Sep 2: Jewish Culture & Religion Center Stage

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 (Smithsonian)
Hard to be a Prince - Yiddish Theatre Hamlet & Other Actors, Rags (Columbia)
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)
If You Could See Her (The Gorilla Song) - Joel Grey, Cabaret [Original Broadway Cast] [Bonus Tracks] (Sony)
Meeskite - Jack Gilford, Cabaret [Original Broadway Cast] [Bonus Tracks] (Sony)
If I Were a Rich Man - Zero Mostel, Fiddler on the Roof OBC
Sabbath Prayer - Chaim Topol; Company; Miriam Karlin, Fiddler on the Roof [Original London Cast] [Bonus Tracks] (Sony Classical)
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.)
Jewish Wedding Song - Julie Andrews, Thoroughly Modern Millie [film]
Jason's Bar Mitzvah - Cast, Falsettoland [Original Off-Broadway Cast] (DRG)
Today You Are a Man - Cast, Wedding Singer
The King of Broadway - Nathan Lane, The Producers [2005 Soundtrack] (Sony)
You Won't Succeed on Broadway - David Hyde Pierce, Monty Python's Spamalot (Decca)

Upcoming Shows

The BEST place to find arts events is at spokanearts.org, but there are several events outside the county of Spokane that are still of interest to musical theater lovers. The region’s schools are also doing some incredible work. If you want to add a musical theater-related event, please email me.

Best of Broadway presents Fiddler on the Roof starring Topol from Sep 1 to Sep 6 at INB Performing Arts Center.

Spokane Civic Theatre presents Pirates of Penzance from Sep 25 to Oct 25 at Main Stage.

Spokane Children's Theatre presents Disney's High School Musical 2 from Oct 9 to Oct 25 at SCC Lair Auditorium.

Spokane Civic Theatre presents Chess in Concert from Oct 30 to Oct 31 at Main Stage.

Best of Broadway presents Disney's The Lion King from Nov 11 to Dec. 6 at INB Performing Arts Center.

Spokane Civic Theatre presents Curtains from Jan 15 to Feb 7 at Main Stage.

Best of Broadway presents Avenue Q from Feb 11 to Feb 14 at INB Performing Arts Center.

Spokane Civic Theatre presents Spitfire Grill from Mar 17 to Apr 11 at Firth Chew Studio Theatre.

Best of Broadway presents Little House on the Prairie starring Melissa Gilbert from Apr 8 to Apr 11 at INB Performing Arts Center.

Spokane Civic Theatre presents Annie Get Your Gun from May 21 to Jun 20 at Main Stage.

Aug 19: Frank Loesser

NPR has done some lovely interviews with family members about Frank Loesser. The 'Heart and Soul' of Frank Loesser, Jo Sullivan Loesser On Her 'Guy', and A 'Most Happy' Discovery: Loesser's Demo Tapes.

Playlist coming soon - Computer problems this week keep me from posting the audio or the playlist yet.

Aug. 12: Too Darn Hot

This episode is cursed. Both times I've played it, the traditional summer weather has cooled off - yeah it's RAINING today. That's what I get for scheduling my programs two months in advance. Oh well, we can PRETEND it's hot. The music file will be posted later. Thanks for listening!

Summertime (Porgy And Bess) - Kiri Te Kanawa, Kiri Sings Gershwin (Angel)
Summertime in Heidelberg - Mario Lanza, The Student Prince/The Desert Song (RCA)
Gonna Be Another Hot Day - Stephen Douglass; Townspeople, 110 in the Shade [Original Broadway Cast] (That's Entertainment)
The Sun Has Got His Hat On - Jane Summerhays; Nick Ullett, Me & My Girl [MCA] (MCA)
Sunday in the Park with George - Bernadette Peters, Mandy Patinkin, Sunday in the Park with George [Original Broadway Cast] (BMG/Image)
Just the Two of Them/Song of a Summer Night - Keith Kaldenberg, The Most Happy Fella [Original Broadway Cast] Disc 2 (Sony Classical)
Evening in Summer - Pat Kirkwood; Sylvia Cecil, Ace of Clubs (Bayview)
On the Front Porch [From Summer Magic] - Burl Ives, The Sherman Brothers (Disney)
Too Darn Hot - Stanley Wayne Mathis, Kiss Me, Kate [1999 Broadway Revival Cast] (DRG)
Heat Wave - Ben Selvin; Ethel Waters, Great American Songwriters, Vol. 4: Irving Berlin (Rhino)
Blame It On The Summer Night - Julia Migenes, Rags (Columbia)
The Girls of Summer - Suzanne Henry, Marry Me a Little (RCA)
The Song of Purple Summer - Cast, Spring Awakening (Decca)
Piragua - Eliseo Roman, In the Heights Disc 1 (Ghostlight)
Ain't it awful, the heat Street Scene - Weil, Kurt Weill - Berlin to Broadway (Paramount Records)
Summer Nights - John Travolta; Olivia Newton-John, Grease [Original Soundtrack] (Polygram International)

Aug 5: Sailing

We Sail the Seas - American Sailors, Ben Franklin in Paris (Angel Records)
Fathoms Below - Alan Menken, The Little Mermaid [Original Broadway Cast] (Disney)
When Our Ship Comes Sailing In - Adam Arkin; Patrick Cassidy; Robert Westenberg, Oh, Kay! [Original Soundtrack] (Roxbury)
There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York - Anne Brown; Avon Long; Decca Symphony Orchestra, Porgy & Bess] (Membran)
Sailing at Midnight - Philip Chaffin, Warm Spring Night (PS Classics)
As on Through the Seasons We Sail - Don Ameche; Hildegarde Neff, Silk Stockings [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
Sail Away/In a Boat on the Lake With ... - 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)
Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat - Walter Bobbie, Guys and Dolls [1992 Broadway Revival Cast] (RCA Victor)
Old Man River - Paul Robson, Showboat; Broadway Musical Series (Prism)
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)
Pirate Jenny - Marianne Faithfull, The Seven Deadly Sins (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's No Cure Like Travel/Bon Voyage - Alec Timerman; Michele Pigliavento, Anything Goes [1987 Broadway Revival Cast] (RCA)

July 29: Sherman Brothers

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious [From Mary Poppins] - Julie Andrews, Walt Disney Presents The Sherman Brothers (Disney)
Substitutiary Locomotion [From Bedknobs and Broomsticks] - Angela Lansbury; Cindy O'Callaghan; Dave Tomlinson; Ian Weighill; Roy Snart, Classic Disney, Vol. 4 (Disney International)
Tiggers - Jim Cummings, The Tigger Movie (Walt Disney)
Tall Paul - Annette Funicello, The Sherman Brothers (Disney)
Let's Get Together [From the Parent Trap] - Hayley Mills, Classic Disney, Vol. 1: 60 Years of Musical Magic (Disney)
You're Sixteen - Johnny Burnette, Dreamin': Very Best of Johnny Burnette (Collectables)
Things I Might Have Been - Kitty Wells, Queen of Country Music (Bear Family)
Winnie the Pooh [From Winnie the Pooh & the Honey Tree] - Soundtrack, Walt Disney Presents The Sherman Brothers (Disney)
The Ugly Bug Ball [From Summer Magic] - Burl Ives, Classic Disney, Vol. 1: 60 Years of Musical Magic (Disney)
The Aristocrats - Maurice Chevalier, Walt Disney Presents The Sherman Brothers (Disney)
Makin' Memories - Disney Singers, Walt Disney Presents The Sherman Brothers (Disney)
The Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room (Disneyland's The Enchanted Tiki Room) - Thurl Ravenscroft, Disney's Greatest Vol. 3 (Walt Disney Records)
There's A Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow - They Might Be Giants, Meet the Robinsons (Walt Disney Records)
Do You Remember Me - Shelby Flint, Snoopy Come Home (Paramount)
It Changes - Chad Webber, Snoopy Come Home (Paramount)
Hushabye Mountain - Dick Van Dyke, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Rykodisc)
Doll on a Music Box-Truly Scrumtious (Reprise) - Emma Williams, Michael Ball, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [Original London Cast] (Mr. Bang Bang Records)
Feed the Birds - Original London Cast, Mary Poppins [Original London Cast] (Walt Disney Records)
Over Here! - Maxene Andrews; Patty Andrews, Over Here! (Sony Classical)
The Good-Time Girl (V.D. Polka) - Patty Andrews, Over Here! (Sony Classical)
Whoop-de-Dooper Bounce (The Tigger Movie) - Jim Cummings, The Tigger Movie (Walt Disney)
Fundamental Friendapendability - Linda Ercoli, Snoopy Come Home (Paramount)

July 22: Spanish Rose

May I Set the Stage? - Plácido Domingo, Man of La Mancha (Erato)
Buenos Aires - Madonna, Evita [Motion Picture Soundtrack] (Warner Bros.)
All You Have to Do Is Wait - Shawn Elliott, City of Angels [Original Broadway Cast] (Columbia)
Muchacha - Judy Holliday; Peter Gennaro, Bells Are Ringing [Original Broadway Cast] [Bonus Tracks] (Sony)
Castle in Spain (Babes in Toyland) - Ray Bolger, The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song Disc 3 (Disney)
Spanish Rose - Chita Rivera; Townspeople, Bye Bye Birdie [Original Broadway Cast Recording] (Sony Classical)
Satin Summer Nights - Marc Anthony, Songs from The Capeman (WEA)
Sunday Afternoon - Ednita Nazario, Songs from The Capeman (WEA)
Where Is Love? (Oliver) - Natalie Toro, Latin Broadway (Varese Sarabande)
Un Mejor dia Vendra - Emilio Hernandez, Working [Original Cast Recording] (Varese Sarabande)
Me Siento Hermosa - Josefina Scaglione; Jennifer Sanchez; Danielle Polanco; Kat Nejat, West Side Story (Sony Masterworks Broadway)
Un Hombre Asi/I Have Love - Karen Olivo; Josefina Scaglione, West Side Story (Sony Masterworks Broadway)
Carnaval del Barrio radio cut - Cast, In the Heights (Ghostlight)

July 15: Leonard Bernstein

New York, New York song - Adolph Green; Cris Alexander; John Reardon; Michael Kermoyan, On the Town [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
Lonely Town (On The Town) - Ron Raines, Broadway Passion (That's Entertainment)
My Darlin' Eileen - Men's Chorus, Wonderful Town [1999 Studio Cast] (EMI Classics)
Wrong Note Rag - Audra McDonald, Kim Criswell, Wonderful Town [1999 Studio Cast] (EMI Classics)
Conga! (Wonderful Town) - Rosalind Russell, Broadway: The Great Original C (Sony Mid-Price)

Who Am I - Marcia Henderson, Peter Pan [Original 1950 Broadway Cast] (Columbia Rec)
Dream With Me [Cut from Peter Pan] - Glory Crampton, Musical Adventures of Peter Pan (Varese Sarabande)
What a Movie (Trouble In Tahiti) - Dawn Upshaw, The World So Wide ()
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 (Original Cast Record)
Oh Happy We - Mark Baker; Maureen Brennan, Candide [1974 Broadway Revival Cast] Disc 1 (Original Cast Record)
I Am Easily Assimilated (Candide) - Christa Ludwig, Bernstein on Broadway (Deutsche Grammophon)
Maria - Jim Bryant, West Side Story [Expanded Original Soundtrack] (Sony Classical/Legacy)
Seena (1600 Pennsylvania Avenue) - Bruce Hubbard, American Classics Leonard Bernstein (EMI Records Ltd.)
Spring Will Come Again (Skin of Our Teeth) - Linda Eder, Daniel Narducci, Bernstein's Peter Pan (Koch Int'l Classics)
My New Friends - Dawn Upshaw, I Wish It So (Elektra/Asylum)

July 8: New Releases

Allegro - Norbert Leo Butz; Patrick Wilson; Liz Callaway, Rodgers & Hammerstein: Allegro Disc 2 (Masterworks Broadway)
Tonight (Quintet) - Company, West Side Story (Sony Masterworks Broadway)
Blue Skies It's A Lovely Day Today - Malcolm Gets, Melissa Errico, The Journey Home (PS Classics)
Mrs. Remington - Malcolm Gets, The Story Of My Life (PS CLASSICS)
The Best Thing That Has Ever Happened - Cast, Road Show (Nonesuch)
I Know It's Today - Sutton Foster, Shrek the Musical (Decca)
My Romance/Danglin' - Sutton Foster, Wish (Ghostlight)
My Own Best Friend (from Chicago) - Liza Minnelli, Liza's at the Palace (Hybrid / Sire)
Xanadude - Cast, Forbidden Broadway Goes to Rehab (DRG)
The Lamest Place in the World - Allie Trimm, 13 [Original Cast] (Ghostlight)
Just Another Day radio edit - Cast, Next To Normal (Sh-K-Boom)
I Got Life - Gavin Creel, Hair (2009 Broadway Cast) (Ghostlight)
Let the Sun Shine In - Cast, Hair (2009 Broadway Cast) (Ghostlight)

July 1: Immigrant Experience

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 Millon Miracles - Lea Salonga, Flower Drum Song [2002 Broadway Revival Cast] (DRG)
Simply Free - Adam Heller, The Immigrant: A New American Musical (Ghostlight)
Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor - Allyn McLerie, Miss Liberty (Sony Classical)
Liift the Wings - Aine Ui Cheallaigh, Riverdance (Decca U.S.)
Success - Peter Friedman, Ragtime [Original Broadway Cast Disc 1] (RCA Victor Broadway)
Greenhorns - Company, Rags (Columbia)
That's America - Becca Daniels Noyes, David Holloway, Max Quinlan, The Christmas Schooner (Louisa May Alleycat Music)
Chop Suey - Juanita Hall; Patrick Adairte, Flower Drum Song [Original Broadway Cast] (Columbia)
Yankee Boy - Larry Kert, Rags (Columbia)
Pacienca y Fe (Patience and Faith) - Olga Merediz, Company, In the Heights Disc 1 (Ghostlight)
America - Rita Moreno; George Chakiris, West Side Story [Expanded Original Soundtrack] (Sony Classical/Legacy)

June 24: There's No Business Like Show Business

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

June 17: Fathers

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

June 10: Cy Coleman

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

Tony Awards on Sunday!

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

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

June 3: Kander & Ebb

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

May 27: Comedy Songs

Comedy Tonight - Nathan Lane, Company, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum [Angel]
Professional Showbizness Comedy - Andrea Martin; Ensemble; Tom Mardirosian, My Favorite Year (RCA)
Johnny One Note - Melissa Rain Anderson, Babes in Arms [1999 New York Cast Recording] (DRG)
Is It a Crime - Judy Holliday, Bells Are Ringing [Original Broadway Cast] [Bonus Tracks] (Sony)
The Rumor - Bea Arthur; Ensemble; Leonard Frey, Fiddler on the Roof OBC (RCA Victor Broadway)
We Both Reached for the Gun - James Naughton, D. Sabella, Ann Reinking, Chicago [RCA] (RCA)
Gee, Officer Krupke! - Jets Cast; Kieran Daniels, West Side Story [Leicester Cast] (Curtain Call)
Shipoopi - Buddy Hackett; Ensemble, The Music Man [Original Soundtrack] (Warner Bros.)
Lydia the Tattooed Lady - Groucho Marx, At the Circus (Raven)
Adelaide's Lament - Faith Prince, Guys and Dolls [1992 Broadway Revival Cast] (RCA Victor)
You Gotta Get a Gimmick - Jule Styne, Gypsy [2008 Broadway Revival Cast] [Barnes & Noble Exclusive] Disc 1 (Time Life)
Schadenfreude (edited for radio) - Avenue Q
Friendship [From Du Barry Was a Lady] - Bert Lahr; Ethel Merman, American Musical Theater: Shows, Songs and Stars, Vol. 2 (Smithsonian)
Brush up Your Shakespeare - First Man & Second Man, Kiss Me, Kate [1999 Broadway Revival Cast]

Mar 20: Mothers

Momma, Momma, Momma - Elliott Gould; Lillian Roth, I Can Get It for You Wholesale [Original Soundtrack] (Sony)
Tomorrow's Mothers Day [Cut from Gypsy]
Glamorous Life - Elaine Tomkinson, A Little Night Music
Mother Darling - Erin Davie, Christine Ebersole, Bob Stillman, Matt Cavenaugh, Grey Gardens: A New Musical (PS Classics)
Piano Lesson/If You Don't Mind My Saying So - Pert Kelton; Shirley Jones, The Music Man [Original Soundtrack] (Warner Bros.)
Tina's Mother - Joan Ryan, Ruthless [Los Angeles Cast] (Colosseum)
Our Little World - Julia McKenzie; Mary Lincoln, Into the Woods [London Cast] (BMG)
Swinging Song/Thomas - Victoria Clark, Fifteen Seconds of Grace (P.S. Classics)
Your Mother and Mine - Disney’s Peter Pan
My Best Girl - Broadway Cast, Mame - 1966 Broadway
Mamma A Rainbow Minnies Boys - Michael Digioia, Another Look
My Son - Christine Ebersole, Patrick Wilson, Bright Lights, Big City [Original Cast] (Sh-K-Boom)
Slipping Through My Fingers - Meryl Streep, Mamma Mia
The Portrait [A...My Name Is Alice] - Barbara Walsh, My Name Will Always Be Alice (Original Cast Record)
I Don't Know Where She Got It - Lillian Hayman; Robert Hooks, Hallelujah, Baby! (Sony Classical)
Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now - Marissa Jaret Winokur; Nikki Blonsky; Ricki Lake, Hairspray [2007 Soundtrack] (Universal Classics)

Shows and Showtunes in the Region

The BEST place to find arts events is at spokanearts.org, but there are several events outside the county of Spokane that are still of interest to musical theater lovers. The region’s schools are also doing some incredible work. If you want to add a musical theater-related event, please email me.

Lake City Playhouse presents Big River from May 8 to May 23 at Lake City Playhouse. The tale of Huck Finn and Joe's epic journey down the Mississippi with excellent music by Roger Miller

Spokane Civic Theatre presents A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum from May 15 to Jun 14 at Main Stage. Stephen Sondheim's silly but popular romp through Greek farce

Spokane Children's Theatre presents Heidi from May 16 to May 31 at Spokane Community College Lair.

Spokane Civic Theatre Academy presents Rent: The School Edition from May 30 to May 31 at Main Stage.

Best of Broadway presents Fiddler on the Roof starring Topol from 1-Sep to Sep 6 at INB Performing Arts Center.

Spokane Civic Theatre presents Pirates of Penzance from Sep 25 to Oct 25 at Main Stage.

Spokane Children's Theatre presents Disney's High School Musical 2 from October to at TBA.

Spokane Civic Theatre presents Chess in Concert from Oct 30 to Oct 31 at Main Stage.

Best of Broadway presents Disney's The Lion King from Nov 11 to Dec. 6 at INB Performing Arts Center.

Spokane Civic Theatre presents Tuna Christmas/Best Christmas Pagent Ever from Nov 20 to Dec 20 at Main Stage.

Spokane Civic Theatre presents Curtains from Jan 15 to Feb 7 at Main Stage.

Best of Broadway presents Avenue Q from 11-Feb to Feb 14 at INB Performing Arts Center.

Spokane Civic Theatre presents Spitfire Grill from Mar 17 to Apr 11 at Firth Chew Studio Theatre.

May 6: Bernadette Peters

Bernadette Peters is on stage again in the Spokane area, this time at Northern Quest Casino Sunday May 10 (Mother's Day). In honor of the diva, here's an hour of songs from her career. She is also reading from her children's book Broadway Barks on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Valley Barnes & Noble.

Star Tar - Bernadette Peters, Dames at Sea [Original Cast] (That's Entertainment)
There's Something About You - Bernadette Peters; David Christmas, Dames at Sea [Original Cast]
Musical Moon/Oh, You Wonderful Boy/All Aboard for Broadway - Jerry Dodge, Betty Ann Grove, Bernadette Peters, Joel Grey, George M! [Original Cast] (Sony)
Time Heals Everything (Mack and Mabel) - Bernadette Peters, Sondheim, Etc.: Live at Carnegie Hall (Angel)
Sunday in the Park with George - Bernadette Peters, Mandy Patinkin, Sunday in the Park with George [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
Tell Me on a Sunday - Bernadette Peters, Song & Dance - The Songs [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
Unexpected Song [Song and Dance] - Bernadette Peters, Hey Mr. Producer!: The Musical World of Cameron MacKintosh Disc 1 (404 Music Group/Phillips)
Stay with Me - Bernadette Peters; Pamela Winslow, Into the Woods [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
Last Midnight - Bernadette Peters, Star Spangled Rhythm [Smithsonian] Disc 4
No More - Bernadette Peters, The Goodbye Girl [Broadway Cast] (Columbia)
Doin' What Comes Natur'lly - Bernadette Peters, Annie Get Your Gun [1999 Broadway Revival Cast] (Angel)
Some People - Bernadette Peters, Sondheim, Etc.: Live at Carnegie Hall (Angel)
The Gentleman is a Dope - Bernadette Peters, Bernadette Loves Rodgers and Hammerstein (Angel)
I Haven't Got a Worry in the World - Bernadette Peters, Bernadette Loves Rodgers and Hammerstein (Angel)
Not a Day Goes By - Bernadette Peters, Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall Disc 2 (RCA)

Apr 29: Sondheim

Lovely - Ruthie Henshall, Carol Burnett, Cast, Putting It Together (Image Entertainment)
Bring Me My Bride - Cris Grienendaal, Nathan Lane, Cast, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum [Angel] (Angel)
The Miller's Son - D. Jamin Bartlett, A Little Night Music (That's Entertainment/ Sony)
Kiss Me - Lauren Molina, Benjamin Magnuson, Sweeney Todd [2005 Broadway Revival Cast] Disc 1 (Nonesuch)
You Could Drive a Person Crazy [Company] - Lea Salonga; Maria Friedman; Millicent Martin; Ruthie Henshall, Hey Mr. Producer!: The Musical World of Cameron MacKintosh Disc 2 (404 Music Group/Phillips)
Everybody Loves Louis - Bernadette Peters, Sunday in the Park with George [Original Broadway Cast] (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 - Glynis Johns, Star Spangled Rhythm [Smithsonian] Disc 4
I Remember (Evening Primrose) - Megan Mullally, The Sweetheart Break-In
Loving You - Mandy Patinkin, Oscar & Steve (Nonesuch)
Losing My Mind [Follies] - Michael Ball, Hey Mr. Producer!: The Musical World of Cameron MacKintosh Disc 2 (404 Music Group/Phillips)
No One is Alone - Barbara Cook, No One Is Alone (DRG)
Free - Nathan Lane, Jim Stanek, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum [Angel] (Angel)
Pretty Little Picture - Nathan Lane, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum [Angel] (Angel)