June 1: Class Struggle

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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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

Last week's show coming...

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

Apr 6: April In Paris

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

Mar 30 - Live at KPBX!

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

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

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

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

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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

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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

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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

** 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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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)