beaten-path with at least one choice per season. And that's the way a season should be - the crowd pleasers mixed with some new energy.

Calendar of Musical Theatre Events

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Spokane Civic Theatre presents The 25th Annual Putnam Spelling Bee from Jan 28 through Feb 20 at Firth Chew Theatre - http://www.spokanecivictheatre.com/
Spokane Symphony Orchestra presents Rodgers and Hammerstein Celebration from Feb 5 only at The Fox, Martin Woldson Theater - http://www.spokanesymphony.org
Best of Broadway presents Legally Blonde from Feb 10 through Feb 13 at INB Performing Arts Center - http://bestofbroadwayspokane.com
Spokane Civic Theatre presents Nunsense from Feb 18 through Mar 6 at Main Stage - http://www.spokanecivictheatre.com/
Washington State Community Theater Association presents Kaleidoscope Festival from Mar 11 through Mar 13 at Spokane Civic Theatre Main Stage - http://www.spokanecivictheatre.com/
Lake City Playhouse presents And The World Goes Round from Mar 11 through Mar 12 at Lake City Playhouse - http://lakecityplayhouse.org
Best of Broadway presents Mark Twain Tonight! from Mar 12 only at INB Performing Arts Center - http://bestofbroadwayspokane.com
Best of Broadway presents 9 to 5 from Mar 24 through Mar 27 at INB Performing Arts Center - http://bestofbroadwayspokane.com
Best of Broadway presents Cats from Apr 23 through Apr 24 at INB Performing Arts Center - http://bestofbroadwayspokane.com
Best of Broadway presents Wicked from May 18 through May 29 at INB Performing Arts Center - http://bestofbroadwayspokane.com
Spokane Civic Theatre presents The Full Monty from May 20 through Jun 29 at Main Stage - http://www.spokanecivictheatre.com/
Lake City Playhouse presents Urinetown from May 27 through Jun 19 at Lake City Playhouse - http://lakecityplayhouse.org
Spokane Children's Theatre presents Willy Wonka from Feb 5 through Jan 20 at SCC Lair Auditorium - http://www.spokanechildrenstheatre.org

Jan 26: Winter/Spring Preview

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The Candyman - Stephen F. Schmidt, Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka
I Want It Now - Cast, Roald Dahl's Willy Wonka
Pandemonium - Company; Jose Llana, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Sh-K-Boom)
The I Love You Song - Baskin, Derrick; Celia Keenan-Bolger; Howard, Lisa, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Sh-K-Boom)
Coffee in a Cardboard Cup - Cast, And the World Goes 'Round (RCA)
Run, Freedom, Run! - Hunter Foster; Ken Jennings; Lawrence Street; Megan Lawrence; Rachel Coloff; Rick Crom; Spencer Lemon Kayden; Victor W. Hawks, Urinetown (RCA)
Blood In The Water - Legally Blonde (Original Broadway Cast), Legally Blonde (Original Broadway Cast)
Shine Like The Sun - Megan Hilty, Stephanie J. Block, Allison Janney and Ensemble, 9 To 5 - The Musical (Original Cast Recording)
Prologue: Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats - Company, Cats [Original Broadway Cast] Disc 1
Nunsense is Habit FormingNunsense
Man - John Conlee; Kimberly Grigsby; Patrick Wilson; Ted Sperling, The Full Monty [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
What Is This Feeling? - Idina Menzel; Kristin Chenoweth, Wicked (Decca)
One Short Day - Idina Menzel; Kristin Chenoweth, Wicked (Decca)

Jan 19: Nerds & Misfits

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We're A Couple Of Misfits - Billie Mae Richards, Paul Soles, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (MCA Special Products)
I'm Not That Smart - Jesse Tyler Ferguson, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight)
A Stud and a Babe - Jennifer Simard/Robert Roznowski, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (Varese Sarabande)
Belle - Susan Egan, Cast, Beauty and the Beast [Original Broadway Cast Recording] [Special Edition] (Universal)
Part of Your World - Jodi Benson, The Little Mermaid [Original Soundtrack] (Disney)
Waiting for Life - La Chanze; The Storytellers, Once on This Island [RCA] (RCA)
Grizabella the Glamour Cat - Elaine Paige, Original London Cast, Cats [Original London Cast] (Polydor Import)
Anyone Can Whistle - Lee Remick, Anyone Can Whistle [Original Broadway Cast] [Bonus Tracks] (Sony Classical)
Maria - Elizabeth Howell; Karen Shepard; Muriel O'Malley; Patricia Neway, The Sound of Music [Original Broadway Cast] [Bonus Tracks] (Sony BMG)
All That's Known - Jonathan Groff, Spring Awakening (Decca)
A Quiet Night At Home - Keili Lefkovitz, Bare the Album - Act 1 (Bare)
Superboy and the Invisible Girl - Aaron Tveit; Alice Ripley; Jennifer Damiano, Next To Normal [Original Broadway Cast Recording] Disc 1 (Ghostlight)
Why We Like Spelling - Spellers, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight)
Becoming a Man - Soundtrack, 13 [Original Cast] (Ghostlight)
The Wizard and I - Idina Menzel, Wicked (Decca)

Jan 12: For King & Mandela

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The Slice - Alan Weeks; Clifford Allen; Garrett Morris; Ken Scott; Leslie Uggams; Robert Hooks, Hallelujah, Baby! (Sony Classical)
That's Not The Way We Do Things - Original Off-Broadway Cast, The Scottsboro Boys (Jay Records)
The Lynching Blues - Ann Duquesnay/Baakari Wilder/Jeffrey Wright, Bring in 'da Noise Bring in 'da Funk (RCA Victor Broadway)
Nelson Mandela and Water Dance (Omm Ohh Ho la la (Reprise) - GumBoots, Gum Boots (RCA)
Stand and Fight - Mbongeni Ngema, Sarafina! [Original Cast Recording] (RCA)
One by One - Cast, The Lion King [Original Broadway Cast] (Disney)
African Homeland - Renee Elise Goldberry, LaChanze, Cast, The Color Purple [Original Broadway Cast] (Angel)
Som'thin' from Nuthin'/Circle Stomp - Ann Duquesnay/Jeffrey Wright, Bring in 'da Noise Bring in 'da Funk (RCA Victor Broadway)
till We Reach That Day - Mary Bond Davis; Brian Stokes Mitchell, Ragtime [Original Cast Recording - RCA] (BMG)
I Know Where I've Been - Queen Latifah, Hairspray [2007 Soundtrack] (Universal Classics)
Mr. Stopnick and Emmie - Anika Noni Rose, Tonya Pinkins, Caroline, or Change (Original Broadway Cast) Disc 2 (Hollywood Records)
Kitchen Fight - Anika Noni Rose, Tonya Pinkins, Caroline, or Change (Original Broadway Cast) Disc 2 (Hollywood Records)
Down Home - Cleavon Little; Joyce Brown; Novella Nelson, Purlie (RCA Victor Broadway)
Prelude - Riot At Edmund Pettus Bridge - Ensemble, King A Musical Testimony (Universal International)
How Long, Not Long - Simon Estes, Edmund Hockridge, Ensemble, King A Musical Testimony (Universal International)

Jan. 13: For King & Mandela

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The Slice - Alan Weeks; Clifford Allen; Garrett Morris; Ken Scott; Leslie Uggams; Robert Hooks, Hallelujah, Baby! (Sony Classical)
That's Not The Way We Do Things - Original Off-Broadway Cast, The Scottsboro Boys (Jay Records)
The Lynching Blues - Ann Duquesnay/Baakari Wilder/Jeffrey Wright, Bring in 'da Noise Bring in 'da Funk (RCA Victor Broadway)
Nelson Mandela and Water Dance (Omm Ohh Ho la la (Reprise) - GumBoots, Gum Boots (RCA)
Stand and Fight - Mbongeni Ngema, Sarafina! [Original Cast Recording] (RCA)
One by One - Cast, The Lion King [Original Broadway Cast] (Disney)
African Homeland - Renee Elise Goldberry, LaChanze, Cast, The Color Purple [Original Broadway Cast] (Angel)
Som'thin' from Nuthin'/Circle Stomp - Ann Duquesnay/Jeffrey Wright, Bring in 'da Noise Bring in 'da Funk (RCA Victor Broadway)
till We Reach That Day - Mary Bond Davis; Brian Stokes Mitchell, Ragtime [Original Cast Recording - RCA] (BMG)
I Know Where I've Been - Queen Latifah, Hairspray [2007 Soundtrack] (Universal Classics)
Mr. Stopnick and Emmie - Anika Noni Rose, Tonya Pinkins, Caroline, or Change (Original Broadway Cast) Disc 2 (Hollywood Records)
Kitchen Fight - Anika Noni Rose, Tonya Pinkins, Caroline, or Change (Original Broadway Cast) Disc 2 (Hollywood Records)
Down Home - Cleavon Little; Joyce Brown; Novella Nelson, Purlie (RCA Victor Broadway)
Prelude - Riot At Edmund Pettus Bridge - Ensemble, King (Polygram Records)
How Long, Not Long - Simon Estes, Edmund Hockridge, Ensemble, King (Universal International)

Jan. 5: Rock Musicals

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Hair - Gavin Creel, Will Swenson, Hair [2009 Broadway Revival Cast] (Razor & Tie)
Summer, Summer - Various Artists, Two Gentlemen Of Verona (Universal Classics Group)
The Now Generation - Leland Palmer; Danny Apolinar; Michael Valenti; John Kuhner; Charles Schneider, Your Own Thing (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording) (BMG)
Go to the Mirror / Listening to You - Cast, The Who's Tommy [Original Cast Recording] Disc 2 (RCA Victor)
Everything's Alright - Yvonne Elliman, Murray Head, Ian Gillan, Jesus Christ Superstar [MCA Original Cast Recording] Disc 1 (Decca)
Hot Patootie - Meat Loaf, Rocky Horror Picture Show (Rhino / Wea)
Tear Me Down - Cheater/John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig & the Angry Inch [Origi (Atlantic)
Bright Lights, Big City - (Tad, Jamie, Coke Girl, Chorus), Bright Lights, Big City [Original Cast] (Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight)
Rent - Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Rent [Original Broadway Cast] Disc 1 ()
Fortune Favors the Brave - Adam Pascal, Aida (Disney)
Bring The Future Faster - Original Cast Recording, Rooms: A Rock Romance [Original Off Broadway Cast Recording] (Time/Life Music)
The Bitch of Living - Spring Awakening, Spring Awakening (Decca)
Epiphany - Cast Recording, Bare the Album - Act 1 (Bare)
Prologue (We Might Play All Night) - Passing Strange Original Broadway Cast, Passing Strange (Ghostlight)
Wish I Were Here - Alice Ripley, Next To Normal [Original Broadway Cast Recording] Disc 2 (Ghostlight)
21 Guns - Green Day, American Idiot [OBC] (Reprise Records)

Dec. 29: New Year's Time

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By the way, I'm at First Night Spokane on Friday night, being Ethel Merman in the Ignite community theatre's "Hysterical Squares" 7-9 p.m. at the library. See you there!

I'm Marching Along With Time - Ethel Merman, American Legends Series: You're the Top (Pro-Arte Records)
Timeless To Me - John Travolta, Christopher Walken, Hairspray (Movie) (New Line Records)
Where Are the Snows? - Mary Martin; Robert Preston, I Do! I Do! (RCA)
As on Through the Seasons We Sail - Don Ameche; Hildegarde Neff, Silk Stockings [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
Among My Yesterdays [From the Happy Time] - Barbara Cook, Barbara Cook's Broadway! (DRG)
All the Wasted Time [Parade] - Brent Carver; Carolee Carmello, Broadway in Love (RCA)
In Whatever Time We Have [Children of Eden] - Jennifer Paz, Jose Llanas, Awakening (Lml Music)
My Time of Day - Peter Gallagher, Guys and Dolls [1992 Broadway Revival Cast] (RCA Victor)
Seasons of Love - Original Broadway Cast, Rent [Original Broadway Cast] Disc 2 (Dreamworks)
The Time Warp [The Rocky Horror Picture Show] - Richard O'Brien, Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection: The Greatest Novelty Records of All Ti (Rhino/WEA)
The Schmuel Song - Norbert Leo Butz, The Last Five Years (Image)
Time - Malcolm Gets; Norm Lewis, A New Brain (RCA Victor Records)
Time and Music - Keith Byron Kirk; Malcolm Gets, A New Brain (RCA Victor Records)
The Perfect Year [From the Musical Sunset Boulevard] - Elaine Paige, Sweet Memories Disc 1 (Music Club Records)
This Time Next Year - Original Los Angeles Cast, Sunset Boulevard [Original Los Angeles Cast] Disc 1 (Decca Broadway)
The Next New Year - Cast of Cabaret with Susan Egan, Carols For A Cure 1999 (Rock-It Science)
Auld Lang Syne - Original Los Angeles Cast, Sunset Boulevard [Original Los Angeles Cast] Disc 1 (Decca Broadway)

Dec. 22: Broadway & Hollywood Christmas Tunes

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Carol of the Bells - Maria Cominis, Danny Gurwin, Sally Wilfert, A Christmas Survival Guide (Original Cast Record)
12 Days To Christmas - Cast, She Loves Me [1993 Broadway Revival Cast] (Varese Sarabande)
We Need a Little Christmas [Ma - Angela Lansbury; Jane Connell;, A Child's Celebration of Broad (Sony Classical)
A Simple Christmas Memory (It's a Wonderful Life musical) - Joe Machota, Tina Maddigan, Cast of Mamma Mia, Carols For A Cure 2001 (Rock-It Science)
Christmas Eve [From She Loves - Yvette Lawrence, Broadway Christmas (MCA Special Products)
Lovers on Christmas Eve - Joanna Gleason, James Naughton, I Love My Wife [Orig. Cast] (Disques Swing)
Silver Bells - Bob Hope Marilyn Maxwell, Lemon Drop Kid (Bci / Eclipse)
Yuletide, Park Avenue - Betty Garrett/Vocal Septet, Call Me Mister (Original Cast Members) (Jasmine Music)
Pine cones and holly berries - Laurence Naismith, Janis Paige, Here's Love (Sony Classical)
Christmas Time Is Here - Vince Guaraldi, A Charlie Brown Christmas (Fantasy)
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Judy Garland, Meet Me in St. Louis [Rhino] (Turner)
Christmas Bells - Cast, Rent (1996 Original Broadway Cast) (DreamWorks)
Hard Candy Christmas - Pamela Blair, Donna King, Louise Quick-Bowen, Lisa Brown, Becky Galke, Jan Merchant, Carol Chambers, Marta Sanders, De ra Zalking, Joan Ellis, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas [Original Cast] (MCA)
Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher - Cast, Billy Elliot: The Musical (Decca Broadway)
Mister Grinch - Thurl Ravenscroft, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (Rhino)
Turkey Lurkey Time - Cast, Promises, Promises [2010 Broadway Revival Cast] (Sony Masterworks)
The Twelve Steps Of Christmas - Janet Metz, A Christmas Survival Guide (Original Cast Record)
Christmas Day - Edward Winter; Julane Stites; Kay Oslin; Neil Jones; Rita O'Connor, Promises, Promises [EMI/ Rykodisc] (Rykodisc)
White Christmas - Bing Crosby, Holiday Inn (MCA Special Products)

Dec. 15: Carols for a Cure 2010

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Each year, the creative minds behind the Carols for a Cure series amaze me. The styles are as varied as the musical genres represented on Broadway. Actually, one of the great tracks that didn't make this year's show is the indie-rock What Child Is This from Next To Normal's real-life husband-wife team of Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley. Maybe next year's show will feature it and the similar-vein music from the Spring Awakening cast. Happy Holidays!
The website is BroadwsayCares.com. Besides these CDs, they have solo albums from Broadway artists, DVDs of shows, and a ton of really neat gifts, including the snowglobes.

Pat-a-Pan - Cast of Mary Poppins, Broadway's Carols for a Cure Vol. 12 - 2010
The Holly And The Ivy - Cast of AIDA, Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols For A Cure Volume 6 (Rock-It Science)
God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen - Cast of Dracula, Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols For A Cure Volume 6 (Rock-It Science)
In The Bleak Midwinter - Cast of The Producers, Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols For A Cure Volume 7 (Rock-It Science)
O Tannenbaum - Young Frankenstein, Carols for a Cure 10 2008 (Rock-It Science)
Jul, Jul, Stradlande Jul (Wonderful Peace) - Cast of A Little Night Music with Bernadette Peters, Broadway's Carols for a Cure Vol. 12 - 2010 (Rock-It Science)
Tu Scendi d'alle Stelle - Cast of Jersey Boys, Broadway's Carols for a Cure V (Rock-It Science)
Carol of the Bells - Lion King, Carols for a Cure 10 2008 (Rock-It Science)
Los Peces en el Rio - In the Heights, Carols for a Cure 10 2008 (Rock-It Science)
¡Vengan! - Cast of In The Heights, Broadway's Carols for a Cure Vol. 12 - 2010 (Rock-It Science)
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We Need a Little Christmas/The Best of Times - Cast of La Cage Au Folles with Kelsey Grammer, Broadway's Carols for a Cure Vol. 12 - 2010 (Rock-It Science)
O Little Town of Bethlehem - Cast of Spamalot, Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols for a Cure, Vol. 8 Disc 2 (Rock-It Science)
Joy to the World - Cast of My Fair Lady, Broadway's Carols for a Cure Vol. 12 - 2010 (Rock-It Science)
What I Don't Want For Christmas - Rick Crom, Carols For A Cure 2002 (Rock-It Science)
Mary's Lullaby - Cast of Wicked - 1st Ntl Tour, Carols for a Cure 9 2007 (Rock-It Science)
The Colors Of Christmas - Cast of Kiss Me Kate, Carols For A Cure 2000 (Rock-It Science)
White Christmas - Bernadette Peters, Carols For A Cure 1999 (Rock-It Science)

Dec. 8: Chanukah

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Shalom - Mimi Benzell; Robert Weede, Hebrew National Kosher Classics (RCA)
Miracle of Miracles - John Cariani, Fiddler on the Roof [2004 Broadway Revival Cast] (PS Classics)
Milk and Honey/Independence Day Hora - Jerry Herman, Milk and Honey [Bonus Track] (DRG)
Shabbos - Jacqueline Antaramian, Adam Heller, The Immigrant: A New American Musical
Wedding - Original Broadway Cast, The Grand Tour
Jewish Wedding Song (Mazel Tov) - Julie Andrews, Thoroughly Modern Millie [film]
Year of the Child - Cast, Falsettoland [Original Off-Broadway Cast]
If That's What It Is - Soundtrack, 13 [Original Cast]
Jason's Bar Mitzvah - Cast, Falsettoland [Original Off-Broadway Cast] (DRG)
Today You Are a Man - Cast, Wedding Singer
You Won't Succeed on Broadway - David Hyde Pierce, Monty Python's Spamalot
Don't Forget the Pepper - Debie Gravitte, The Odd Potato
The Chanukah Party - , Caroline, or Change (Original Broadway Cast) Disc 2 (Hollywood Records)
The Dreidel Song - Scott Wise, The Odd Potato
My Mother's Menorah - Judy Kaye, The Odd Potato
Light One Candle - Cast of Fiddler On The Roof, Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols For A Cure Volume 7 (Rock-It Science)
We Are Lights - Cast of Wicked, Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols For A Cure Volume 7 (Rock-It Science)
The Blessing Of The Candles - Phyllis Newman, Carols For A Cure 2002 (Rock-It Science)
Shalom Rav - Cast of Mamma Mia, Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols For A Cure Volume 6 (Rock-It Science)

Dec. 1: Snow

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Marshmallow World - Rockettes, Radio City Christmas Spectacular (Sony)
Winter Wonderland/Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Bette Midler, Cool Yule (Columbia)
Snow - Crosby, Bing & Danny Kaye, White Christmas (Universal)
Sleigh Ride - Jennifer Simard, Casey Nicholaw, Valierie Wright, A Christmas Survival Guide
Jingle Bells - Cast of Wicked, Carols for a Cure 9 2007 (Rock-It Science)
Here's Where It Begins - , The Story of My Life [Original Broadway Cast] (Ps Classics)
Angels in the Snow - , The Story of My Life [Original Broadway Cast]
Snow Song (Striking 12) - Cast of Light In The Piazza, Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols For A Cure Volume 7 (Rock-It Science)
The More It Snows (Tiddely-Pom) - Jim Cummings, Piglet's Big Movie
Ice - Ralph Blane, Meet Me in St. Louis [Original Broadway Cast]
Slippin' On the Ice - Animaniacs,
Baby It's Cold Outside - Frank Loesser, Frank Sings Loesser
Frosty The Snowman - Gene Autry, Christmas For Children
The Snowman's Got a Sweetheart - Sammy Fain, Sammy Sings Fain...Again (Koch International)
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm - Anastasia Barzee; Brian d'Arcy James; Ensemble; Jeffry Denman; Karen Morrow; Meredith Patterson, White Christmas [Original Studio Cast] (Ghostlight)
I Never Has Seen Snow - Audra McDonald, How Glory Goes (Elektra/Asylum)
Winter Was Warm - Victoria Clark,
A Winter's Tale - Elaine Paige, Christmas (Rhino/WEA)
Cold - , Whistle Down the Wind [Original Cast Recording] Disc 1 (Polydor)
Steam Heat - ,

Nov. 24: The Immigrant Experience

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Melt Us - Bernie West; Betty Oakes; David Thomas; Mort Marshall; Ray Bolger, All American [Original Cast] (Sony Classical)
Lady's Maid - Cast, Titanic: A New Musical (RCA)
A Hundred Million Miracles - Lea Salonga, Flower Drum Song [2002 Broadway Revival Cast] (DRG)
Simply Free - Adam Heller, The Immigrant: A New American Musical (Ghostlight)
Lift the Wings - Aine Ui Cheallaigh, Riverdance (Decca U.S.)
Wayfaring Stranger - Traditional, Tintypes (DRG)
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor - Allyn McLerie, Miss Liberty (Sony Classical)
Chop Suey - Juanita Hall; Patrick Adairte, Flower Drum Song [Original Broadway Cast] (Columbia)
Thanksgiving / Family Traditions - Fay Ann Lee; Paolo Montalban; Christine Toy Johnson; Mimosa, Heading East - Premier Cast Recording (DINK RECORDS)
That's America - Becca Daniels Noyes, David Holloway, Max Quinlan, The Christmas Schooner (Louisa May Alleycat Music)
Brand New World - Julia Migenes, Josh Blake, Rags (Columbia)
Pacienca y Fe (Patience and Faith) - Olga Merediz, Company, In the Heights (Ghostlight)
America - Rita Moreno; George Chakiris, West Side Story [Expanded Original Soundtrack] (Sony Classical/Legacy)

Nov. 17 Coming Soon

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Nov. 10: Soldiering On

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Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning [From This Is the Army] - Irving Berlin, American Musical Theater: Shows, Songs and Stars, Vol. 2 (Smithsonian Collection)
This Is the Army Mr. Jones - Company; Cpl. Wm Roerich; Henry Jones; Sydney Robin, This Is the Army [Original Broadway Cast] (Howards International)
That's What the Well-Dressed Man in Harlem Will Wear - Cross, Pvt. James, This Is the Army [Original Broadway Cast]
The Army's Made a Man Out of Me - All-Soldier Orchestra, This is the Army (Original All-Soldier Cast); Call Me Mister (Original Cast Members) (Jasmine Records)
How About a Cheer for the Navy - [entire Company], This Is the Army [Original Broadway Cast] (Howards International)
The Navy Gets The Gravy But The Army Gets The Beans - Jerry Lewis, At War With The Army (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet [From Broadway Rhythm] - MGM Studio Chorus/Nancy Walker/Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Somewhere Over the Rainbow: The Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals Disc 1
Join the Waves - Betty Hutton,
The Sailor of My Dreams - Bernadette Peters, Dames at Sea [Original Cast] (That's Entertainment)
I'm in Love with a Soldier Boy - Dyan McBride, Something for the Boys [1997 Cast] (Original Cast Record)
I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen - All-Soldier Orchestra; Earl Oxford; Soldier Chorus, This is the Army (Original All-Soldier Cast); Call Me Mister (Original Cast Members) (Jasmine Records)
Something For The Boys - Ethel Merman, I Get A Kick Out Of You
Tomorrow You Belong To Uncle Sammy - Cass Daley,
They're Either Too Young Or Too Old - Bette Davis,
I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now (Ziegfeld Follies of 1919) - Eddie Cantor, The Ultimate Irving Berlin, Vol. 2 (Pearl)
What Can You Do with a General? - Brian d'Arcy James; Jeffry Denman; Karen Morrow, White Christmas [Original Studio Cast] (Ghostlight)
No Goodbyes - Maxene Andrews/Patty Andrews, Over Here!
Some Other Time - Adolph Green; Betty Comden; Cris Alexander; Nancy Walker, On the Town [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony Classical)

Nov. 3: To Life!

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To Life - Chaim Topol; Maurice Lane; Paul Whitsun-Jones; Villagers, Fiddler on the Roof [Original London Cast] [Bonus Tracks] (Sony Classical)
I Got Life - Gavin Creel, Hair [2009 Broadway Revival Cast] (Razor & Tie)
Don't Rain on My Parade - Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl [Original Soundtrack] (Columbia)
Everybody Says Don't - Harry Guardino, Anyone Can Whistle [Original Broadway Cast] [Bonus Tracks] (Sony Classical)
I'll Be Here Tommorrow - Joel Grey, The Grand Tour
Before the Parade Passes By - Carol Channing, Celebrate Broadway, Vol. 1: Sing Happy
Open a New Window [From Mame] - Angela Lansbury, Broadway Showstoppers, Vol. 1 (Sony Music Distribution)
The Best of Times - George Hearn/Elizabeth Parrish/Ensemble, La Cage aux Folles [Original Cast]
Hand Me the Wine and the Dice - Kathleen Rowe McAllen, Aspects of Love [Original London Cast] Disc 2 (Polydor)
I'm Goin' to Live Anyhow, 'Til I Die - Lynne Thigpen, Tintypes
No Time At All - Irene Ryan, Pippin OBC (Decca)
Who Am I? - Linda Eder, Peter Pan [2005 Studio Cast] (Koch International)
Secret O' Life - Liz Callaway, Passage of Time (PS Classics)
Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries (Reprise) - Valarie Pettiford, Fosse [Original Broadway Cast]
For Now - Ann Harada; Jennifer Barnhart; John Tartaglia; Jordan Gelber; Natalie Venetia Belcon; Rick Lyon; Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Avenue Q (BMG)

Pledge Drive

2010-11-03T09:05:00.000-07:00

Thank you to everyone who called in a pledge of financial support for Spokane Public Radio!

Oct. 13: Pirrrrrates!

2010-10-13T08:17:00.000-07:00

Talk like a Pirate Day was a full month ago, and Disney's Pirates OTC #4 isn't coming 'til next spring, so why pirates NOW? Because of Spokane Children's Theatre's How I Became a Pirate over at the Masonic Center. Ahoy thar! Listen through PRX

Pour, O Pour the Pirate Sherry - Kevin Kline/Rex Smith/Stephan Hanan, The Pirates of Penzance [Original Broadway Cast] Disc 1 ()
Oh, Better Far to Live and Die - Kevin Kline, The Pirates of Penzance [Original Broadway Cast] Disc 2 (Elektra/Asylum)
History of the Pirate - Judy Garland, The Pirate (Sony)
Mack The Black - Judy Garland, The Pirate (Sony)
Treasure Island - Robert Newton, Treasure Island ()
Talk Like a Pirate - Mary Hollis Inboden, How I Became a Pirate ()
The Song of the Pirates - Cast, An Awfully Big Adventure: The Best of Peter Pan, 1904-96 ()
Pirate Song - Daniel Narducci, Peter Pan [2005 Studio Cast] ()
Pirate Song - Moose Charlap, Peter Pan [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
A Pirate's Life - Disney, Peter Pan [Disney Soundtrack] (Disney)
Song of the Pirates /The Elegant Captain Hook - Gregory Jbara; Lee Wilkof, Musical Adventures of Peter Pan ()
The Plank - Cast, Peter Pan [Original 1950 Broadway Cast] (Varese Sarabande)
Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me) (Disneyland) - Mellomen, The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song Disc 3 (Disney)
Professional Pirate - Tim Curry, Muppets Treasure Island ()
Batten Down the Hatches - Original Cast, How I Became A Pirate! ()
Green Teeth - Original Cast, How I Became A Pirate! ()
Don't Shake Hands with a One-Eyed Pirate - Gunnar Madsen, Ants in My Pants (G-spot)
The Pirate Song - Ray Stevens, #1 With a Bullet ()
With Cat-Like Tread, upon Our Prey We Steal - Pirates and Police and Hanan, Stephan, The Pirates of Penzance [Original Broadway Cast] Disc 2 (Elektra / Wea)
Pirate Jenny - Ellen Greene, The Threepenny Opera ()
Hoist the Colours - Cast, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End ()

Oct. 6: South Pacific

2010-10-06T08:28:00.000-07:00

Okay, can I be honest and say that the last 24 hours have been hell? Sorry that it spilled into today's show. My announcing tracks got out-of-order (Pauolo Szot is NOT Mandy Patinkin!!!), nobody looked at my playlist when choosing the music for Jim's lovely interview with David Pittsinger a few minutes before (of ALL the Ezio Pinza songs they had to pick the same one?!) and I couldn't get my formatter to work. I think I'll crawl into a hole now....

Here's the information of what at least was supposed to play today, just not as pretty as I'd like. Audio on PRX

Twin Soliloquies Paige O'Hara, Justino Diaz South Pacific (First Complete Recording) Disc 1
A Cockeyed Optimist Paige O'Hara South Pacific (First Complete Recording) Disc 1
Some Enchanted Evening Paulo Szott South Pacific [2008 Broadway Cast]
Bloody Mary Company South Pacific [1967 Lincoln Center Cast]
Mary and Lootellan Pat Suzuki; Sean McDermott South Pacific (First Complete Recording) Disc 1
Bali Ha'i Juanita Hall South Pacific [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
My Girl Back Home Bill Lee South Pacific [1958 Film]
Bali Ha'i (Reprise) Eleanor Calbes South Pacific [1967 Lincoln Center Cast]
Younger than Springtime Mandy Patinkin The Sweetest Sounds (South Pacific operatic)
There Is Nothin' Like a Dame Robert Pastorelli, Men South Pacific [ABC Movie]
Wash That Man Right Outa … Florence Henderson South Pacific [1967 Lincoln Center Cast]
Hello, Is That a New American Song? - Brian Stokes Mitchell South Pacific in Concert from Carnegie Hall
A Wonderful Guy Mitzi Gaynor South Pacific [1958 Film]
Twin Soliloquies reprise Kelli O'Hara, Paulo Szott South Pacific [2008 Broadway Cast]
Happy Talk Lillias White South Pacific in Concert from Carnegie Hall
Got to Be Carefully Taught Jason Danieley South Pacific in Concert from Carnegie Hall
This Nearly Was Mine Ezio Pinza South Pacific [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
Honey Bun Mary Martin South Pacific [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
Finale Act II Alex de Castro; Alexio Barboza; Brian Stokes Mitchell South Pacific in Concert from Carnegie Hall

Sep 22: Fall 2010 Preview

2010-09-22T10:37:00.000-07:00

The problem with having a day job, a side business, an acting hobby, a family AND a radio show is that something falls through the cracks. I have been insanely busy this week and almost didn't get this show done in time 8-} I will put up links to these shows next week (fingers crossed). There are a few shows I SHOULD have mentioned with today's show, apologies to the following three groups:

Spokane Symphony is bringing to town an evening with Looney Tunes Music, Halloween weekend. This is at the Fox with a matinee on Sunday, costume contests included.

Lake City Playhouse is doing a holiday production of the ever-popular Taffetas pseudo-'50s girl group.

Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre will do a holiday production of Forever Plaid ("Plaid Tidings"), the pseudo-'50s boys group.
Starring: Jadd Davis, Robbie French, Andrew Ware Lewis, and Max Mendez
December 17th, 18th, and 19th at 7:30pm

Things I mentioned in today's show:

Evita, Lake City Playhouse
Going on now...

Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Spokane Civic Theatre
Starts this weekend...

South Pacific, Best of Broadway Series
Oct 6-9, 2010

Liza Minnelli, Best of Broadway Add-On
Fri., Oct. 15, 2010 8:00pm

Capitol Steps
Wed., Oct. 27, 2010 7:30pm

STOMP
Nov. 5-6, 2010
8:00pm

Playlist is here in the comments section

Sep 15: Bing Crosby

2010-09-15T08:14:00.001-07:00

True Love - Bing Crosby, High Society [film]
Bluebirds and the Blackbirds - Bing Crosby and the Rhythm Boys, King of Jazz
Just One More Chance - Bing Crosby, One More Chance
Please - Bing Crosby, Big Broadcast
At Your Command - Bing Crosby, I Surrender Dear
Where The Blue of the Night - Bing Crosby, Blue of the Night
We'll Make Hay While The Sun Shines - Bing Crosby, Going Hollywood
Moonstruck - Bing Crosby, College Humor
You're The Top - Bing Crosby; Ethel Merman, Anything Goes
Thanks/Buckin' the Wind - Bing Crosby; Nat Finston & Paramount Studio Orchestra, Star Spangled Rhythm [Smithsonian] Disc 1 (Smithsonian Collection)
Love in Bloom - Bing Crosby, Love in Bloom
Put It There Pal - Bing Crosby, Road to Utopia
Moonlight Becomes You - Bing Crosby, Road to Morocco
Swinging on a Star - Bing Crosby, Going My Way
Lazy - Bing Crosby; Bob Crosby & His Orchestra, Holiday Inn (Universal Special Products)
Moonburn - Bing Crosby, Anything Goes
Well Did You Evah - Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, High Society (Rhino)

Sep 8: School Daze

2010-09-09T12:22:00.001-07:00

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Three Little Maids from School Are We (The Mikado) - William Schwenk Gilbert, Topsy-Turvy (Sony Classical)
Second Grade - Marcus Allen Cooper, Personals (JAY)
Teaching Third Grade - Nancy Linari, Ruthless [Los Angeles Cast] (Colosseum)
Welcome to Kindergarten, Mrs. Johnson [A...My Name Is Alice] - Barbara Walsh; Heather MacRae, My Name Will Always Be Alice ()
The Best of All Possible Worlds - Deborah St.Darr; Lewis J. Stadlen; Mark Baker; Maureen Brennan; Sam Freed, Candide [1974 Broadway Revival Cast] Disc 1 ()
Nobody tells me How - Original Cast, Working [Original Cast Recording] ()
School Song - Animaniacs, Chalkboard Bungle ()
Silent E - Tom Lehrer, Tom Lehrer Revisited ()
Conjunction Junction - Jack Sheldon, Schoolhouse Rock ()
Yakko's World - , ()
Wakko Sings American Capitols - Jess Harnell, ()
ABC-DEF-GHI - Big Bird, Songs From The Street: 35 Years Of Music (Disk 1) ()
I'm Just a Bill - Jack Sheldon, Schoolhouse Rock ()
Amendment (Parody) - Jack Sheldon, Schoolhouse Rock ()
Yakko's Universe - Rob Paulsen, ()
Elements song - Tom Lehrer, ()
That's Mathematics - Tom Lehrer, ()
Inchworm - Danny Kaye, ()
What Do You Do With a B.A. in English? - John Tartaglia, Avenue Q (BMG)
Breathe - Mandy Gonzalez, In the Heights Disc 1 (Ghostlight)
Dear Old Shiz - Stephen Schwartz, Wicked (Decca)
Bull Dog [Yale College, 1911] - Thomas Hampson, Cole Porter: Night and Day ()
Grand Old Ivy - Robert Morse; Rudy Vallée, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [Original Cast] (RCA)
Bright College Days - Tom Lehrer, ()
I Wish I Could Go Back to College - John Tarteglia; Rick Lyon; Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Avenue Q (BMG)

Thoughts from Blanche DuBois

2010-09-01T11:32:00.000-07:00

Tennessee Williams's play A Streetcar Named Desire has been turned into a film (Marlon Brando, Vivian Leigh) and an opera (Frederika Von Stade). Soon, Ignite Community Theatre presents a reader's theatre presentation, and Blanche DuBois will be played by... me.

I've been spending a lot of time in Blanche's skin, and her desire for "magic" and "soft colors." She walks a delicate line between reality and the fantasy world of what SHOULD happen - her 'descent into madness' is her refusal to accept harsh reality.

Remember in the original book of the Wizard of Oz, to enter the Emerald City you had to put on green-tinted glasses. (They bring this back in Wicked, Elphie and Glinda wear green glasses with the other Ozians in "One Short Day.") I imagine Blanche has her own glasses on, with all the soft colors of the rainbow, and by the end she's reduced to a quivering mess when those virtual glasses are torn off.

There are so many characters that do their best to escape reality, or try to twist reality to fit their needs. I listened to Everything's Coming Up Roses from Gypsy today, and thought of Mama Rose, her first step into a similar form of madness, going to make one of her daughters a 'star' no matter the cost. At least she has a little redemption at the end, unlike Blanche.

I hope to see you at Streetcar Named Desire Sep. 10 & 12. Friday night at Gonzaga's Foley Library, Sunday afternoon at the Blue Door Theatre on Garland.

Sep 1: Labor Day

2010-09-01T11:31:00.000-07:00

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All the Live Long Day - Original Cast, Working [Original Cast Recording] ()
Nine to Five - Allison Janney, Megan Hilty, Charlie Pollock, Stephanie J. Block and Ensemble, 9 To 5 - The Musical (Original Cast Recording) (Dolly Records)
The Company Way - Gerry Vichi; Matthew Broderick, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [New Broadway Cast] (RCA)
What a Waste - Gregg Edelman; Ken Barnett; Ray Wills, Wonderful Town [2003 Broadway Revival Cast] ()
Miss Marmelstein - Barbra Streisand, I Can Get It For You Wholesale (Sony)
A Secretary Is Not a Toy - Company; Jonathan Freeman, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [New Broadway Cast] (RCA)
The Speed Test - Marc Kudisch, Sutton Foster, Anne L. Nathan, Thoroughly Modern Millie [OBC] (RCA)
Dentist - Steve Martin, Little Shop of Horrors [Original Soundtrack] (Geffen)
Barber's Song - Jamie Torcellini, Man of La Mancha [2002 Broadway Revival Cast] (RCA Victor Group)
The Contest - Joaquin Romaguera, Sweeney Todd [Original Broadway Cast] Disc 1 ()
Training Montage (The Train Must Be Fed) - Edward Earle; Elva Kellogg; Joseph Karnes; Judy Garland; Marjorie Main; Selena Royle; Virginia O'Brien, Harvey Girls (Soundtrack Factory)
It's An Art - Stephen Schwartz, Working revised ()
Ballad Of A Social Director - Sidney Armus, Wish You Were Here (Original Broadway Cast Recording) ()
A Mover's Life - Lenny Baker, Joanna Gleason, lene Graff, James Naughton, I Love My Wife [Orig. Cast] (Disques Swing)
The Mason (Demo) - Original Cast, Working [Original Cast Recording] (Varese Sarabande)
Something to Point To - Original Cast, Working [Original Cast Recording] (Varese Sarabande)

Aug 25: Sailing

2010-08-25T20:11:00.000-07:00

This show is available on the PRX website

A Whale of a Tale [From 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea] - Kirk Douglas, Classic Disney, Vol. 1 (Walt Disney/EMI)
Fathoms Below - Cast, The Little Mermaid [Original Broadway Cast] (Disney)
When Our Ship Comes Sailing In - Adam Arkin; Patrick Cassidy; Robert Westenberg, Oh, Kay! [Original Soundtrack] (Roxbury)
Sailing at Midnight - Philip Chaffin, Warm Spring Night (P.S. Classics)
Sail Away/In a Boat on the Lake With You - Graham Payn; Pat Kirkwood, Ace of Clubs (Bayview)
Sailing/Set Those Sails - Cast Recording, Make Me A Song (Ghostlight)
In the Same Boat Completed - Karen Ziemba, Cast, Curtains (Manhattan Records)
Cotton Blossom - Chorus, Show Boat [1962 Studio Cast] (Sony)
Coney Island Boat - Cast, By the Beautiful Sea (DRG)
Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat - Walter Bobbie, Guys and Dolls [1992 Broadway Revival Cast] (RCA Victor Broadway)
On a Slow Boat to China - Liz Callaway, Anywhere I Wander: Liz Callaway Sings Frank Loesser (Varese Sarabande)
Old Man River - Paul Robson, Showboat ()
Blow High, Blow Low - Jerry Orbach, Carousel [1965 Broadway Revival Cast] (RCA)
Muddy Water - Daniel Jenkins, Ron Richardson, Big River (Decca U.S.)
My Ship - Patti LuPone, Patti LuPone Live! (Highlights) (RCA)
A Ship Without a Sail - Dawn Upshaw, Sings Rodgers & Hart (Nonesuch)
No Moon - Cast, Titanic: A New Musical (RCA)
I Want to Row on the Crew/Sailor's Chantey - Dale Hensley; Larry Cahn; Leslie Feagan; Rex Everhart; Steve Steiner, Anything Goes [1987 Broadway Revival Cast] (RCA)
There'll Always Be A Lady Fair - Bryan Landrine, Michael B Wailing, Bruce Hubbard, Del-Bourree Bach, Anything Goes (First Recording of the Original 1934 Version) (EMI Classics)
There's No Cure Like Travel/Bon Voyage - Alec Timerman; Michele Pigliavento, Anything Goes [1987 Broadway Revival Cast] (RCA)

Aug 18: Scoundrels & Villains

2010-08-18T08:29:00.001-07:00

He's a Tramp - Peggy Lee, Lady and the Tramp [Disney] (Disney)
Public Enemy Number One - Cast, Anything Goes [1987 Broadway R (RCA Victor Broadway)
Sue Me - Faith Prince; Nathan Lane, Guys and Dolls [1992 Broadway Revival Cast] (RCA Victor)
A Powerful Thing - Gregory Harrison; Ronn Carroll, Steel Pier [Original Cast] (RCA)
Me and My Town - Angela Lansbury; Harvey Evans; Larry Roquemore; Sterling Clark; Tucker Smith, Anyone Can Whistle [Original Broadway Cast] [Bonus Tracks] (Sony Classical)
It Depends on What You Pay - Harvey Schmidt, The Fantasticks [2006 Off Broa (Ghostlight)
What's Wrong With That? - Cast, Rags ()
(The Legend Of) Miss Baltimore Crabs - Michelle Pfeiffer, Hairspray [2007 Soundtrack] ()
Those Were the Good Old Days - Ray Walston, Damn Yankees [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
We Can Do It - Matthew Broderick; Nathan Lane, The Producers [Original Broadway Cast Recording] (Sony Classical)
Easy Street - Barbara Ervin; Dorothy Loudon; Robert Fitch, Annie [Original Broadway Cast] [Remastered] ()
Bon Voyage - Lewis J. Stadlen, Candide [1974 Broadway Revival Cast] Disc 2 ()
Lonely Room - Oklahoma, ()
Crooked Path/Some Have, Some Have Not - Barre; David Elledge; Ensemble; Henry Grossman; Timothy Jerome; Walter Willison; William Ryall, Grand Hotel, The Musical ()
The Gun Song - Jonathan Hadary/Lyn Greene/Patrick Cassidy/Terry Mann, Assassins [1991 Original Cast Recording] ()
The Apple Tree (Forbidden Fruit) - Larry Byden, The Apple Tree [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
The Seven Deadly Virtues - Roddy McDowall, Camelot [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
Razzle Dazzle - James Naughton, Chicago [RCA] (RCA)

Aug. 11: Married

2010-08-15T13:47:00.000-07:00

Man and Wife [From I Do! I Do!] - Liz Larsen; Sal Viviano, Lost in Boston II Unsung Musicals (Colosseum)
Married - Lotte Lenya, Jack Gilford, Cabaret [Original Broadway Cast] [Bonus Tracks] (Sony)
Making a Home - , March of the Falsettos [Original Cast] (DRG)
Life With Harold - Emily Skinner, The Full Monty [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
Boys and Girls Like You and Me - Cast, State Fair [Original Broadway ()
You Rule My World - John Conlee; Kimberly Grigsby; Marcus Neville; Ted Sperling, The Full Monty [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
You Rule My World (Reprise) - Annie Golden; Emily Skinner; Kimberly Grigsby; Ted Sperling, The Full Monty [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
It's the Going Home Together - Priscilla Gillette; Stephen Douglass, Golden Apple [Original Cast] (RCA)
Near to You - Shannon Boliin; Stephen "Tebes" Douglass, Damn Yankees [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
He Plays the Violin - Betty Buckley; Rex Everhart; William Daniels, 1776 [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony Classical)
A Husband, a Wife - Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, Inka Dinka Doo [MCA] (Universal Special Products)
Guess We May as Well Stay Married Now [From I Do! I Do!] - Glory Crampton; Guy Haines, Lost in Boston II Unsung Musicals (Colosseum)
I Love My Wife - David Garrison, I Do I Do [1996 Cast] ()
Marriage Tango - Melissa Weil; Robert Roznowski, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (Varese Sarabande)
The Little Things You Do Together - Barbara Walsh, Kristin Huffman, Keith Buterbaugh, Raul Esparza, Cast, Company (Revival) ()
Sorry - Grateful - Keith Buterbaugh, Fred Rose, Bruce Sabeth, Company (Revival) (Nonesuch)
I Love My Wife - Lenny Baker, I Love My Wife [Orig. Cast] (DRG)
(You're) Timeless to Me - Dick Latessa; Harvey Fierstein, Hairspray [Original Cast] (Sony Classical)
Do You Love Me? - Chaim Topol; Miriam Karlin, Fiddler on the Roof [Original London Cast] [Bonus Tracks] ()

Aug. 4: I Love to Cry at Weddings

2010-08-03T23:51:00.000-07:00

I'll Marry the Very Next Man [From Fiorello] - Barbara Cook, Barbara Cook's Broadway! ()
Shopping Around (Remastered - 1996) - Sheila Bond, Wish You Were Here (Original Broadway Cast Recording) ()
Marry the Man Today - Faith Prince; Josie DeGuzman, Guys and Dolls [1992 Broadway Revival Cast] (RCA Victor)
Marry Me - Jason Alexander, Rink [Original Broadway Cast] (Jay)
I Chose Right - Todd Graff, Baby [Original Broadway Cast 1999] (Jay)
Being Alive - Dean Jones, Broadway Sings The Blues: The Party's Over
I Can Do Better Than That - Sherie René Scott, The Last Five Years (Image)
A Marriage Proposal - Cast, March of the Falsettos [Original Cast] ()
Grow Old With Me - Stephen Lynch, Wedding Singer (Sony)
Getting Married Today - Heather Laws, Company (Revival) (Nonesuch)
Get Me to the Church on Time - Stanley Holloway, My Fair Lady [Original Broadway Cast] [2002 Bonus Tracks] (Sony Mid-Price)
I'll Go Home With Bonnie Jean - Tommy Carlisle, Bridgadoon [ABC Television] ()
I Love to Cry at Weddings - Company, Sweet Charity [Original Broadway Cast #1] ()
Always a Bridesmaid - Melissa Weil, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change ()
All the Dearly Beloved/Together Forever/I Do! I Do! - Mary Martin; Robert Preston, I Do! I Do! (RCA)
One Hand, One Heart - Matt Cavenaugh; Josefina Scaglione, West Side Story (Sony Masterworks Broadway)

Auditions for Musicals

2010-07-21T17:33:00.000-07:00

Spokane Civic Theatre: West Side Story In Concert Fundraiser
Monday, July 26 at 6:30 P.M. at Civic's Main Stage, 1020 N Howard Street.
Director Yvonne A.K. Johnson is looking for 12-15 men and 12-15 women (appearing ages 16+) for a two-night special concert production on Oct. 29 & 30. (The role of Maria will be played by Andrea Dawson and the role of Tony by Michael Muzatko. All other roles will be filled by audition.)
Audition packets are available at the box office, open Monday through Friday from 10 to 5:30 P.M.
Participants will be expected to perform the following:
Men - #2 "Jet Song," #8 "Cool"
Women - #7 "America," #13D "Somewhere," #12 "I Feel Pretty"
Spokane Civic Theatre: BUDDY: The Buddy Holly Story
Monday, August 2 at 6:30 P.M. and Tuesday, August 3 at 6:30 P.M. at Civic's Main Stage, 1020 N Howard Street
Director Yvonne A.K. Johnson is looking for 10 men (appearing to be ages 18 - 50)
8 - 10 women (appearing to be ages 18 - 50)
Some required to play a musical instrument. People of color are strongly encouraged to audition. Ability to play a musical instrument is required for some roles and helpful for most. Some musicians/roles will be cast in advance based upon the complexity of the talent combination.
Participants will be expected to perform a verse and a chorus from a contemporary musical or a 1950s rock 'n' roll song in addition to cold readings from the script. Bring your own music. An accompanist will be provided. Dress for freedom of movement.
Performances September 24 to October 24, 2010)

Lake City Playhouse: Evita
August 2, 3, 4 6:30 p.m. at Lake City Playhouse, 1320 E Garden Ave in Coeur d'Alene.
Director Abbey Crawford and music director Carolyn Jess are looking to cast these roles:
Magaldi - sleazy, to look late 30's early 40s
Peron - dignified, to look mid 40s-mid 50s
Che - rebel, politico, to look 18-25
Eva - self assured, smart, striking, to play ages 16-32
The Mistress - to appear as a teen
12 to 16 member Chorus/Ensemble - various roles
Children may audition for the Act 2 Children Chorus
Be prepared to sing a 1 minute song that is NOT a selection from the production. No CD's and No A Cappella allowed - Must provide your own sheet music. Wear appropriate clothing for dance and movement.
Production dates: Sep 17-Oct 10

Spokane Childrens Theatre: How I Became a Pirate!
Auditions Aug 22 at 4pm, Aug 23 at 6pm, St. Aloysius School, 611 East Mission Avenue.
Director Buddy Todd is looking for four teen to adult men and one teen to adult woman to play pirates. He is also seeking one 8-12 year old boy (or girl to play a boy).
Bring sheet music for a one minute song from any show and dress comfortably for movement auditions. Auditioners should check out the hilarious picture book by Melinda Long with illustrations by Spokane’s own David Shannon for inspiration!
Show Dates: Oct 9-24.

Liberty Lake Community Theatre: Burgertown
Auditions Aug 26 at 6:30p, Aug 28 at 3p, at 1421 Meadowwood Lane, Suite 130 in Liberty Lake. Director Jennifer Ophardt wants a cast of nine with parts open to persons age 15 and older.
Performances are slated for December.

Spokane Civic Theatre: White Christmas
Monday, September 13 (children 6:30 - 7:30 P.M. only) (adults 7:30 - 9:30 P.M.)
Tuesday, September 14 (adults only 6:30 - 9:30 P.M.
at the Spokane Civic Theatre - Firth J. Chew Studio Theatre, 1020 N Howard Street
(Dean Street entrance)
Director Troy Nickerson is looking for:
12 - 15 men (appearing to be ages 18 -65)
12 women (appearing to be ages 18 - 65)
2 girls (ages 9 - 12)
2 boys (ages 9 - 12)
Participants will be expected to perform a verse and a chorus from a classic musical in addition to cold readings from the script. Bring your own sheet music. An accompanist will be provided. Dress for freedom of movement.
Show runs November 19 - December 19

Spokane Civic Theatre Studio: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Sunday, December 5 at 6:30 P.M., Monday, December 6 at 6:30 P.M.
at the Spokane Civic Theatre - Firth J. Chew Studio Theatre, 1020 N Howard Street
(Dean Street entrance)
Director Kathie Doyle-Lipe is looking for:
4 women (appearing to be between ages 20-50)
5 men (appearing to be between ages 20-50)
Participants will be expected to perform a verse and a chorus from a contemporary musical. Bring your own sheet music. An accompanist will be provided. Dress for freedom of movement.
Performances January 28 - February 20

Been a while...

2010-07-19T20:21:00.000-07:00

Sorry about the delay in getting up playlists and audio. First I had a computer meltdown, then a few weeks later my dad unexpectedly passed away. I can honestly say he was Matinee's biggest fan. If he wasn't in Spokane to hear it live, he would tune in via the internet. I didn't know if anyone else actually wanted to hear it online so I had no extra push to get my shows up. I had the pleasure of bumping into one listener, Toni, who reminded me that yes, people do want to hear the Matinee other times than Wednesdays at 11! I have the added frustration of a full-time job now (wait - that's a frustration?!?!) so I don't have my afternoons to play with playlists and posts about the show. Anyway, thank you to those who sent condolences and support. There'll be some changes before too long - a new way to hear the Matinee, especially. Hang in there, I hear you!

Mar 31: Songs of God

2010-03-31T08:33:00.000-07:00

I'll Walk With God - Mario Lanza, The Student Prince/The Desert Song (RCA)
The Lord's Prayer - Mbongeni Ngema, Sarafina! The Sound of Freedom [Original Soundtrack] ()
Grateful Children - Adrian Zmed; Stephanie Mills, Children of Eden (RCA)
The Lord Is Good to Me (Melody Time) - Dennis Day, The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song Disc 1(Disney)
God Help the Outcasts [Hunchback of Notre Dame] - Kerry Butler, Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust
The Pagan Ave Maria - Tina Arena, Notre Dame De Paris (Sony)
Children of God - Girls, Jane Eyre [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
All for the Best - David Haskell; Victor Garber, Godspell [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Arista)
Mysterious Ways - Chantylla Johnson, Zipporah G. Gatling, Cast, The Color Purple [Original Broadway Cast] (Angel)
The Color Purple - Elisabeth Withers-Mendes, The Color Purple [Original Broadway Cast] (Angel)
Simon Zealotes - Tony Vincent, Jesus Christ Superstar [London Revival Cast] (Sony)
Tower of Babble - Godspell, Godspell (Varese Sarabande)
Learn Your Lessons Well [From Godspell] - Samantha Shaw, I Won't Grow up: Broadway for Kids (Jay)
Do Ya Wanna Go to Heaven - Big River,
See How They Done My Lord - Salome Bey, Your Arms Too Short to Box With God
Everybody Has His Own Way - Clinton Derricks-Carroll, Michael Gray, Your Arms Too Short to Box With God
All Good Gifts - John Michael Tebelak, Godspell [2001 National Touring Cast Recording] (DRG)
In the Beginning - Company, Children of Eden [Original Cast Highlights] (RCA Records)

Mar 24: Beauty

2010-03-31T08:31:00.000-07:00

How Lovely to Be a Woman - Susan Watson, Bye Bye Birdie [Original Broadway Cast Recording] (Sony Classical)
Gorgeous - Barbara Harris, The Apple Tree [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
Lovely - Ruthie Henshall, Carol Burnett, Cast, Putting It Together (Image Entertainment)
If a Girl Isn't Pretty - Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl [Original Soundtrack] (Columbia)
Stepsisters Lament - Cast, RH Cinderella ()
A Stud and a Babe - Jennifer Simard; Robert Roznowski, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (Varese Sarabande)
Decorate the Human Face (Colette College) - JoAnn Cunningham, Show Goes On (DRG)
Lovely to Look At [From the 1935 Film Roberta] - Adrienne Angel, An Evening with Dorothy Fields (DRG)
A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody - John Steel, American Musical Theatre: Shows, Songs and Stars, Vol. 1 (Smithsonian)
Raving Beauty - Cast, Meet Me in St. Louis [Original Broadway Cast] (DRG)
Beautiful Girls - Paul Bentley, Company, Follies [Original London Cast] ()
When You Got It, Flaunt It - Cady Huffman; Matthew Broderick; Nathan Lane, The Producers [Original Broadway Cast Recording] (Sony Classical)
I Enjoy Being a Girl [From Flower Drum Song] - Pat Suzuki, Broadway Showstoppers, Vol. 1 (Sony Music Distribution)
Dance: Ten; Looks: Three - Jessica Lee Goldyn, A Chorus Line [2006 Broadway Cast] (Sony)
The Goods radio edit - Kimberly Grigsby; Ted Sperling, The Full Monty [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
Some Girls - Jerry Dixon, Once on This Island [RCA] (RCA)
Too Beautiful for Words - Elisabeth Withers-Mendes, The Color Purple [Original Broadway Cast] (Angel)
Beautiful in You - Audra McDonald, 110 in the Shade [2007 Cast]
Big, Blonde and Beautiful - Mary Bond Davis, Hairspray [Original Cast] (Sony Classical)
Big, Blonde and Beautiful - Queen Latifah, Hairspray [2007 Soundtrack] (Universal Classics)

Mar 17: Songs about Music

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Sing Happy - Liza Minnelli, Broadway Divas (RCA)
Let Me Sing and I'm Happy - Al Jolson, Let Me Sing and I'm Happy: At Warner Bros. 1926-1936 (Turner)
Sing for Your Supper - Rebecca Luker, Sarah Uriarte Berry, Debbie Gravitte, The Boys from Syracuse [1997 Concert Cast] (DRG)
Carnegie Hall (Do-Do-Re-Do) - Chorus, On the Town [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony Classical)
Do-Re-Mi - Mary Martin, American Musical Theatre: Shows, Songs and Stars, Vol. 4
Sing! - Revival cast, A Chorus Line [2006 Broadway Cast] (Sony)
Scales and Arpeggios - Liz English; Dean Clark; Gary Dubin, Songs from the Aristocats (Walt Disney)
The Girl in 14g - Kristin Chenoweth, Let Yourself Go (Sony)
Wrong Note Rag - Audra McDonald, Kim Criswell, Wonderful Town [1999 Studio Cast] (EMI Classics)
The Big Beat - Janie Sell; Maxene Andrews; Patty Andrews, Over Here! (Sony Classical)
Seventy Six Trombones - Chorus, The Music Man [Original Soundtrack]
I Love a Piano - Brian d'Arcy James; Jeffry Denman; Meredith Patterson; Women, White Christmas [Original Studio Cast] (Ghostlight)
It's a Grand Night for Singing - Ron Raines, Broadway Passion (That's Entertainment)
New Music - Studio Cast, Ragtime [Original Cast Recording - RCA] (BMG)
The Sound of Muzak - Patrick Scott Brady, Closer Than Ever [Original Cast] Disc 1 (RCA)
If I Sing [From Closer Than Ever] - Richard Maltby, Jr., If I Sing: The Songwriters Album (Ps Classics)
Thank You For The Music - Amanda Seyfried, Mamma Mia
Singin' in the Rain - Gene Kelly, S Wonderful (Pegasus)

Mar 10: Ben Vereen

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When Ben Vereen appears with the Spokane Symphony, he says the first half of the show will be part of a new project he's writing, "From B to B," tracing his journey from his childhood in Brooklyn through the world of Broadway. The second half will be his tribute to Sammy Davis Jr, one of the many influences in his performing life. He talked about Sammy Davis Jr., Bob Fosse, Bert Williams, and other influences on his long and active performing life with me last week.
Magic To Do - Ben Vereen, Pippin [OBC] (Decca)
Heaven On Their Minds - Ben Vereen, Jesus Christ Superstar OBC
Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries - Ben Vereen, Fosse [WNET]
No Time At All - Irene Ryan, Pippin [OBC] (Decca)
Rhythm Of Life - Sammy Davis Jr, Sweet Charity
Clap Hands Here Comes Charley - Ben Vereen, Funny Lady
New Man - Ben Vereen, Grind
More on Ben Vereen:
Biography from PBS's Stars Over Broadway
The "accident" Ben Vereen talks about