June 29: America

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

June 22: Wheels

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

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

June 15: We're Family

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

June 8: "Yip" Harburg

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

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

June 1: Class Struggle

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

May 25: Unusual Love Songs

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

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

May 18: Stephen Schwartz

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We Beseech Thee - Cast, Godspell [2001 National Touring Cast Recording] (DRG)
Simple Song - Barbara Cook, It's Better With A Band
Corner Of The Sky - John Rubinstein, Pippin OBC
It's an Art - Original Cast, Working [Original Cast Recording] (Varese Sarabande)
Lion Tamer [From the Magic Show] - Kristin Chenoweth, The Stephen Schwartz Album (Varèse Sarabande)
Where Is the Warmth? - Patti LuPone, The Baker's Wife [Original Cast Recording] (Original Cast Record)
In Whatever Time We Have - Darius de Haas; Kelli Rabke, Children of Eden [Original Cast Highlights] (RCA Records)
Defying Gravity - Idina Menzel; Kristin Chenoweth, Wicked (Decca)
Colors of the Wind [From Pocahontas] - Judy Kuhn, Classic Disney, Vol. 3 (Disney International)
The Bells of Notre Dame - Cast, On the Record Disc 2
God Help the Outcasts [From The Hunchback of Notre Dame] - Heidi Mollenhauer, Classic Disney, Vol. 5
Deliver Us/River Lullaby - Eden Riegel; Ofra Haza, Prince of Egypt
Just Because It's Magic - Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Drew Carey, Geppetto
That's How You Know (As Used in the Film Enchanted) - Amy Adams, Enchanted [Original Soundtrack] (EMI Music Distribution)
On the Wings of a Swan - Kristoffer Cusick, Lost

Musicfest Northwest

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

May 4: Irving Berlin

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




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

April 27: Friends and Frenemies

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All Our Friends - Harvey Evans, Joel Grey, George M! [Original Cast] (Sony)
Me and My Shadow - Cheyenne Jackson; Michael Feinstein, The Power of Two (Harbinger Records)
I Wan'na Be Like You [From The Jungle Book] - Disney, Buddy Songs ()
Old Friends, Pt. 2 - Malcolm Gets, Michelle Pawk, Merrily We Roll Along [1994 Off-Broadway Revival Cast] (Colosseum)
Together, Wherever We Go - Bernadette Peters; John Dossett; Tammy Blanchard, Gypsy [The New Broadway Cast Recording] (Capitol)
We Go Together - Original London Cast Recording, Grease [1993 London] ()
Let's Be Buddies - Ethel Merman; Joan Carroll, From This Moment On: The Songs of Cole Porter Disc 2 (Smithsonian Collection)
Buddies - Robert & Richard Sherman, Snoopy Come Home ()
You've Got A Friend In Me (Whe - Robert Goulet, Toy Story 2 ()
Ya Got Me (On The Town) - Scott Wise, Michael Kubala, Debbie Shapiro, Mary Ellen Stuart, Jerome Robbins' Broadway Disc 1 (RCA)
What It Means to Be a Friend - Allie Trimm, 13 [Original Cast] (Ghostlight)
Big-Ass Rock - Jason Danieley; John Ellison Conlee; Patrick Wilson, The Full Monty [Original Broadway Cast] ()
Til Him - Matthew Broderick; Nathan Lane, The Producers [Original Broadway Cast Recording] ()
My Buddy/Old Friend - Ann Hampton Callaway, Sibling Revelry ()
Drink With Me - Anthony Warlow, Michael Ball, Les Miserables - Complete Symphonic Recording (Relativity, Red Ink)
For Good - Idina Menzel; Kristin Chenoweth, Wicked ()

April 20: Andrew Lloyd Webber

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

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

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

Last week's show coming...

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

Apr 6: April In Paris

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

Mar 30 - Live at KPBX!

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

Mar 23: Stephen Sondheim

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

Mar 16: Happily Ever After

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

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

Calendar of Musical Theatre Events

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

There's No Business Like Show Business

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Willkommen - Joel Grey, Cabaret (Sony)
Welcome to the Theatre - Lauren Bacall, Applause (Decca U.S.)
There's No Tune Like a Show Tune - , Front Row Center: The Broadway Gold Box, 1935-1988 Disc 4 (Decca)
Lullaby of Broadway - Winifred Shaw, Dick Powell, Somewhere Over the Rainbow: The Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals Disc 1 (Rhino / Wea)
Broadway Baby - Debbie Shapiro Gravitte, Gala Concert for Hal Prince Disc 2 (Tristar/First Night Records)
Broadway Boogie Woogie - Carolee Carmello, A Class Act: A Musical About Musicals (RCA)
A Summer in Ohio - Sherie Ren?cott, The Last Five Years
Nothing - Priscilla Lopez, A Chorus Line [Original Broadway Cast] (Beat Goes On)
She's No Longer a Gypsy - Cast, Applause (Decca U.S.)
There's Nothing Like a Show on Broadway - Mel Brooks, The Producers [2005 Soundtrack] (Sony)
Opening Night - Company, The Producers [Original Broadway Cast Recording] (Sony Classical)
Backstage Babble - Len Cariou, Cast, Applause (Decca U.S.)
Show People - Debra Monk, David Hyde Pierce, Cast, Curtains (Manhattan Records)
I Hate Musicals - Rita McKenzie, Ruthless [Los Angeles Cast] (Colosseum)
Jeanette's Showbiz Number - Kathy Freeman; Kimberly Grigsby; Ted Sperling; The Men, The Full Monty [Original Broadway Cast]
Life upon the Wicked Stage - Jan Hunter, Show Boat [1971 London Revival Cast] [Highlights] (Delta)
Make 'Em Laugh - Donald O'Conner, Singin' In the Rain (Turner)
I Want to Make Magic - Gavin Creel, Fame [Original Cast Recording] (DRG)
There's No Business Like Show Business - John Raitt; Mary Martin, Annie Get Your Gun [TV Soundtrack] (Angel)

March 2: Lerner & Loewe

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

Christian Lite

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