WFMU: Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from March 26, 2021

Listener comments!
	🎭 ♥ 7:00pm Listener Gregory: Why should we limit ourselves to a touch? Also, good evening.
	♥ 7:01pm Bronwyn Bishop: Good evening Gregory :)))
	♥ 7:02pm Bronwyn Bishop: Two more generous pledgers I want to thank who helped us reach our goal (sorry I forgot to thank you in the actual show): Benjamin F. and Nacho Bravo!
	🎭 ♥ 7:02pm doctorjazz: Hey Bronwyn, LG, Jazzers!
	♥ 7:02pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hey doctorjazz!! :D
	🎭 ♥ 7:03pm Listener Gregory: @doctorj!
	🎭 ♥ 7:04pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Bronwyn! villain songs tonight?
	♥ 7:05pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hi Henry!!! YES!!! :D
	🎭 ♥ 7:05pm Listener Gregory: Honestly, I didn't wait for your villain's show. I started on villainy on my own.
	🎭 ♥ 7:05pm Webhamster Henry: This is going to be fun!
	♥ 7:07pm Bronwyn Bishop: this was released as a single, guys. a single!
	🎭 ♥ 7:11pm Listener Gregory: Is that Leslie Nielson on the cover of the soundtrack??
	🎭 ♥ 7:11pm Webhamster Henry: Bruce Kimmel was also responsible for THE FIRST NUDIE MUSICAL.
	🎭 ♥ 7:14pm Listener Gregory: He's not a bad man, just a bad wizard!
	♥ 7:15pm Bronwyn Bishop: this was written by john entwistle instead of pete townshend like all 300 other songs in tommy. i wonder why??
	7:17pm Doug Schulkind: Bad guys? Good guise!
	🎭 ♥ 7:17pm diciassette: Ahoy! It's no more Mr Nice Guy, here at Acid Jazz Hands, innit
	7:24pm ;;;: I remember reading that Pete Townshend asked John Entwistle to write the two songs where Tommy was traumatized by relatives because doing so was too much for him and because creepy, dark songs were sort of John's specialty
	♥ 7:24pm Bronwyn Bishop: @Henry: Oh boy I'll have to check that out, whatever it is
	🎭 ♥ 7:24pm Listener Gregory: There are deep theological questions here, seriously. If Jesus was not condemned and crucified, then original sin would not have been atoned for, and humanity would not have been saved from eternal torment. So, are the people who did that really villains? Without them, there is no Christianity. Discuss.
	7:29pm Doug Schulkind: Thurl?
	🎭 ♥ 7:29pm Webhamster Henry: So Thurl!
	7:30pm Doug Schulkind: Thurltastic!
	🎭 ♥ 7:31pm Webhamster Henry: Thurltha!
	🎭 ♥ 7:34pm Listener Gregory: Thurly wundrful.
	♥ 7:43pm Bronwyn Bishop: @;;;: Thanks for the info, friendly collection of semicolons!
	♥ 7:43pm Bronwyn Bishop: Thurl and Eartha, two people who are probably the only people ever with their respective names
	🎭 ♥ 7:44pm Webhamster Henry: This is a pretty elaborate mockup!
	♥ 7:45pm Bronwyn Bishop: I like this demo because it sounds like Alan Menken is cosplaying as the Silver Apples with his crazy synths here (and because Howard Ashman goes BALLS OUT as Ursula)
	🎭 ♥ 7:51pm doctorjazz: The demo was really cool!
	♥ 7:53pm Bronwyn Bishop: they were too cool, they really were
	🎭 ♥ 7:54pm Listener Gregory: To my mind, the most evil character in the theater is Iago. Is there no musical version of "Othello"? I guess it wouldn't be the feel-good musical of the summer...
	♥ 7:55pm Bronwyn Bishop: both these 3 and the villain in the wiz like to sleep till noon. apparently villains love sleeping
	🎭 ♥ 7:56pm Listener Gregory: Richard III also very bad, and even less likely to appear in a musical, I would guess.
	🎭 ♥ 7:56pm diciassette: Cheers to the Annie contingent!
	♥ 7:58pm Bronwyn Bishop: @Gregory: There was an Othello musical called Catch My Soul which premiered in 1968 and allegedly had Jerry Lee Lewis playing Iago at some point. I don't think there's ever been a Richard III musical
	🎭 ♥ 7:58pm diciassette: ..from the Annie Contingent!
	🎭 ♥ 8:00pm Webhamster Henry: Not a musical, but the Ian McKellen Richard III is really good: www.imdb.com...
	🎭 ♥ 8:00pm Webhamster Henry: Shakespeare musicals could be another theme show.
	♥ 8:02pm Bronwyn Bishop: Great idea Henry!!!
	🎭 ♥ 8:02pm Listener Gregory: Benedict Cumberbatch also a great Richard III. But can he sing??? @BB, incredible that there’s a musical Othello. It is not a pleasant story, really.
	🎭 ♥ 8:05pm Webhamster Henry: I sing Bon Voyage a lot!
	♥ 8:10pm Bronwyn Bishop: I would love to witness this Henry
	🎭 ♥ 8:12pm Webhamster Henry: Well I had Shot #1 today .. maybe I can make it into NYC sometime this year!
	♥ 8:13pm Bronwyn Bishop: Congrats Henry!!! Someday we should have an NYC AJH meetup...like to watch the Tonys!!!
	🎭 ♥ 8:14pm Webhamster Henry: Or just to watch NPH sing "Bigger" about 10 times.
	🎭 ♥ 8:18pm Listener Gregory: Maybe what villains really deserve is our understanding.
	🎭 ♥ 8:28pm Listener Gregory: I haven't heard this song (My Name) for decades, yet I know most of the words. Real villainy.
	♥ 8:29pm Bronwyn Bishop: you remember...his name! He'd be thrilled
	🎭 ♥ 8:30pm Listener Gregory: I think that role is typically given to someone who can't actually sing. Every version I've heard is like that. It makes the song more threatening.
	♥ 8:31pm Bronwyn Bishop: That's a good point, I wouldn't feel very threatened if Mario Lanza sang it
	🎭 ♥ 8:45pm WR: hi all, just got off work call, trying to understand the plot line here.
	🎭 ♥ 8:46pm WR: was there more than one musical called Parade? or maybe I'm thinking Easter Parade. so confused here.
	🎭 ♥ 8:47pm diciassette: I've been sharpening knives to the music and a little behind myself
	🎭 ♥ 8:47pm Listener Gregory: More 1776!
	🎭 ♥ 8:48pm WR: diciassette: knives? for the mob?
	♥ 8:49pm Bronwyn Bishop: this is probably the most disturbing song in the history of musical theatre
	♥ 8:50pm Bronwyn Bishop: @WR: Jerry Herman also had an Off-Broadway revue in 1960 called Parade
	🎭 ♥ 8:50pm Listener Gregory: Yes, and part of its point is that they (we) were all the villains, some just more obvious than others.
	♥ 8:51pm Bronwyn Bishop: Yep this is a villain song because Rutledge is a scary mean baritone (and because he actually approves of slavery) but they were all complicit!
	🎭 ♥ 8:53pm WR: is the movie version of 1776 recommended? I see that John Cullum did the movie as well.
	🎭 ♥ 8:55pm Webhamster Henry: Johanna was cut from the original production, put on the cast album, and now often is in revivals.
	♥ 8:55pm Bronwyn Bishop: Yes it's brilliant! Cullum was actually not the original performer on Broadway, that was Clifford David (a tenor who was less intense and more slimy, his version is great too.) Cullum was Rutledge #3
	♥ 8:56pm Bronwyn Bishop: @Henry: We included it in our college version because of course we did
	🎭 ♥ 8:56pm doctorjazz: It was in my daughter's high school Sweeny Todd production, was truly weird. Thanks, Bronwyn, great show!
	🎭 ♥ 8:57pm Webhamster Henry: Judge Turpin was peeping at the diaphanously clad Johanna through the keyhole, says Sondheim on page 349 of Finishing The Hat
	♥ 8:57pm Bronwyn Bishop: That is exceedingly weird doctorjazz. In my HS we had a "senior showcase" where some girls did Big Spender...oy. (I did Poor Wandering One from The Pirates of Penzance)
	🎭 ♥ 8:58pm WR: Surprisingly it is the Jerry Herman Parade that i have a tiny bit of familiarity with due to the original cast record which I've seen around.
	🎭 ♥ 9:00pm diciassette: thanks bronwyn!
	🎭 ♥ 9:00pm Listener Gregory: I guess we're not going to hear Randy Newman as a really lovable Devil today. Excellent show, Bronwyn! Great variety of selections.
	🎭 ♥ 9:02pm Webhamster Henry: Overtime for Villainy!
	♥ 9:02pm Bronwyn Bishop: they demanded it!
	♥ 9:02pm Bronwyn Bishop: thank u all for listening darlings!!!
	🎭 ♥ 9:02pm doctorjazz: They would cheat!
	🎭 ♥ 9:03pm Listener Gregory: FYI. I strongly recommend the Ray Charles/Cleo Laine Porgy & Bess. Very contrasting styles, and Charles naturally knocks it out of the park.
	♥ 9:03pm Bronwyn Bishop: Imagine if all of these villains teamed up, we wouldn't stand a chance
	🎭 ♥ 9:03pm WR: oh, damn, that other Parade is about the Leo Frank lynching. the Holacast Musuem had amazing sad and scary exhibition about the Leo Frank lynching a few years ago. Chilling, it included history of other lynchings as well for context. Is this a happy song to finish with?
	🎭 ♥ 9:04pm doctorjazz: LG, I serving that Porgy and Bess!
	🎭 ♥ 9:05pm WR: thank you Bronwyn, laters all.
	🎭 ♥ 9:05pm Listener Gregory: @doctorj, you definitely DEserve it. I only have it on the original LP; not sure if it is available in any other form.
	🎭 ♥ 9:06pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks, you bad people, for singin' your evil little hearts out.

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from March 26, 2021

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March 26, 2021: Touch of Evil

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
David Bowie	Magic Dance "Magic Dance" by "David Bowie"	Labyrinth	EMI	1986	Music & Lyrics: David Bowie	0:00:00 (Pop-up)

Steve Martin	Dentist! "Dentist!" by "Steve Martin"	Dentist! (Little Shop of Horrors)	Geffen	2012	Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Howard Ashman	0:07:25 (Pop-up)
Ron Kurowski	I Want to Eat Your Face	The Creature Wasn't Nice	BSX Records	2012	Music & Lyrics: Bruce Kimmel	0:10:17 (Pop-up)
Mabel King	Don't Nobody Bring Me No Bad News	The Wiz	Geffen	2007	Music & Lyrics: Charlie Smalls	0:12:38 (Pop-up)
Paul Nicholas	Cousin Kevin "Cousin Kevin" by "Paul Nicholas"	Tommy	Polydor Ltd UK	2000	Music & Lyrics: John Entwistle	0:15:22 (Pop-up)
Rob Fowler & Bat Out of Hell Original Cast	In the Land of the Pig the Butcher Is King	Jim Steinman's Bat Out of Hell: The Musical (Original Cast Recording)	Ghostlight	2017	Music & Lyrics: Jim Steinman	0:18:56 (Pop-up)
Bob Bingham, Phil Jethro & Marc Pressel	This Jesus Must Die	Jesus Christ Superstar	Verve (Adult Contemporary)	2003	Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Tim Rice	0:21:34 (Pop-up)
Chris Cooper & Nathan Pacheco	Let's talk About Me	The Muppets (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)	Walt Disney Records	2011	Music & Lyrics: Ali Dee Theodore & Bret McKenzie	0:23:38 (Pop-up)

Kaye Ballard & Alice Ghostley	Stepsisters' Lament	Cinderella (Original Television Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	1999	Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II	0:27:17 (Pop-up)
Thurl Ravenscroft	The Headless Horseman	Disney Villains Songbook	Walt Disney Records	2020	Music & Lyrics: Don Raye & Gene de Paul	0:29:49 (Pop-up)
Eartha Kitt	Snuff Out the Light "Snuff Out the Light" by "Eartha Kitt"	The Emperor's New Groove	Walt Disney Records	2000	Music & Lyrics: David Hartley & Sting	0:34:22 (Pop-up)
Ciara Renee, Norbert Leo Butz & Big Fish Original Broadway Cast	The Witch	Big Fish (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Broadway Records	2014	Music & Lyrics: Andrew Lippa	0:36:08 (Pop-up)
Taylor Louderman & Original Broadway Cast of Mean Girls	World Burn	Mean Girls (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Atlantic Records	2018	Music: Jeff Richmond Lyrics: Nell Benjamin	0:37:57 (Pop-up)
Jon Jon Briones & Miss Saigon Cast	If You Want to Die in Bed	Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording	Polydor Records	2014	Music: Claude-Michel Schonberg Lyrics: Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr.	0:39:52 (Pop-up)
Howard Ashman & Alan Menken	Poor Unfortunate Souls (Final Synth Mockup)	Walt Disney Records the Legacy Collection: The Little Mermaid	Walt Disney Records	2014	Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Howard Ashman	0:43:59 (Pop-up)

Margaret Hamilton, Nathaniel Frey & Richard Armbruster	Bad Companions	Goldilocks (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	1992	Music: Leroy Anderson Lyrics: Jean Kerr, Walter Kerr & Joan Ford	0:51:18 (Pop-up)
Dorothy Loudon, Robert Fitch & Barbara Erwin	Easy Street	Annie (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	2007	Music: Charles Strouse Lyrics: Martin Charnin	0:54:08 (Pop-up)
Gregory Harrison & Ronn Carroll	A Powerful Thing	Steel Pier (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	2007	Music: John Kander Lyrics: Fred Ebb	0:58:23 (Pop-up)
Mandy Patinkin	Wouldn't It Be Nice	The Wild Party	Verve	2007	Music & Lyrics: Michael John LaChiusa	1:00:36 (Pop-up)
Joe Masiell, William Larsen & Clifford Fearl	The Spring of Next Year	Dear World (Original Broadway Cast)	Sony Classical	1969	Music & Lyrics: Jerry Herman	1:03:27 (Pop-up)
William Olvis & Original Broadway Cast of Candide	Bon Voyage	Candide (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	1956	Music: Leonard Bernstein Lyrics: Richard Wilbur	1:05:24 (Pop-up)
The Camelot Ensemble	Fie on Goodness	Camelot (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	1998	Music: Frederick Loewe Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner	1:07:34 (Pop-up)

Robert Westenberg & Danielle Ferland	Hello, Little Girl	Into the Woods (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	2007	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	1:13:22 (Pop-up)
Martin Gabel	I Shall Miss You "I Shall Miss You" by "Martin Gabel"	Baker Street	Verve	2007	Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	1:15:43 (Pop-up)
Matt Boehler & Brian Wallin	Freedom of the Press	The Cradle Will Rock (Live)	Bridge Records	2018	Music & Lyrics: Marc Blitzstein	1:18:28 (Pop-up)
Howard McGillin	Jasper's Confession	The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Verve	2007	Music & Lyrics: Rupert Holmes	1:22:04 (Pop-up)
Henry Calvin & Kismet Ensemble	Was I Wazir?	Kismet: A Musical Arabian Night (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	2007	Music: Alexander Borodin (adapted by Robert Wright & George Forrest) Lyrics: Robert Wright & George Forrest	1:25:08 (Pop-up)
Danny Sewell	My Name "My Name" by "Danny Sewell"	Oliver! (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	2003	Music & Lyrics: Lionel Bart	1:27:12 (Pop-up)
Kurt Kasznar & Marion Marlowe	How Can Love Survive?	The Sound of Music (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Craft Recordings	2019	Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II	1:29:53 (Pop-up)

Tom Waits	just the right bullets "just the right bullets" by "Tom Waits"	The Black Rider	Island Records	1993	Music & Lyrics: Tom Waits	1:37:26 (Pop-up)
The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company	When the Night Wind Howls	Gilbert and Sullivan: More Vintage Favourites	Regis Records	2010	Music: Arthur Sullivan Lyrics: W.S. Gilbert	1:40:16 (Pop-up)
Bryn Terfel	Stars "Stars" by "Bryn Terfel"	Bad Boys	Deutsche Grammophon	2010	Music: Claude-Michel Schonberg Lyrics: Alain Boublil & Jean-Marc Natel (translated into English by Herbert Kretzmer)	1:42:24 (Pop-up)
John Leslie Wolfe, Herndon Lackey & John Hickok	Where Will You Stand When the Flood Comes?	Parade (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	2007	Music & Lyrics: Jason Robert Brown	1:44:10 (Pop-up)
John Cullum	Molasses to Rum "Molasses to Rum" by "John Cullum"	Columbia Pictures Presents Jack L. Warner's 1776 Original Soundtrack Recording	Columbia Records	2007	Music & Lyrics: Sherman Edwards	1:47:18 (Pop-up)
Edmund Lyndeck	Johanna "Johanna" by "Edmund Lyndeck"	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	2016	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	1:51:34 (Pop-up)
Sherrill Milnes	Te Deum "Te Deum" by "Sherrill Milnes"	Puccini: Tosca	Decca Music Group Limited	1978	Music: Giacomo Puccini Lyrics: Luigi Illica & Giuseppe Giacosa	1:55:17 (Pop-up)

Lena Horne & Harry Belafonte	There's a Boat That's Leavin' Soon for New York	Porgy and Bess	RCA Victor	1959	Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Ira Gershwin	2:01:58 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎭 ♥ 7:00pm Listener Gregory: Why should we limit ourselves to a touch? Also, good evening.
	♥ 7:01pm Bronwyn Bishop: Good evening Gregory :)))
	♥ 7:02pm Bronwyn Bishop: Two more generous pledgers I want to thank who helped us reach our goal (sorry I forgot to thank you in the actual show): Benjamin F. and Nacho Bravo!
	🎭 ♥ 7:02pm doctorjazz: Hey Bronwyn, LG, Jazzers!
	♥ 7:02pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hey doctorjazz!! :D
	🎭 ♥ 7:03pm Listener Gregory: @doctorj!
	🎭 ♥ 7:04pm Webhamster Henry: Hi Bronwyn! villain songs tonight?
	♥ 7:05pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hi Henry!!! YES!!! :D
	🎭 ♥ 7:05pm Listener Gregory: Honestly, I didn't wait for your villain's show. I started on villainy on my own.
	🎭 ♥ 7:05pm Webhamster Henry: This is going to be fun!
	♥ 7:07pm Bronwyn Bishop: this was released as a single, guys. a single!
	🎭 ♥ 7:11pm Listener Gregory: Is that Leslie Nielson on the cover of the soundtrack??
	🎭 ♥ 7:11pm Webhamster Henry: Bruce Kimmel was also responsible for THE FIRST NUDIE MUSICAL.
	🎭 ♥ 7:14pm Listener Gregory: He's not a bad man, just a bad wizard!
	♥ 7:15pm Bronwyn Bishop: this was written by john entwistle instead of pete townshend like all 300 other songs in tommy. i wonder why??
	7:17pm Doug Schulkind: Bad guys? Good guise!
	🎭 ♥ 7:17pm diciassette: Ahoy! It's no more Mr Nice Guy, here at Acid Jazz Hands, innit
	7:24pm ;;;: I remember reading that Pete Townshend asked John Entwistle to write the two songs where Tommy was traumatized by relatives because doing so was too much for him and because creepy, dark songs were sort of John's specialty
	♥ 7:24pm Bronwyn Bishop: @Henry: Oh boy I'll have to check that out, whatever it is
	🎭 ♥ 7:24pm Listener Gregory: There are deep theological questions here, seriously. If Jesus was not condemned and crucified, then original sin would not have been atoned for, and humanity would not have been saved from eternal torment. So, are the people who did that really villains? Without them, there is no Christianity. Discuss.
	7:29pm Doug Schulkind: Thurl?
	🎭 ♥ 7:29pm Webhamster Henry: So Thurl!
	7:30pm Doug Schulkind: Thurltastic!
	🎭 ♥ 7:31pm Webhamster Henry: Thurltha!
	🎭 ♥ 7:34pm Listener Gregory: Thurly wundrful.
	♥ 7:43pm Bronwyn Bishop: @;;;: Thanks for the info, friendly collection of semicolons!
	♥ 7:43pm Bronwyn Bishop: Thurl and Eartha, two people who are probably the only people ever with their respective names
	🎭 ♥ 7:44pm Webhamster Henry: This is a pretty elaborate mockup!
	♥ 7:45pm Bronwyn Bishop: I like this demo because it sounds like Alan Menken is cosplaying as the Silver Apples with his crazy synths here (and because Howard Ashman goes BALLS OUT as Ursula)
	🎭 ♥ 7:51pm doctorjazz: The demo was really cool!
	♥ 7:53pm Bronwyn Bishop: they were too cool, they really were
	🎭 ♥ 7:54pm Listener Gregory: To my mind, the most evil character in the theater is Iago. Is there no musical version of "Othello"? I guess it wouldn't be the feel-good musical of the summer...
	♥ 7:55pm Bronwyn Bishop: both these 3 and the villain in the wiz like to sleep till noon. apparently villains love sleeping
	🎭 ♥ 7:56pm Listener Gregory: Richard III also very bad, and even less likely to appear in a musical, I would guess.
	🎭 ♥ 7:56pm diciassette: Cheers to the Annie contingent!
	♥ 7:58pm Bronwyn Bishop: @Gregory: There was an Othello musical called Catch My Soul which premiered in 1968 and allegedly had Jerry Lee Lewis playing Iago at some point. I don't think there's ever been a Richard III musical
	🎭 ♥ 7:58pm diciassette: ..from the Annie Contingent!
	🎭 ♥ 8:00pm Webhamster Henry: Not a musical, but the Ian McKellen Richard III is really good: www.imdb.com...
	🎭 ♥ 8:00pm Webhamster Henry: Shakespeare musicals could be another theme show.
	♥ 8:02pm Bronwyn Bishop: Great idea Henry!!!
	🎭 ♥ 8:02pm Listener Gregory: Benedict Cumberbatch also a great Richard III. But can he sing??? @BB, incredible that there’s a musical Othello. It is not a pleasant story, really.
	🎭 ♥ 8:05pm Webhamster Henry: I sing Bon Voyage a lot!
	♥ 8:10pm Bronwyn Bishop: I would love to witness this Henry
	🎭 ♥ 8:12pm Webhamster Henry: Well I had Shot #1 today .. maybe I can make it into NYC sometime this year!
	♥ 8:13pm Bronwyn Bishop: Congrats Henry!!! Someday we should have an NYC AJH meetup...like to watch the Tonys!!!
	🎭 ♥ 8:14pm Webhamster Henry: Or just to watch NPH sing "Bigger" about 10 times.
	🎭 ♥ 8:18pm Listener Gregory: Maybe what villains really deserve is our understanding.
	🎭 ♥ 8:28pm Listener Gregory: I haven't heard this song (My Name) for decades, yet I know most of the words. Real villainy.
	♥ 8:29pm Bronwyn Bishop: you remember...his name! He'd be thrilled
	🎭 ♥ 8:30pm Listener Gregory: I think that role is typically given to someone who can't actually sing. Every version I've heard is like that. It makes the song more threatening.
	♥ 8:31pm Bronwyn Bishop: That's a good point, I wouldn't feel very threatened if Mario Lanza sang it
	🎭 ♥ 8:45pm WR: hi all, just got off work call, trying to understand the plot line here.
	🎭 ♥ 8:46pm WR: was there more than one musical called Parade? or maybe I'm thinking Easter Parade. so confused here.
	🎭 ♥ 8:47pm diciassette: I've been sharpening knives to the music and a little behind myself
	🎭 ♥ 8:47pm Listener Gregory: More 1776!
	🎭 ♥ 8:48pm WR: diciassette: knives? for the mob?
	♥ 8:49pm Bronwyn Bishop: this is probably the most disturbing song in the history of musical theatre
	♥ 8:50pm Bronwyn Bishop: @WR: Jerry Herman also had an Off-Broadway revue in 1960 called Parade
	🎭 ♥ 8:50pm Listener Gregory: Yes, and part of its point is that they (we) were all the villains, some just more obvious than others.
	♥ 8:51pm Bronwyn Bishop: Yep this is a villain song because Rutledge is a scary mean baritone (and because he actually approves of slavery) but they were all complicit!
	🎭 ♥ 8:53pm WR: is the movie version of 1776 recommended? I see that John Cullum did the movie as well.
	🎭 ♥ 8:55pm Webhamster Henry: Johanna was cut from the original production, put on the cast album, and now often is in revivals.
	♥ 8:55pm Bronwyn Bishop: Yes it's brilliant! Cullum was actually not the original performer on Broadway, that was Clifford David (a tenor who was less intense and more slimy, his version is great too.) Cullum was Rutledge #3
	♥ 8:56pm Bronwyn Bishop: @Henry: We included it in our college version because of course we did
	🎭 ♥ 8:56pm doctorjazz: It was in my daughter's high school Sweeny Todd production, was truly weird. Thanks, Bronwyn, great show!
	🎭 ♥ 8:57pm Webhamster Henry: Judge Turpin was peeping at the diaphanously clad Johanna through the keyhole, says Sondheim on page 349 of Finishing The Hat
	♥ 8:57pm Bronwyn Bishop: That is exceedingly weird doctorjazz. In my HS we had a "senior showcase" where some girls did Big Spender...oy. (I did Poor Wandering One from The Pirates of Penzance)
	🎭 ♥ 8:58pm WR: Surprisingly it is the Jerry Herman Parade that i have a tiny bit of familiarity with due to the original cast record which I've seen around.
	🎭 ♥ 9:00pm diciassette: thanks bronwyn!
	🎭 ♥ 9:00pm Listener Gregory: I guess we're not going to hear Randy Newman as a really lovable Devil today. Excellent show, Bronwyn! Great variety of selections.
	🎭 ♥ 9:02pm Webhamster Henry: Overtime for Villainy!
	♥ 9:02pm Bronwyn Bishop: they demanded it!
	♥ 9:02pm Bronwyn Bishop: thank u all for listening darlings!!!
	🎭 ♥ 9:02pm doctorjazz: They would cheat!
	🎭 ♥ 9:03pm Listener Gregory: FYI. I strongly recommend the Ray Charles/Cleo Laine Porgy & Bess. Very contrasting styles, and Charles naturally knocks it out of the park.
	♥ 9:03pm Bronwyn Bishop: Imagine if all of these villains teamed up, we wouldn't stand a chance
	🎭 ♥ 9:03pm WR: oh, damn, that other Parade is about the Leo Frank lynching. the Holacast Musuem had amazing sad and scary exhibition about the Leo Frank lynching a few years ago. Chilling, it included history of other lynchings as well for context. Is this a happy song to finish with?
	🎭 ♥ 9:04pm doctorjazz: LG, I serving that Porgy and Bess!
	🎭 ♥ 9:05pm WR: thank you Bronwyn, laters all.
	🎭 ♥ 9:05pm Listener Gregory: @doctorj, you definitely DEserve it. I only have it on the original LP; not sure if it is available in any other form.
	🎭 ♥ 9:06pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks, you bad people, for singin' your evil little hearts out.

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from March 26, 2021

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