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)

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

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

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

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 - ,