June 24: There's No Business Like Show Business

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

June 17: Fathers

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

June 10: Cy Coleman

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

Tony Awards on Sunday!

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

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

June 3: Kander & Ebb

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

May 27: Comedy Songs

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

Mar 20: Mothers

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

Shows and Showtunes in the Region

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

May 6: Bernadette Peters

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

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

Apr 29: Sondheim

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

Mar 11: Gardens

Winter's on the Wing - The Secret Garden [Original Broadway Cast] (Original Cast Record)
The Springtime Cometh - Irwin Corey, Flahooley
Green-Up Time [From Love Life] - Lotte Lenya, Lotte Lenya Sings American & Berlin Theater Songs of Kurt Weill (Sony)
Hurry! It's Lovely up Here! [From On a Clear Day You Can See Forever] - Bryn Terfel, If Ever I Would Leave You: The Songs Alan Jay Lerner (Polygram)
The flowers that bloom in the spring, tra la - D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Mikado ()
Edelweiss - Theodore Bikel, The Sound of Music [Original Broadway Cast] [Bonus Tracks] (Sony BMG)
Spring Is Here - Julie Andrews, Broadway: The Music of Richard Rodgers
One More Walk Aroun the Garden - Julie Andrews, Here I'll Stay: The Words of Alan Jay Lerner (Philips)
Come to My Garden/Lift Me Up - The Secret Garden [Original Broadway Cast]
Wick - The Secret Garden [Original Broadway Cast]
Somewhere That's Green (Little Shop Of Horrors) - Ellen Greene, Hey Mr. Producer (404 Music Group/Phillips)
Make Our Garden Grow - New Broadway Cast Recording, Candide (RCA)
The Fantasticks/Plant a Radish - Harvey Schmidt, The Fantasticks [2006 Off Broadway Recording] (Ghostlight)
Mountain Greenery - Dawn Upshaw, Sings Rodgers & Hart
The Apple Tree (Forbidden Fruit) - Larry Byden, The Apple Tree [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
The Spring of Next Year - Joe Masiell, William Larsen, Clifford Fearl, Charles Karel, Zale Kessler, Charles Welch, Dear World [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)

Mar 4: Vincent Youmans

Take a Little One Step - , Lollipop
Tea for Two - No No Nanette
Too Many Rings Around Rosie - No No Nanette
You Can Dance WIth Any Girl At All - Helen Gallagher, No No Nanette 1971 Revival
Telephone Girlie - Bobby Van, No No Nanette 1971 Revival
Hallelujah [From Hit the Deck] - Ann Miller; Clark Burroughs; Debbie Reynolds; Kay Armen; Tony Martin; Vic Damone, Somewhere Over the Rainbow: The Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals Disc 1 (Rhino)
I Know That You Know (Hit the Deck) - Jane Powell; Vic Damone, Romantic Duets from MGM Classics (Turner/Rhino)
Sometimes I'm Happy - Charles King; Louise Groody, Star Spangled Rhythm [Smithsonian] Disc 1 (Smithsonian Collection)
The Carioca Song - Etta Moten, Flying Down to Rio
Flying Down to Rio Song - Fred Astaire, Flying Down to Rio
You're Everywhere - Brent Barrett, Through the Years
Through the Years - Heidi Grant Murphy, Through the Years
Kinda Like You - Hunter Foster, Jennifer Cody, Through the Years
Lucky Bird - Joan Morris, Carioca: Songs Of Vincent Youmans, Vol. 2
Without A Song - Robert White, Orchids in the Moonlight: Songs of Vincent Youmans
Soft Eyes - Vincent Youmans, Carioca: Songs Of Vincent Youmans, Vol. 2

Feb 25: Car Tunes

Henry Ford - Larry Daggett, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Ragtime [Original Broadway Cast Disc 1]
Driving at Night - Cast, State Fair
Waiting for Life - La Chanze, Once on This Island [RCA]
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Carrie Fletcher; Emma Williams; George Gillies; Michael Ball, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [Original London Cast]
Travel Hopefully - Don Stephenson; John Scherer; Martin Jarvis, By Jeeves [Original Broadway Cast]
Lovin' Al - Original Cast, Working [Original Cast Recording] (Varese Sarabande)
Brother Trucker - James Taylor, Working
Traffic Jam - James Taylor, Working
Road Kill - Cast, The Great American Trailer Park Musical
Come Up to My Place (Taxi Number) - Cris Alexander; Nancy Walker, On the Town [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony Classical)
On the Highway of Love - Danny Burstein, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (Varese Sarabande)
Beep Beep - The Playmates
Greased Lightnin' - Original Broadway Cast, Grease
Alone at a Drive-In Movie - Jim Jacobs, Grease
Wheels - Barbara Walsh, A My Name Will Always Be Alice
Wheels of a Dream - Audra McDonald; Brian Mitchell, Ragtime [Original Cast Recording - RCA] (BMG)

Feb 18: Down With Love

Down with Love - Barbra Streisand, Live in Concert 2006 Disc 1 (Columbia)
You Can Always Count on Me - Randy Graff, City of Angels [Original Broadway Cast] (Columbia)
If - Adolph Green; Betty Comden, Perform Their Own Songs (DRG)
The Love of my Life - Judy Kaye, Brigadoon (Redline)
Making Love Alone - Bernadette Peters, Sondheim, Etc.: Live at Carnegie Hall (Angel)
Economics [From Love Life] - Brent Barrett, The Alan Jay Lerner Album (Fynsworth Alley)
In the Broken Promise Land of Fifteen [from Lolita, My Love] - Brent Barrett, The Alan Jay Lerner Album (Fynsworth Alley)
It Would Have Been Wonderful (from Annie Warbucks) - Jason Graae, You're Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile: The Songs of Charles Strouse
Where Is the Warmth? - Patti LuPone, The Baker's Wife [Original Cast Recording] (Take Home Tunes)
When She Loved Me [From Toy Story 2] - Kerry Butler, Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust (P.S. Classics)
Falling Out of Love Can Be Fun - Mary McCarty, Miss Liberty (Sony Classical)
One Hundred Easy Ways - Kim Criswell, Wonderful Town [1999 Studio Cast] (EMI Classics)Rocks in My Bed - De Shield, Andre; Larry Marshall, Play On [Original Broadway Cast] (Varese)

Feb 11: Broadway In Love

If Ever I Would Leave You (Camelot) - Robert Goulet, Golden Memories of Stage & Screen Disc 1 (RCA)
All the Things You Are - Bruce Hubbard, Great American Songwriters [Capitol] (Capitol)
I Got Lost in His Arms - Mary Martin, Annie Get Your Gun [TV Soundtrack] (Angel)
Unusual Way - Elaine Paige, Jonathan Price, Nine (Sony Classical)
A Quiet Thing - Jim Walton; Karen Ziémba, And the World Goes 'Round
Bill - Christine Andreas, Here's to the Ladies (Image)
What Makes Me Love Him? - Barbara Harris, The Apple Tree [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
I Have a Love [From West Side Story] - Andréa Burns, A Deeper Shade of Red (P.S. Classics)
My Funny Valentine - Kristin Chenoweth, Let Yourself Go (Sony)
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What More Can I Say - Michael Rupert, Falsettoland [Original Off-Broadway Cast] (DRG)
You Walk With Me - Jason Danieley; Ted Sperling; Romain Frugé, The Full Monty [Original Broadway Cast] (RCA)
I Love My Wife - Lenny Baker, I Love My Wife [Orig. Cast] (Disques Swing)
Shouldn't I Be Less in Love With You? - Robert Roznowski, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (Varese Sarabande)
The Human Heart - Andrea Frierson, Broadway in Love (RCA)

Jan 28: Baby Songs

Me and My Baby - Ann Reinking, James Naughton, Chicago [RCA]
The Baby Song - Danny Burstein, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change (Varese Sarabande)
Fandango - Lynne Wintersteller; Richard Muenz, Closer Than Ever [Original Cast] Disc 2 (RCA)
Triplets - Fred Astaire; Jack Buchanan; Nanette Fabray, The Band Wagon (Columbia/Rhino)
It's a Fish - Alan Alda, The Apple Tree [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
Go to Sleep, Whatever You Are - Barbara Harris, The Apple Tree [Original Broadway Cast] (Sony)
Somebody Gonna Love You - LaChanze, The Color Purple [Original Broadway Cast] (Angel)
You'll Be In My Heart - Kala, Ensemble, Tarzan: The Musical (Disney Records)
Baby Mine [From Dumbo (1941)] - Betty Noyes, Classic Disney, Vol. 4 (Disney International)
Children Will Listen - Bernadette Peters, Sondheim, Etc., Etc.: Live at Carnegie Hall -- The Rest of It (Angel)
A Father Now - Jerry Colker, 3 Guys Naked from the Waist Down (Jay)
It's a Boy edit - John Cullum, Shenandoah
Soliloquy - John Raitt, Carousel [1965 Broadway Revival Cast] (RCA)
My Child - Blood Brothers [International Cast Recording]
The Story Goes On (Baby) - Liz Callaway, On and off Broadway: The Story Goes On (Varese)
I Won't Mind - Audra McDonald, How Glory Goes (Elektra/Asylum)
Stop, Time - Barbara Walsh, Big (Uptown/Universal)

Jan 21: 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 - Alan Menken, 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)

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]