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Musical theater from off the beaten path. Obscure and unusual show tunes from within the canon and without, flops, failures, and the newest works from up-and-coming artists—plus tried-and-true hits. Also, occasional appearances from songs that are not show tunes (but only if they go really well with show tunes).

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Favoriting July 16, 2021: Road to Paradise

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John Herrera, Patti Cohenour & Jana Schneider  No Good Can Come from Bad   Favoriting The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Verve (Adult Contemporary)  1985  Music & Lyrics: Rupert Holmes 
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Big Deal Company  Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar   Favoriting 1986 Tony Awards Performance  No Label  1986  Music & Lyrics: Don Raye, Hughie Prince & Eleanor Sheehy 
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Les Misérables Original London Cast  Look Down   Favoriting Les Miserables (Original London Cast Recording)  Exallshow Ltd  1985  Music: Claude-Michel Schonberg Lyrics: Alain Boublil & Jean-Marc Natel (translated into English by Herbert Kretzmer) 
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Smile Ensemble  The Very Best Week of Our Lives   Favoriting Smile (Original Broadway Cast Members)  No Label  1986  Music: Marvin Hamlisch Lyrics: Howard Ashman 
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Phantom of the Opera Original London Cast  Masquerade/Why So Silent   Favoriting The Phantom of the Opera  Polydor  1989  Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Charles Hart & Richard Stilgoe 
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Ambrosian Singers  Press Conference   Favoriting Chess (The Original Recording)  3 Knights Ltd  1984  Music: Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus Lyrics: Tim Rice & Bjorn Ulvaeus 
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Peter Allen  Prelude/When I Get My Name in Lights   Favoriting Legs Diamond (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  1988  Music & Lyrics: Peter Allen 
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Brent Barrett  Love Can't Happen   Favoriting Grand Hotel: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  1989  Music & Lyrics: Maury Yeston 
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Danielle Findley  My Daddy   Favoriting Annie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge (Soundboard Audio)  No Label  1990  Music: Charles Strouse Lyrics: Martin Charnin 
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Peter Polycarpou & Lea Salonga  The Fall of Saigon   Favoriting Miss Saigon  The Verve Music Group  1989  Music: Claude-Michel Schonberg Lyrics: Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr. 
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Kirby Ward, Jeremy Harrison & Vanessa Leigh-Hicks  Slap That Bass   Favoriting Crazy for You (Original London Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  1993  Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Ira Gershwin 
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Barry Bostwick & Joanna Gleason  Is There Anything Better Than Dancing   Favoriting Musicality of Strouse  Jay Records  1991  Music: Charles Strouse Lyrics: Richard Maltby Jr. 
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Chita Rivera, Brent Carver & Keith McDaniel  Gimme Love   Favoriting Kiss of the Spider Woman (Original Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  1993  Music: John Kander Lyrics: Fred Ebb 
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Martin Short, Bernadette Peters & Tammy Minoff  Richard Interred   Favoriting The Goodbye Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  1993  Music: Marvin Hamlisch Lyrics: David Zippel 
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Susan Egan, Terrence Mann & Gary Beach  Something There   Favoriting Beauty and the Beast: The Broadway Musical  Buena Vista  1994  Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Howard Ashman 
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Patrick Kelly  Change in Me   Favoriting Live at Stage 72  No Label  2014  Music & Lyrics: Carol Hall 
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Michael Park & DeLee Lively  Teach Me How to Shimmy   Favoriting Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller  Atlantic Theatre  1995  Music & Lyrics: Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller 
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Alan Campbell  Sunset Boulevard   Favoriting Sunset Boulevard (Original Broadway Cast)  Polydor Records  1994  Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Don Black & Christopher Hampton 
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Daphne Rubin-Vega  Out Tonight   Favoriting Rent (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  SKG Music  1996  Music & Lyrics: Jonathan Larson 
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Katy Osborne, Tash Holway & Ross McLaren  The Real Thing   Favoriting Big: The Musical (Original UK Cast Recording)  Silva Screen Records  2016  Music: David Shire Lyrics: Richard Maltby Jr. 
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Marcia Lewis, James Naughton & Ann Reinking  We Both Reached for the Gun   Favoriting Chicago the Musical (New Broadway Cast Recording)  BMG Music  1996  Music: John Kander Lyrics: Fred Ebb 
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Whistle Down the Wind Original Stage Cast  No Matter What   Favoriting Whistle Down the Wind (Original Cast Recording)  The Really Useful Group Ltd.  1998  Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Jim Steinman 
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Samuel E. Wright & The Lion King Ensemble  They Live in You   Favoriting The Lion King (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Walt Disney Records  1997  Music & Lyrics: Mark Mancina, Jay Rifkin & Lebo M 
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The Capeman Ensemble  Puerto Rican Day Parade   Favoriting The Capeman (Original Broadway Cast)  Universal Music Classical  1998  Music: Paul Simon Lyrics: Paul Simon & Derek Walcott 
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Shiloh  Judgment Day   Favoriting The Civil War: The Complete Work  Atlantic  1999  Music: Frank Wildhorn Lyrics: Jack Murphy 
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Listener comments!

Avatar 🎭 7:00pm
Listener Gregory:

Just unpacked the car from a day trip and realized I am just in time for you-know-what.
The stream before the show is making me wonder whether it would be possible to do a total yodeling Acid Jazz Hands.
Avatar 🎭 7:01pm
Listener Gregory:

Whoops, Edwin Drood is half the volume of the prior stream... if that.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
doctorjazz:

Hi all!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
WR:

Hi AJH aficionados, I'm am a tried and true failure at yodeling.

Yes, LG, and seems half the volume of another stream, yes I am double streaming.
Avatar 🎭 7:06pm
Listener Gregory:

For the record, I would prefer to be beaten 1 to the bar. Or less, if possible.
Howdy, @doctorj!
Avatar 🎭 7:07pm
Listener Gregory:

And @AR.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:08pm
doctorjazz:

Hi, LG and WR!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:09pm
diciassette:

Ahoy BB, DJ, LG, and WR (in alphabetical order!)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:11pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Hi everyone :D
Avatar 🎭 7:13pm
Listener Gregory:

AR = WR, of course.
Avatar 🎭 7:14pm
Listener Gregory:

You’ll find that things are worthwhile… if you’ll just smile.
Avatar 🎭 7:15pm
Listener Gregory:

Someone stopped smiling for a second!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:19pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

living in terror of another DJ coming down the hall and catching me playing this
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:21pm
diciassette:

You can always bar the door and laugh maniacally!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:22pm
doctorjazz:

I think Billy Jam KNOWS...
Avatar 🎭 7:22pm
Listener Gregory:

Interestingly, the Victor Hugo novel behind this is superb, but the Dickens novel behind Edwin Drood is clearly his weakest. A musical sending it up is called for.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:33pm
diciassette:

"The failure of the musical was so total that it compelled the Nederlander Organization to finally sell the beloved but flop-prone Mark Hellinger Theatre to the Times Square Church, which still owns it.[2]"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:34pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Every time I pass the Times Square Church and I'm with someone I tell them the tale of the Mark Hellinger
Avatar 🎭 7:44pm
Listener Gregory:

The film Grand Hotel is a true classic. Apparently, this is where Greta Garbo intones, "I want to be alone!" (for those over 40 who remember such things).
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
diciassette:

Filichia makes a pretty good joke in the table of contents when he lists the biggest hit of 1988-89 as "My Marriage to Ernest Borgnine," which turns out to be a blank page in Ethel Merman's biography!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:51pm
diciassette:

*auto
Avatar 🎭 7:51pm
Listener Gregory:

I hope this has a happy ending (Miss Saigon).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:54pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

@diciassette: I was so confused by that at first but then I LOL'd
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

@Gregory: Of course, it ends with everyone holding hands under a rainbow ;)
Avatar 🎭 7:56pm
Listener Gregory:

This version of the song does not top the Fred Astaire version, IMHO. Fortunately, the 1993 Broadway audiences probably didn't know/remember that. His performance is much livelier.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
WR:

I revere Chita Rivera, love the Kiss of the Spider Woman movie, but this Gimme Love is not connecting for me.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

I'll take "movies that were absolutely not screaming for a musical adaptation" for $500 alex
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
diciassette:

Well, it's time for my occasional Bernadette Lazzara fainting spell
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
diciassette:

Martin Short sounds pretty tall in this one
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
melinda:

@Bronwyn haha
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

I'm surprised by how competent his singing is
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
diciassette:

He's a professional chameleon!
Avatar 🎭 8:08pm
Listener Gregory:

Short used to do musical send-ups on the Letterman show pretty regularly (usually pretty funny). I think if you subtracted the send-up, he might have been able to do the musical on its own.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
diciassette:

I saw a Johnny Carson clip where he sat next to Bette Davis and started turning into her
Avatar 🎭 8:10pm
TonyR:

I give up. Been trying to say that last week, the music was low and mic hot (but apparently normal, compared to next show on Drummer stream). Looks like this week started out low, also, but I wasn't here at 7 tonight.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
diciassette:

As long as the mic/line are reasonably together I'm in! I have volume knob on the hifi
Avatar 🎭 8:12pm
Listener Gregory:

@BB, I don't see the Nick & Nora play in the playlist. I loved the old movies.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
melinda:

I graduated from college in 1994. The year of the white bronco slow chase.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
diciassette:

In 1994 I quit smoking for lent
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
WR:

@LG, I think it is the song from Musicality of Strouse
Avatar 🎭 8:14pm
TonyR:

Yeah it was all good seated at the computer, not so good cast to the big speakers... In the bedroom.
Avatar 🎭 8:15pm
Listener Gregory:

@WR, yikes! Oh, the song was originally in a failed Nick 'n' Nora musical and then got put into the Strouse collection? That would make sense.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

to elaborate on what irritates me about the added dialogue here- ashman's lyrics PERFECTLY illustrate the fact that they're falling in love, we don't need a bunch of dialogue to help it along
Avatar 🎭 8:16pm
Listener Gregory:

Note to soundtrack producers: Kindly avoid "a whole schmegeggy!"
Avatar 🎭 8:24pm
Listener Gregory:

In retrospect, "Teach me how to shimmy" makes me long for a whole schmegeggy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

I think he said "wanted my pool, my dose of fame" but it really sounds like he says "wanted my pool, my dorsal fin"
Avatar 🎭 8:26pm
TonyR:

There be dragons!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
diciassette:

Million dollar sediment!
Avatar 🎭 8:29pm
Listener Gregory:

Dish the dirt!
Avatar 🎭 8:37pm
Listener Gregory:

The song from Big is confusing me: standard pop song structure orchestrated by Mozart? With dialogue?
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
diciassette:

We had it coming!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

@Gregory: Yeah I have no idea what the usually brilliant David Shire was going for there
Avatar 🎭 8:45pm
Listener Gregory:

How did Jim Steinman get demoted from hit songwriter to only the lyricist?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Lord Lloyd Webber collaborates on music with no man!
Avatar 🎭 8:46pm
Listener Gregory:

Did you know that Lloyd Webber used to be Lloyd-Webber, but the House of Lords does not permit hyphenated names, do he had to change it? This is true; or so I read in the British press once.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:47pm
diciassette:

I believe everything I read in the Daily Mail
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
diciassette:

Paul Simon should be on-deck.. I can't wait to see what happens next.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Closing out with the 1998-1999 flop because I don't have time to play both it and its corresponding hit, and I think the hit would make a nice opening for next week's show
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
diciassette:

Brava! Thank you, Bronwyn B
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

thank YOU diciassette (and everyone)
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
WR:

I just bought The Capeman. It became an earworm from when you played something from it before.

Thank you Bronwyn! Laters drummer streamers!
Avatar 🎭 9:02pm
Listener Gregory:

Thanks, Bronwyn! I didn't see the ending coming. It crept up on me.
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