Whoops

I hate it when I push the wrong button, ya know? My apologies to Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz, and Civic for playing "Turn Back O Man" from Godspell - in the studio this spring - after introducing songs from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - on the Main Stage this spring. The worst thing is that I'm at my day job, far from the KPBX studio, so I can't do a thing about it. ;-p Oh well, mea culpa. I'll try to post a list of songs played, but I'm heavily into rehearsal for Cowgirls at Interplayers. Wheeeeeeee....
Thanks for listening! You can always reach me at janean at kpbx.org.

Dec 10 '08: Carols for a Cure

Carols for a Cure is an eclectic mix of classical choral, novelty songs, alternative rock, and world music, created and performed by singers in New York's biggest shows. For today's show, I interviewed Lynn Pinto, an actress who 10 years ago began recording Christmas songs with the casts of Broadway shows and sold the CDs to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.

Today's show doesn't fit into any cubby hole of music genres. Some are beautiful chorals, some have fabulous sounds that bowled me over, some are silly fun, and one song I just didn't get until Linn explained it to me. It's as fabulously mixed as the musical theater scene today. And it's a perfect foil to the oh-too-familiar music piped through stores and certain radio stations all December long.

To be perfectly honest, I put this show together with the hope that you, the listener, will go to the BroadwayCares.org site and purchase any of the Carols for a Cure series for yourself. The "for a Cure" part means all proceeds benefit research to find a cure for AIDS and services for those with the condition. (I'm a dreamer - I want an end to all diseases and life-threatening conditions, AIDS included.)

I am thoroughly grateful to everyone involved - the music directors who had creative ideas, the songwriters who donated their talents, the singers and musicians who take the time out of their performing schedules every year to make it a reality. It gives me great pleasure to listen to these songs, and I hope that these songs have the same effect on you, too.

Here are the songs I played on this show, just a tiny handful of all the great songs from the whole Carols for a Cure series:
Dreidel Dreidel Dreidel - 2003 Cast of Hairspray
I Wonder as I Wander - 2008 Cast of Spring Awakening
Good King Wenceslas - 1998 Nuns Choir of Sound of Music
Los Peces en el Rio - Antonio Banderas and the 2003 Cast of Nine
Los Peces en el Rio - 2008 Cast of In the Heights
Carol of the Bells (with Djembe) - 2008 Cast of The Lion King
Cold Christmas (by Elton John) - 2008 Cast of Billy Elliott
Eight Lonliest Nights of the Year - 2008 Cast of Avenue Q
Holiday Lament (The Fruitcake Song) - 2004 Cast of The Lion King
Tannenbaum - 2001 Cast of The Producers
The Holly and the Ivy - 2008 Cast of Mary Poppins
White Christmas - Bernadette Peters and the 1999 Cast of Annie Get Your Gun

Dec 3 2008 - Howard Ashman

Okay, it's not pretty - my formatting self destructed. But here's a list of what the songs were for today's show. Thanks for listening!

Title Artist Album
Cheese Nips Howard Ashman Howard Sings Ashman
Sheridan Square (Too Many Hats) Howard Ashman Howard Sings Ashman
Skid Row (Downtown) Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene Little Shop of Horrors [Original Soundtrack]
A Little Dental Music [*][Demo Version] Alan Menken Little Shop of Horrors [2003 Cast]
I Found a Hobby [*][Demo Version] Howard Ashman Little Shop of Horrors [2003 Cast]
Suddenly, Seymour Alan Menken Little Shop of Horrors [OS]
Be Our Guest (Demo) Howard Ashman Beauty and the Beast
If I Can't Love Her Ron Raines So in Love With Broadway
Seize the Day [From Newsies] David Moscow; Newsies Classic Disney, Vol. 5
This Only Happens in the Movies Kerry Butler Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust
I Can't Believe My Heart Susan Egan Coffeehouse
Lights of Long Ago Lynn Ahrens A Christmas Carol [2004 TV Cast]
A Place Called Home (A Christmas Carol) Liz Callaway On and off Broadway: The Story Goes On
Abundance and Charity Michael Mandell A Christmas Carol [Original Cast]
God Bless Us, Everyone Company A Christmas Carol [Original Cast]

Shows and Showtunes in the Region

Tickets to shows make GREAT Christmas Gifts! 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.

Spokane Civic Theater presents A Christmas Carol, The Musical from Nov 21 to Dec 20 at Main Stage. Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, Once On This Island) and Alan Menken (Beauty & The Beast, Little Mermaid, Little Shop of Horrors) teamed up to give new voice to the Dickens' classic. Kelsey Grammar took this adaptation and made a TV movie of it.

Spokane Children's Theatre presents Madeline's Christmas from Nov 28 to Dec 13 at Spokane Civic Theatre Main Stage.

Lake City Playhouse presents Annie from Dec 4 to Dec 21 at Lake City Playhouse. America's favorite redhead girl gets another production, this time in Coeur d'Alene

Best of Broadway presents The Color Purple from Dec 10 to Dec 14 at INB Performing Arts Center.

Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre expands into winter with a concert production of Irving Berlin's White Christmas. The stage production combines several classic Berlin songs with the plot of the movie by the same name, Dec 19-21 at the Schuler Performing Arts Center in Boswell Hall on the campus of North Idaho College.

Interplayers presents A Reduced Christmas Carol or Scrooge vs. The Stopwatch! The 50-minute special event puts Dickens through a blender, a zany treat for the holidays Dec. 17-21. (Okay, it's not a musical, but it's silly fun, and it stars my director ;-p )

Interplayers presents Cowgirls, the musical where classical butts into cowboy country. Your Wednesday Matinee hostess plays Jo, the owner of a bar that needs to blow the roof off on opening weekend and mistakenly hires a classical trio. Jan 29-Feb 14, 2009

Les Misbarack: Showtunes for Obama?

A friend passed along a YouTube video from the Ultimate Improv group, using "One Day More" from Les Miserables as a political parody. It's the night before the election, the scene is the Obama election headquarters. A couple of campaign workers realize their time together might be over, and in comes McCain and Palin singing Javier and Mrs. Thernardier. Yes, it's true that most theatre people I know are 'liberals' and Democratic liberals at that, so the Obama support shouldn't surprise people. Nonetheless it's a cute job of lip-syncing no matter the political position.


While at that political video I noticed another for "Do You Hear the People Sing." Made by someone else, this takes images of anti-war protests and from the economic difficulties that some still term a "downturn" and uses it to connect the Bush administration to McCain and boost Obama.


By the way, while I'm on the topic of YouTube videos, there are several videos of musical theater productions or homemade videos of famous movie or TV clips put to the tune of a musical, such as Avenue Q's "The Internet is for Porn" setting for images of Harry Potter movies.

So where are the playlists?

You know, I love computers and I also despise them. I wouldn't be able to do the Matinee without my MP3s of musical theater songs tucked away on a big portable hard disc, and my great flexible music database program. But every once in a while, the scripts that are supposed to make the technical aspects easy go berserk. A couple of functions now return errors that I haven't had time to fix ;-p So playlists are delayed. I have the info, just not easily portable to the rest of the listening audience. So thanks for listening, I'll work on getting my computer programs to cooperate better, and consider the playlister on vacation. (If Car Talk can send the Puzzler off...)

July 30: New Releases

South Pacific [2008 Broadway Cast] - Bali Ha'i (Reprise), Cast (Sony Classics)
South Pacific [2008 Broadway Cast] - Younger Than Springtime, Matthew Morrison (Sony Classics)
In the Heights Disc 1 - It Won't Be Long Now, Karen Olivo
In the Heights Disc 1 - Breathe, Mandy Gonzalez (Ghostlight)
Mamma Mia - Winner Takes It All, Meryl Streep
A Catered Affair [Broadway Cast] - I Stayed, Tom Wopat (P.S. Classics)
Adding Machine - Didn't We?, Joel Hatch/Cyrilla Baer
Adding Machine - I'd Rather Watch You (revised), Cast
Adrift in Macao - Adrift in Macao, Cast
Adrift in Macao - Rick's Song radio edit, Cast
Forbidden Broadway: Rude Awakening - The Be-Littled Mermaid (Part of Your World), Gerard Alessandrini (DRG)
The Little Mermaid [Original Broadway Cast] - She's in Love, Cast (Disney)
Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust - Disneyland [From Smile], Kerry Butler (P.S. Classics)
Wonder in the World - Make Someone Happy, Kelli O'Hara (Razor & Tie)

July 9: Jerry Herman

Open A New Window - Angela Lansbury, Mame - 1966 Broadway
I Put My Hand In - Pearl Bailey, Hello, Dolly! [1967 Cast Recording] (RCA)
Shalom - Jerry Herman, An Evening With Jerry Herman
It Only Takes a Moment - Emily Yancy/Jack Crowder, Hello, Dolly! [1967 Cast Recording] (RCA)
Before the Parade Passes By - Carol Channing, Star Spangled Rhythm (Smithsonian Collection)
It's Today - Angela Lansbury, Mame - 1966 Broadway
Gooch's Song - Jane Connell, Mame - 1966 Broadway
Each Tomorrow Morning - Angela Lansbury, Dear World [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
I Don't Want to Know - Angela Lansbury, Dear World [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
I Won't Send Roses - Howard McGillin, Mack & Mabel [1995 London Cast] (Capitol)
Whereever He Ain't - Caroline O'Connor, Mack & Mabel [1995 London Cast] (Capitol)
Look over There - Gene Barry, La Cage aux Folles [Original Cast] (RCA)
La Cage aux Folles - Jerry Herman, La Cage aux Folles [Original Cast] ()
I Wanna Live Each Night - Christine Baranski, Miss Spectacular (DRG)

July 2: Independence Day

I Want to Hear a Yankee Doodle Tune - George M. Cohan, Star Spangled Rhythm [Smithsonian] Disc 1 (Smithsonian Collection)
Yankee Doodle Dandy - Joel Grey, Company, George M! [Original Cast]
Yankee Doodle Rhythm - George Gershwin, Strike Up the Band
What a Country - Ray Bolger, All American [Original Cast] (Sony Classical)
God's Country - Judy Kaye, Americanegro Suite (PM)
The Country's in the Very Best of Hands - George Reeder/Peter Palmer, Li'l Abner [Original Broadway Cast] [Expanded] (Sony Classical/Legacy)
Piddle, Twiddle and Resolve - William Daniels/Virginia Vestoff, 1776 [Original Broadway Cast]
But, Mr. Adams - David Vosburgh/Ken Howard/Le Clair, Henry/Rex Everhart/William Daniels, 1776 [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony Classical)
Cool, Cool, Considerate Men - Cast, 1776 [New Broadway Cast] (TVT)
The Egg - Ken Howard/Rex Everhart/William Daniels, 1776 [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony Classical)
Is Anybody There? - Brent Spiner, 1776 [New Broadway Cast] (TVT)
God Bless America - Kate Smith, This Is the Army [Original Broadway Cast]
Freedom - Bing Crosby, Holiday Inn [Film] (MCA)
Strike up the Band - George Gershwin, Strike Up the Band (Nonesuch)

Great American Songbook: Shameless self-promotion

If you didn't see the Great American Songbook at CenterStage last spring, there's one more chance to enjoy the music of Cole Porter and the Gershwins this Sunday evening, this time in Post Falls. We're moving the show to The Old Church at the corner of Fourth and William Street, off of I-90's Spokane St. Exit. Doors open at 6 (food served), show at 7p.

The show: a musical revue of familiar and unfamiliar songs such as Night and Day, S'Wonderful, Well Did You Evah, and But Not For Me. Includes some interesting anecdotes about the composers, written by Reed McColm (who also directed).

The cast: Tamara Schupman (currently performing at Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre), Kent Kimball (star of many shows in the region, most recently with Spokane Opera), Pamela Brownlee and Sam Mazola (both of the Rockin' B Ranch) and me, Janean Jorgensen (host of the Wednesday Matinee radio show on KPBX). We're accompanied by the fabulous Janet Robel (who just added a baby boy to the family - Congratulations!)

Tickets are $17, available at (208) 457-8950. Hope to see you there!

June 25: Villians

Bargain The Waltz Of Treachery - Les Mis, Les Miserables - Complete Symphonic Recording
Bad Companions - Gene Varrone/Margaret Hamilton/Nathaniel Frey/Richard Armbruster, Goldilocks (Sony)
Bring Me My Bride - Cris Grienendaal, Nathan Lane, Cast, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum [Angel]
Kismet/Was I Wazir? - George Forrest, Kismet [Original Broadway Cast] (Naxos Musicals)
A Powerful Thing - Gregory Harrison/Ronn Carroll, Steel Pier [Original Cast] (RCA)
Me and My Town - Angela Lansbury/Harvey Evans/Larry Roquemore/Sterling Clark/Tucker Smith, Anyone Can Whistle [Original Broadway Cast] [Bonus Tracks] (Sony Classical)
Those Were the Good Old Days - Ray Walston, Damn Yankees [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
I Want the Good Times Back - Sherie Rene Scott, The Little Mermaid [Original Broadway Cast] (Disney)
Fie on Goodness - The Knights, Camelot [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
The Seven Deadly Virtues - Roddy McDowall, Camelot [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
Hook's Tango - Cyril Ritchard, Peter Pan [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
Tarantella - Cyril Ritchard, Peter Pan [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
Alive - Bob Cuccioli, Jekyll & Hyde [Original Broadway Cast] (Atlantic)
Molasses to Rum - Clifford David, 1776 [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony Classical)
Lonely Room - Oklahoma, ()
No Good Deed - Idina Menzel, Wicked (Decca)
Everybody's Got the Right - Cast, Assassins [Original Broadway Cast] (P.S. Classics)

June 18: Tony Award Wrap-Up

Playlist: I'll have to post this later due to technical difficulties. Thanks to the labels Ghostlight Records and PS Classics for providing some of the music heard today, and for taking a chance on new theater music!

I occasionally listen to other radio shows celebrating the music of musical theater, and frankly the ones heard on public radio most often are stuck in the 'golden age' of Broadway. If it's not Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe or the Gershwins, it's not really given much airtime; even their "new releases" episodes thrive on the re-releases of old original cast albums. The host of one of these shows did a Tony awards preview last week and, while he didn't overtly editorialize, he commented that "almost all of the new musicals have a mostly-rock-driven score." He wrapped up with a golden oldie from an old show glorifying Broadway, which had nothing to do with this year's season but was a 'tribute' to what used to be. I might be putting words in his mouth, but the impression was that musical theater has evolved for the worse and today's shows are just not as good. I am of the opposite viewpoint. I do think that some of these shows will have strong lives beyond Broadway and yes, we may have revivals of some of these shows in future decades. Musical theater is alive and creating something new and interesting, and I'm happy to be along for the ride.

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.

Spokane Civic Theater presents Man of La Mancha from May 16 to Jun 15 at Main Stage. The tale of Don Quixote as directed by Troy Nickerson.

Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre presents All Shook Up from Jun 7 to Jun 21 at NIC Schuler Performing Arts Center. The Northwest Premiere of the Elvis jukebox musical that gave local favorite Cheyenne Jackson his big break on Broadway,

Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre presents La Cage aux Folles from Jun 27 to Jul 12 at NIC Schuler Performing Arts Center. Jerry Herman's groundbreaking celebration of family values and the real meaning of love.

Leavenworth Summer Theater presents The Sound of Music from Jul 4 to Aug 31 at Ski Hill Amphitheater, Leavenworth. Their ads call it the most popular production in Washington State history, it's certainly one of the most unique summer theater experiences. The sun goes down and Maria begins "The Hills are Alive" as the 'alps' of Leavenworth seem to spring to life.

Leavenworth Summer Theater presents Sugar from Jul 16 to Aug 29 at Hatchery Park, Leavenworth.

Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre presents Once Upon A Mattress from Jul 19 to Aug 2 at NIC Schuler Performing Arts Center. The musical version of the Princess And The Pea gets at the heart of the story with great twists.

Leavenworth Summer Theater presents Kiss Me Kate from Jul 30 to Aug 28 at FestHalle, Leavenworth. Cole Porter and the HOT silly version of Shakespeare's classic Taming of the Shrew

Coeur d'Alene Summer Theatre presents Les Misérables from Aug 9 to Aug 23 at NIC Schuler Performing Arts Center. A coup for Cd'A Summer Theatre, one of the longest-running musicals in the world.

June 11: Party

Somebody's Going to Throw a Big Party - Chorus, Fifty Million Frenchmen (New World)
The Policemen's Ball - Mary McCarty, Miss Liberty (Sony Classical)
Oh, Come to the Ball - Alan Jay Lerner, American Songbook Series: Alan Jay Lerner (Smithsonian Collection)
Goin' to the Dance With You - Kristin Chenoweth, Let Yourself Go (Sony)
The Hostess With the Mostes' on the Ball - Tyne Daly, Call Me Madam (Encores Concert Cast) (DRG)
Welcome to My Party - Michael John LaChiusa, The Wild Party [LaChiusa] (Universal)
A Wild Wild Party - Cast, Wild Party [Lippa]
Raise The Roof - Cast, Wild Party [Lippa]
The Life of the Party - David Wayne, The Happy Time (RCA)
The Life Of The Party - Idina Menzel, Wild Party [Lippa]
Well Did You Evah? - Company, High Society [Original Broadway Cast]
Shall We Dance? - Constance Towers, Yul Brynner, The King and I (Soundtrack) (RCA)
It Only Happens When I Dance With You - Fred Astaire, Steppin' Out: Astaire at MGM (Sony)
I Could Have Danced All Night - Julie Andrews, A Little Bit of Broadway (Columbia)
The Ugly Bug Ball [From Summer Magic] - Burl Ives, Classic Disney, Vol. 1 (Walt Disney/EMI)
The Party's Over - Judy Holliday, Bells Are Ringing [Original Broadway Cast] [Bonus Tracks] (Sony)

May 28: Parents

When the Children Are Asleep - Susan Watson/Reid Shelton, Carousel [1965 Broadway Revival Cast] (RCA)
Wheels of a Dream - Audra McDonald/Brian Mitchell, Ragtime [Original Cast Recording - RCA] (BMG)
More I Cannot Wish You - Pat Rooney, Sr., Guys and Dolls [Original Broadway Cast] [Bonus Tracks (Decca Broadway)
Other Pleasures - Kevin Colson, Aspects of Love [Original London Cast] Disc 2
Stop, Time (Big) - Liz Callaway, On and off Broadway: The Story Goes On (Varese)
Our Children - Marin Mazzie/Peter Friedman, Ragtime [Original Cast Recording - RCA] (BMG)
No Matter What - Susan Egan, Tom Bosley, Beauty and the Beast [Original Broadway Cast Recording] [Special Edition] (Universal)
Fathers of Fathers - Brent Barrett/Patrick Scott Brady/Richard Muenz, Closer Than Ever [Original Cast] Disc 2 (RCA)
Fathers and Sons - Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Schwartz Album
My Heart Belongs to Daddy [From Leave It to Me!] - Mary Martin, American Musical Theater: Shows, Songs and Stars, Vol. 2 (Smithsonian)
Hey There, Single Guy/Gal - Danny Burstein/Jennifer Simard, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
The Baby Song - Danny Burstein, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
Fandango - Lynne Wintersteller/Richard Muenz, Closer Than Ever [Original Cast] Disc 2 (RCA)
Marriage Tango - Melissa Weil/Robert Roznowski, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (Varese Sarabande)
Kids - Marijane Maricle/Paul Lynde, Bye Bye Birdie [Original Broadway Cast Recording] (Sony Classical)
Kids (Reprise) - Johnny Borden/Marijane Maricle/Parents/Paul Lynde, Bye Bye Birdie [Original Broadway Cast Recording] (Sony Classical)
Everyone Hates His Parents - Chip Zien, Danny Gerard, Faith Prince, Michael Rupert, Falsettoland [Original Off-Broadway Cast] (DRG)

May 21 Irving Berlin

You'd Be Surprised - Eddie Cantor, Star Spangled Rhythm [Smithsonian] Disc 1 (Smithsonian Collection)
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] (Howard's)
Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning [From This Is the Army] - Irving Berlin, American Musical Theater: Shows, Songs and Stars, Vol. 2 (Smithsonian)
Rock-A-Bye Baby (Music Box Revue of 1924) - Grace Moore/Rosario Bourdon, The Ultimate Irving Berlin, Vol. 2 (Pearl)
Heat Wave - Ben Selvin/Ethel Waters, Great American Songwriters, Vol. 4: Irving Berlin (Rhino)
Blue Skies - Al Jolson, Let Me Sing and I'm Happy: At Warner Bros. 1926-1936 (Turner)
Puttin' on the Ritz [From Idiot's Delight] - Clark Gable, Somewhere Over the Rainbow: The Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals Disc 1 (Rhino)
Steppin' Out With My Baby - Fred Astaire, Fred Astaire at MGM Disc 1 (Turner/Rhino)
They Say It's Wonderful [Outtake] (Annie Get Your Gun) - Howard Keel/Judy Garland, Romantic Duets from MGM Classics (Turner/Rhino)
My Defenses Are Down - Ron Raines, Broadway Passion (That's Entertainment)
Anything You Can Do - John Raitt/Mary Martin, Annie Get Your Gun [TV Soundtrack] (Angel)
You're Just in Love - Tyne Daly, Call Me Madam [Original Soundtrack] (DRG)
Falling out of Love Can Be Fun - Anastasia Barzee/Karen Morrow/Meredith Patterson, White Christmas [Original Studio Cast] (Ghostlight)
Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep - Cast of Annie Get Your Gun, Carols For A Cure 2000 (Rock-It Science)

May 7: Bing Crosby

Somewhere Over the Rainbow: The Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals Disc 1 - True Love [From High Society], Bing Crosby/Grace Kelly (Rhino)
King of Jazz - So The Bluebirds And The Blackbirds, Bing Crosby
One More Chance - Just One More Chance, Bing Crosby
Big Broadcast - Please, Bing Crosby
I Surrender Dear - At Your Command, Bing Crosby
Blue of the Night - Where The Blue of the Night, Bing Crosby
Going Hollywood - We'll Make Hay While The Sun Shines, Bing Crosby
College Humor - Moonstruck, Bing Crosby
Star Spangled Rhythm [Smithsonian] Disc 1 - Thanks/Buckin' the Wind, Bing Crosby/Nat Finston & Paramount Studio Orchestra (Smithsonian Collection)
Anything Goes - You're The Top, Bing Crosby/Ethel Merman
Road to Utopia - Put It There Pal, Bing Crosby/Bob Hope
Road to Morocco - Moonlight Becomes You song, Bing Crosby
Going My Way - Swingin On A Star, Bing Crosby
Holiday Inn - Lazy, Bing Crosby
High Society - Well Did You Evah, Bing Crosby/Frank Sinatra

Apr 16: Paris

Welcome to Paris - William Perry, Mark Twain [Original Cast] (Premier)
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)
Ah Paris - , Follies
Stranger in Paris - Jeannette MacDonald, The New Moon
Paris Holds the Key (To Your Heart) - Bernadette Peters, Anastasia [Atlantic]
I Love Paris (Can Can) - Georgia Gibbs, The Best Of Broadway - The Early '50s
Paris Wakes up and Smiles - Allyn McLerie/Thompson, Johnny V.R. Thompson, Miss Liberty (Sony Classical)
Paris Loves Lovers - Don Ameche/Hildegarde Neff, Silk Stockings [Original Broadway Cast]
Paris Stay the Same - Maurice Chevalier, The Love Parade
Bidin' My Time (French Reprise) - Jeremy Harrison/Jon Clairmonte/Kieran Mcllroy, Crazy for You [Original London Cast]
French Lesson - Adolph Green/Betty Comden, Perform Their Own Songs (DRG)
Corner of the Rue Cambon - Katharine Hepburn, Coco [Original Broadway Cast]
Paris Original - Kristi Lynes/Lillias White/Megan Mullally/Victoria Clark, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [New Broadway Cast] (RCA)
The Parisians - Betty Wand, Gigi (Turner)
I Hate the French - Patrick Wilson, Richard Kind, Bright Lights, Big City [Original Cast]
The Last Time I Saw Paris (Lady Be Good) - Ann Southern, Music From MGM Classics
Paris Is Paris Again - Alfred Drake, Gigi [Original Cast] (RCA)You Don't Know Paree - Howard McGillin, Fifty Million Frenchmen (New World)
April in Paris - Dawn Upshaw, Sings Vernon Duke (Nonesuch)

Apr 9: Beefy Baritones

Gordon MacRae - Oh, What a Beautiful Morning, Oklahoma! [MCA/Capitol] (Snapper)
Don Ameche/Hildegarde Neff - All of You, Silk Stockings [Original Broadway Cast]
Burke Moses, Susan Egan - Me, Beauty and the Beast [Original Broadway Cast Recording] [Special Edition]
Howard Keel - Where's The Mate For Me? (Gambler's Song), Show Boat (Sony Classical)
John Raitt - I'm a Bad, Bad Man, Annie Get Your Gun [TV Soundtrack] (Angel)
Kevin Kline - Oh, Better Far to Live and Die, The Pirates of Penzance [Original Broadway Cast] [CD] Disc 1
Stanley Holloway - Get Me to the Church on Time, My Fair Lady [Original Broadway Cast] [2002 Bonus Tracks] (Sony)
James Naughton - All I Care About, Chicago [RCA] (RCA)
Peter Gallagher - Luck Be a Lady, Guys and Dolls [1992 Broadway Revival Cast] (RCA Victor)
Paul Robeson - Old Man River (Paul Robson & original broadway cast - extended play), Showboat
Ron Raines - Dulcinea, Broadway Passion (That's Entertainment)
Robert Meadmore - If Ever I Would Leave You [From Camelot], Greatest Love Songs From Musicals (MCI Musicals)
Brian Stokes Mitchell - This Nearly Was Mine, South Pacific in Concert from Carnegie Hall (Decca Broadway)
Terrence Mann - Stars, Les Miserables [Original Broadway Cast] Disc 1 (Geffen/Decca US)
Tommy Koerberg - Anthem, Chess Disc 1 (Polygram)
Len Cariou, Laurence Guittard - It Would Have Been Wonderful, A Little Night Music (That's Entertainment/ Sony)

Apr 2: Wiser Women

Broadway Baby (Follies) - Elaine Stritch, (DRG)
Everything's Coming Up Roses - Ethel Merman, Gypsy [Original Broadway Cast] (Nonesuch)
Before the Parade Passes By - Carol Channing, Star Spangled Rhythm [Smithsonian] Disc 3 (Smithsonian Collection)
Hello, Young Lovers [From The King and I] - Valerie Masterson, Greatest Love Songs From Musicals (MCI Musicals)
Bali Ha'i - Lillias White, South Pacific in Concert from Carnegie Hall (Decca Broadway)
Little Girls - Dorothy Loudon, Annie [Original Broadway Cast] [Remastered] (That's Entertainment/Sony)
And I Was Beautiful - Angela Lansbury, Dear World [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
Memory [From Cats] - Elaine Paige, Hey Mr. Producer!: The Musical World of Cameron MacKintosh Disc 2 (404 Music Group/Phillips)
As If We Never Said Goodbye [Sunset Blvd.] - Elaine Paige, Ultimate Broadway Disc 2 (Arista)
Send in the Clowns (A Little Night Music) - Judi Dench, Hey Mr. Producer!: The Musical World of Cameron MacKintosh Disc 2 (404 Music Group/Phillips)
The Ladies Who Lunch - Elaine Stritch, Star Spangled Rhythm [Smithsonian] Disc 4
I'm Still Here [Follies] - Nancy Walker, Sondheim: A Musical Tribute Disc 2 (RCA Victor)