WFMU: Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from December 3, 2021

Listener comments!
	7:01pm headcleaner: everybody rise
	🎭 7:02pm Listener Gregory: Good Sondheim, all. Hoping my internet holds up long enough for me to hear the show live.
	7:02pm Webhamster Henry: Please don't fart!
	7:02pm Doug Schulkind: I need this so bad.
	7:02pm Webhamster Henry: I saw this show at the Yale swimming pool.
	7:03pm Julie: (passes out hankies)
	🎭 7:04pm WR: This is not a lamentation This is a celebration Celebration of a life well spent
	7:06pm Julie: POST SONDHEIM
	7:06pm Webhamster Henry: Too soon because he was still working (!?!)
	7:07pm Webhamster Henry: During years when there wasn't a Sondheim show around, there were plenty of Sondheim tribute shows.
	🎭 7:08pm TonyR: Thanks for putting it together this week, BB.
	7:09pm Alf from Upstate: Volume is a little low on the music. Thanks for doing this, Bronwyn.
	7:10pm Webhamster Henry: Look I Made A Hat (LIMAH) p. 419ff
	7:12pm Webhamster Henry: "I've written a lot of better New York songs since then, but you should see the movie" (The Clock)
	7:12pm Julie: ah i thought it was just me, the quietude
	7:13pm Doug Schulkind: I agree with others. I think the music level should be boosted some, Bronwyn!
	🎭 7:13pm Listener Gregory: BB, who was playing piano on New York Song?
	7:15pm Julie: there's birds in this song!!
	7:19pm Julie: i gotta share this..Amber wearing this shirt with her Dad (from the original movie) twitter.com...
	7:19pm Bronwyn Bishop: Sorry everyone but the studio has some volume issues and this is the loudest I can get it to go
	7:20pm Webhamster Henry: Sondheim showing inappropriately sophisticated dialog for these miscreants.
	7:21pm Julie: ahh the joys of Studio C
	🎭 7:21pm Listener Gregory: Even as a child I recognized the brilliance of the Officer Krupke lyrics.
	7:22pm Doug Schulkind: I read an interview with Sondheim today in which he trashed most of his songs in West Side Story. He felt that Leonard Bernstein pushed him too hard to make the songs drip with poetry. Sondheim felt the words didn't befit the characters. That tune and "Something's Coming" were the two tunes he felt were appropriate.
	7:24pm Webhamster Henry: Finishing The Hat, p 51 has the story of him not putting the first "Fuck You!" in a Broadway lyric.
	7:25pm Doug Schulkind: In the same interview, Sondheim revealed that Ethel Merman tried to get him fired from the show. She felt he wasn't enough of an established star, and she didn't want to take the risk. Sondheim agreed to relinquish the composing role (to Jule Styne), but stayed on as lyricist.
	7:25pm Doug Schulkind: OK, I'll shut up now.
	7:26pm Webhamster Henry: I'll be putting in footnotes from FTH/ LIMAH because if don't have those books yet, you will.
	🎭 7:28pm diciassette: Ahoy! I don't mind reading about Sondheim in the comments, myself. I'm lucky enough to have FTH!
	7:33pm Webhamster Henry: I'm glad you're going with these kind of deep cuts - the well known stuff will get lots of exposure.
	7:36pm Julie: i heard a little sweeney todd tune in that one, we'll serve ANYONE
	🎭 7:36pm Listener Gregory: I can whistle, but not everyone can. I lost something off my range when I turned 40... I think a lip change.
	🎭 7:37pm Listener Gregory: When your lips are chapped, it is also a problem. I assume this is of general interest!
	7:38pm Bronwyn Bishop: Loving everyone's informative comments!!! :D
	7:39pm Webhamster Henry: "Suck on an ice cube first!" -- Mrs. Elva Miller, whistling fool
	7:39pm Bronwyn Bishop: I love Mrs. Miller
	7:41pm Webhamster Henry: FTH p 143 "Do I Hear A Waltz? ... is based on a small , charming play that would have gained nothing from being musicalized, even by Puccini."
	7:42pm Julie: there's a lovely version of Evening Primrose on Prime, with Tony Perkins (!) and Charmian Carr.
	7:42pm Bronwyn Bishop: His writing in FTH is so funny (I need to order LIMAH)
	7:42pm Webhamster Henry: I have Evening Primrose on DVD- it was shot I think at Alexander's Dept store.
	7:42pm Bronwyn Bishop: @Julie: Wow thanks for the info, I will watch!!
	7:43pm Julie: I haven't seen the movie he and Perkins wrote together though.
	7:45pm Webhamster Henry: The Last Of Sheila is fun! I think you can see it on Kanopy.
	7:46pm Webhamster Henry: You can see the Making of the Company Soundtrack Documentary on Criterion.
	🎭 7:46pm WR: @7:13 @Listener Gregory: www.discogs.com... according to the discogs listing, Sondheim, piano & voice, They quote the liner notes of the CD.
	7:48pm Doug Schulkind: Charmian Carr was an early crush.
	7:48pm Webhamster Henry: I'm much more familiar with the 1985 concert version of Follies.
	🎭 7:48pm Listener Gregory: @WR, thanks! The piano playing was quite impressive for someone who was not a performer. And very good for someone who was.
	7:53pm Listener Gregory: Some of these songs are really good!
	7:53pm Webhamster Henry: 1985 was a kind of empty time on Broadway, so the 1985 concert was simultaneously nostalgia for the original material and the kind of Broadway that could produce Follies in 1970. Little did they know the Disnified future in store for them!
	7:57pm ?: Just tuning in. I'll be listening to the archived show too!
	7:57pm Marie: I am ?!
	7:57pm Webhamster Henry: FTH p 235 has that anecdote about Losing My Mind.
	8:01pm Webhamster Henry: It's specifically written for Glynis Johns' range.
	8:02pm Julie: hi Marie!
	8:03pm Webhamster Henry: ... who is still alive and the oldest living Oscar nominee in an acting category.
	8:03pm Doug Schulkind: @Webhamster Henry Not so much her range, but her inability to sustain notes. Sondheim says this is why the song is made up questions. Stated questions are short and declarative not requiring long, sustained syllables.
	8:03pm Listener Gregory: BB, Sarah Vaughan does a great version of Send in the Clowns on her album of that name, which I recommend checking out. She manages to span her entire (huge) range in the song.
	8:04pm Bronwyn Bishop: UH OH EVERYONE THE FROGS ARE HERE
	8:04pm Marie: Hi Julie!!! @))
	8:08pm Webhamster Henry: "This song may seem inordinately long, but it accompanied a ten minute long aquatic ballet..." = FTH p 295
	🎭 8:09pm diciassette: Thank goodness!
	8:13pm doctorjazz: Hello Bronwyn and listeners!
	8:14pm Webhamster Henry: Even though this is the revised version (with Sondheim additions), you can see you how the gruesomeness of the satire wouldn't fly in 1956.
	8:14pm Bronwyn Bishop: @Henry: I personally wish that song was even longer! I wish it was 20 minutes long!!!!
	8:15pm Little Danny: hello bronwyn, hello everybody
	8:15pm Webhamster Henry: Brek-kek-kek-kek is in the original Greek!
	8:15pm Bronwyn Bishop: @Gregory: I will check that out, sounds amazing!!!
	8:16pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hi doctorjazz and Danny!! :D
	8:17pm Listener Gregory: The 1991 recording of the “final revised version” of Candide, with a bunch of opera singers and conducted by Bernstein is really good. Two CD set for those who believe in physical objects (Deutsche Grammophon). I listen to it every year or so.
	8:19pm doctorjazz: Not sure if the levels were raised, but the volume on my stereo is turned higher than I ever remember having it.
	8:20pm Webhamster Henry: Stavisky was on the B side of cassette 2 of that Follies Concert. Also Youtube has the Candide with Kristin Chenoweth and Patty LuPone and a Donald Trump caricature: www.shoutfactory.com...
	🎭 8:20pm diciassette: Stavisky is on Kanopy (at least if you are connected to the SFPL) I don't mind bumping the gain on this end if the mic/line are about the same, and they seem to be today!
	8:20pm Bronwyn Bishop: @Gregory: That also sounds amazing and I will also check that out!!!
	8:21pm Marie: Beautiful!
	8:21pm Bronwyn Bishop: Studio C is a fickle mistress and I have it turned all the way up on the board and computer :(
	🎭 8:21pm diciassette: It's been like this since you (and we) moved in!
	8:21pm Bronwyn Bishop: @Henry: I watched that Candide and gasped in horror when not-Trump showed up (I think he even made a cameo in person at one performance?)
	8:22pm doctorjazz: It's fine with the dials up (just have to remember to turn it down before anything else plays through it).
	8:23pm Webhamster Henry: It's a pretty silly production! They use silliness to get around Candide's various problems.
	8:23pm Marie: It's like that one melodic pattern is also "saying" there is no other way
	8:23pm Webhamster Henry: Pacific Overtures is kind of like nothing before or since.
	8:25pm Webhamster Henry: Revivals of PO have to update the end a bit to bring it up to the present.
	8:29pm Doug Schulkind: Sing the whole thing! Sing the whole thing!
	🎭 8:29pm WR: Yay Mom B!
	8:29pm Webhamster Henry: "Turn off that screaming woman" -- college hall mates about Sweeney Todd.
	8:32pm MOM WHIG: Hi there, Doug S, listener Gregory, Julie, WR, TonyR, docjazz
	8:33pm Webhamster Henry: I saw the original production of Sweeney 3 times .. and even visited Angela Lansbury at her (emptied) dressing room the night of her last performance. I also saw Dorothy Louden version later that year.
	8:34pm MOM WHIG: Webhamster H - WOW - so lucky! grew up with a ton of these shows tunes. What a master of tunes he was.
	🎭 8:35pm WR: Hi Mom Whig WHH. Wow.
	8:35pm Doug Schulkind: Hello, MW!
	8:37pm Listener Gregory: I really would like to be known as the demon retiree of Garden Street. Working on it. First step: You kids stay off my lawn!
	8:37pm Marie: What a voice!
	8:38pm Webhamster Henry: I've sung "Epiphany" at Karaoke. 🪒🥧
	🎭 8:41pm WR: Third time hearing this song, Finishing the Hat, this week. Enjoying it more, getting more from it each time.
	8:42pm Marie: I'm cooking tapioca pudding and it kinda looks like frogs eggs sometimes... @) I want to see The Frogs play now
	8:42pm Listener Gregory: I have a definite memory of seeing Sunday with the original cast on TV (PBS, most likely). Can anyone confirm that this is not a false memory?
	8:43pm Doug Schulkind: Yesterday was George Seurat's 162nd birthday.
	8:44pm doctorjazz: Some pecan pie and Acid Jazz Hands, life is good...
	8:46pm Marie: 162, wow. Hey Doug.
	8:47pm Marie: A belated hello to everybody!
	🎭 8:48pm WR: @8:42 @Listener Gregory: from wikipedia en.wikipedia.org... Sunday in the Park with George was taped on October 21–25, 1985, at the Booth Theatre with most of the original Broadway cast. It was broadcast on American television on February 18, 1986, on Showtime and on June 16, 1986, on PBS's American Playhouse. (Bernadette Peters, who was performing in Song and Dance at the time of the taping, was given time off from that play to tape this production.[33]) Warner Home Video released the recording on VHS on April 1, 1992; Image Entertainment released the DVD and laserdisc on March 23, 1999. The DVD includes full-length commentary by Sondheim, Lapine, Patinkin, and Peters.
	8:49pm Doug Schulkind: Netflix has the documentary Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Hapened. "The cast and crew of the 1981 Broadway musical 'Merrily We Roll Along' recall joy and heartbreak during the production of a surefire hit that wasn't."
	8:49pm Webhamster Henry: "Unworthy" is in the news because Hinkley now is home with an unconditional release and wants to be a musician
	8:50pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Bronwyn and memorable crowd. Nice celebration show tonight. Tomorrow is the birthday of Max Baer Jr., b. 1937 (aka Jethro Bodine).
	8:51pm Listener Gregory: Thanks, @WR! Sounds like I can maybe relive the experience on DVD. I remember it being tremendous.
	8:52pm Pleasant Surprise: Annie Golden of The Shirts. Her brother Pat was the nicest guy ever. RIP Pat.
	8:53pm Pleasant Surprise: Thanks all. Esp Bronwyn and the color commentary from Doug & Henry
	8:53pm Julie: I think most folks of a certain age will know Annie best from orange is the new black. But she'll always be the girl from the movie Hair for me
	8:54pm headcleaner: Has anything changed since the days of ancient Rome?
	8:55pm Pleasant Surprise: And Cliff Calvin’s only girlfriend Julie. Thx
	8:55pm Little Danny: thank you so much Bronwyn, esp. loved hearing your personal appreciation(s) of Sondheim
	8:56pm Julie: oh geez it's over
	8:56pm Julie: thanks Bronwyn, it's a rough show to do but you're the one to do it best
	8:57pm Bronwyn Bishop: I wanted to do another talk set but didn't end up having time which is just as well because now I'm crying again
	🎭 8:58pm WR: Thank you Thank you Bronwyn. Smiling through tears.
	🎭 8:58pm diciassette: Thank you Bronwyn B!
	8:58pm Bronwyn Bishop: I love you Sondheim!!! LONG LIVE MUSICAL THEATRE!!!!!!
	8:59pm Doug Schulkind: You can go re-watch to footage of the Broadway stars singing this en masse last Sunday... and re-weep. I know I will.
	8:59pm Bronwyn Bishop: thank you all for joining me i love you all!!!!
	8:59pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Bronwyn, great tribute!
	8:59pm Webhamster Henry: That 1993 Celebration show is very uneven but check out Harolyn Blackwell's Green Finch and Linnet Bird: www.youtube.com... Here's a real closer, which didn't fit in this not-long-enough show: www.youtube.com...
	9:00pm Doug Schulkind: Bravo Bronwyn.
	9:00pm Listener Gregory: That was perfect, Bronwyn. Thanks so much!
	9:00pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks Bronwyn and SS fans!
	9:01pm Marie: Thanks, Bronwyn! Will you be doing a Volume 2, perchance?

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from December 3, 2021

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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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December 3, 2021: The Astonishing Genius of Stephen Sondheim

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Christopher Durang	Invocation and Instructions to the Audience	Putting It Together (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording)	RCA	1993	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	0:00:00 (Pop-up)

Stephen Sondheim	New York Song "New York Song" by "Stephen Sondheim"	Sondheim Sings, Vol. II (1946-60)	PS Classics	2005	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	0:10:42 (Pop-up)
Clarke Thorell & Andrea Burns	Montana Chem	Saturday Night - Original Cast Recording	Nonesuch	2000	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	0:12:54 (Pop-up)
Suzanne Henry & Craig Lucas	Pour le Sport	Marry Me a Little (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording)	BMG Entertainment	1981	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	0:15:07 (Pop-up)
Max Doberman & West Side Story Original Broadway Cast	Gee, Officer Krupke	West Side Story - Original Broadway Cast	Columbia	1957	Music: Leonard Bernstein Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	0:18:48 (Pop-up)
Jack Klugman & Ethel Merman	You'll Never Get Away From Me	Gypsy (Original Broadway Cast)	Sony BMG Music Entertainment	1959	Music: Jule Styne Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	0:21:10 (Pop-up)
Brian Davies	Love, I Hear "Love, I Hear" by "Brian Davies"	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Original Broadway Cast)	David Shire	1962	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	0:23:54 (Pop-up)

Stephen Sondheim	The Lame, the Halt and the Blind - Demo	Anyone Can Whistle (Original Broadway Cast)	Masterworks Broadway	1964	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	0:33:24 (Pop-up)
Julienne Marie, Carol Bruce & Elizabeth Allen	Moon in My Window	Do I Hear a Waltz? (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	1965	Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	0:34:59 (Pop-up)
Theresa McCarthy & Neil Patrick Harris	Take Me to the World	The Frogs - Evening Primrose (2001 Studio Cast Recording)	Rhino Entertainment	2005	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	0:39:47 (Pop-up)
Pamela Myers	Another Hundred People	Company (Original Broadway Cast)	Sony BMG Music Entertainment	1970	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	0:43:23 (Pop-up)
John McMartin & Dorothy Collins	Too Many Mornings	Follies (Original Broadway Cast)	Kritzerland	1971	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	0:46:04 (Pop-up)
Julia McKenzie	Losing My Mind "Losing My Mind" by "Julia McKenzie"	Side by Side by Sondheim (Original London Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	1976	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	0:52:14 (Pop-up)

Glynis Johns	Send in the Clowns "Send in the Clowns" by "Glynis Johns"	A Little Night Music - Original Broadway Cast Recording	Sony BMG Music Entertainment	1973	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	1:02:47 (Pop-up)
Nathan Lane & Roger Bart	The Frogs	The Frogs: Original Broadway Cast Recording	PS Classics	2005	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	1:05:37 (Pop-up)
Arte Johnson, Mal Z. Lawrence & David Girolmo	Auto-da-fe	Candide (New Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	1997	Music: Leonard Bernstein Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim & John Latouche	1:10:52 (Pop-up)
Stephen Sondheim	Theme from Stavisky	Stavisky Original Soundtrack	RCA Red Seal	1975	Music: Stephen Sondheim	1:15:52 (Pop-up)
Alvin Ing & Ricardo Tobia	There is No Other Way	Pacific Overtures (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	1976	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	1:18:03 (Pop-up)

Angela Lansbury	The Worst Pies in London	Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Original Cast Album)	RCA Red Seal	1979	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	1:31:57 (Pop-up)
Jason Alexander, Jim Walton & Ann Morrison	It's a Hit!	Merrily We Roll Along (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	RVG	2007	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	1:35:03 (Pop-up)
Liz Callaway	Goodbye for Now "Goodbye for Now" by "Liz Callaway"	The Story Goes On: On & Off Broadway	Fynsworth Alley	2001	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	1:37:33 (Pop-up)
Mandy Patinkin	Finishing the Hat "Finishing the Hat" by "Mandy Patinkin"	Sunday in the Park with George (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	1984	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	1:39:55 (Pop-up)
Joanna Gleason & Chip Zien	It Takes Two	Into the Woods (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	1988	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	1:43:10 (Pop-up)

Greg Germann, Annie Golden	Unworthy of Your Love	Assassins - Original Cast Recording	BMG Music	1991	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	1:49:21 (Pop-up)
Original Broadway Cast of Passion	Loving You	Passion Original Broadway Cast	Angel	1994	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	1:51:48 (Pop-up)
Alexander Gemignani & Claybourne Elder	The Best Thing That Has Ever Happened	Road Show Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording	Nonesuch Records	2000	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	1:53:58 (Pop-up)
Bernadette Peters & Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall Ensemble	Sunday	A Celebration at Carnegie Hall	BMG Classics	1993	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	1:57:10 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:01pm headcleaner: everybody rise
	🎭 7:02pm Listener Gregory: Good Sondheim, all. Hoping my internet holds up long enough for me to hear the show live.
	7:02pm Webhamster Henry: Please don't fart!
	7:02pm Doug Schulkind: I need this so bad.
	7:02pm Webhamster Henry: I saw this show at the Yale swimming pool.
	7:03pm Julie: (passes out hankies)
	🎭 7:04pm WR: This is not a lamentation This is a celebration Celebration of a life well spent
	7:06pm Julie: POST SONDHEIM
	7:06pm Webhamster Henry: Too soon because he was still working (!?!)
	7:07pm Webhamster Henry: During years when there wasn't a Sondheim show around, there were plenty of Sondheim tribute shows.
	🎭 7:08pm TonyR: Thanks for putting it together this week, BB.
	7:09pm Alf from Upstate: Volume is a little low on the music. Thanks for doing this, Bronwyn.
	7:10pm Webhamster Henry: Look I Made A Hat (LIMAH) p. 419ff
	7:12pm Webhamster Henry: "I've written a lot of better New York songs since then, but you should see the movie" (The Clock)
	7:12pm Julie: ah i thought it was just me, the quietude
	7:13pm Doug Schulkind: I agree with others. I think the music level should be boosted some, Bronwyn!
	🎭 7:13pm Listener Gregory: BB, who was playing piano on New York Song?
	7:15pm Julie: there's birds in this song!!
	7:19pm Julie: i gotta share this..Amber wearing this shirt with her Dad (from the original movie) twitter.com...
	7:19pm Bronwyn Bishop: Sorry everyone but the studio has some volume issues and this is the loudest I can get it to go
	7:20pm Webhamster Henry: Sondheim showing inappropriately sophisticated dialog for these miscreants.
	7:21pm Julie: ahh the joys of Studio C
	🎭 7:21pm Listener Gregory: Even as a child I recognized the brilliance of the Officer Krupke lyrics.
	7:22pm Doug Schulkind: I read an interview with Sondheim today in which he trashed most of his songs in West Side Story. He felt that Leonard Bernstein pushed him too hard to make the songs drip with poetry. Sondheim felt the words didn't befit the characters. That tune and "Something's Coming" were the two tunes he felt were appropriate.
	7:24pm Webhamster Henry: Finishing The Hat, p 51 has the story of him not putting the first "Fuck You!" in a Broadway lyric.
	7:25pm Doug Schulkind: In the same interview, Sondheim revealed that Ethel Merman tried to get him fired from the show. She felt he wasn't enough of an established star, and she didn't want to take the risk. Sondheim agreed to relinquish the composing role (to Jule Styne), but stayed on as lyricist.
	7:25pm Doug Schulkind: OK, I'll shut up now.
	7:26pm Webhamster Henry: I'll be putting in footnotes from FTH/ LIMAH because if don't have those books yet, you will.
	🎭 7:28pm diciassette: Ahoy! I don't mind reading about Sondheim in the comments, myself. I'm lucky enough to have FTH!
	7:33pm Webhamster Henry: I'm glad you're going with these kind of deep cuts - the well known stuff will get lots of exposure.
	7:36pm Julie: i heard a little sweeney todd tune in that one, we'll serve ANYONE
	🎭 7:36pm Listener Gregory: I can whistle, but not everyone can. I lost something off my range when I turned 40... I think a lip change.
	🎭 7:37pm Listener Gregory: When your lips are chapped, it is also a problem. I assume this is of general interest!
	7:38pm Bronwyn Bishop: Loving everyone's informative comments!!! :D
	7:39pm Webhamster Henry: "Suck on an ice cube first!" -- Mrs. Elva Miller, whistling fool
	7:39pm Bronwyn Bishop: I love Mrs. Miller
	7:41pm Webhamster Henry: FTH p 143 "Do I Hear A Waltz? ... is based on a small , charming play that would have gained nothing from being musicalized, even by Puccini."
	7:42pm Julie: there's a lovely version of Evening Primrose on Prime, with Tony Perkins (!) and Charmian Carr.
	7:42pm Bronwyn Bishop: His writing in FTH is so funny (I need to order LIMAH)
	7:42pm Webhamster Henry: I have Evening Primrose on DVD- it was shot I think at Alexander's Dept store.
	7:42pm Bronwyn Bishop: @Julie: Wow thanks for the info, I will watch!!
	7:43pm Julie: I haven't seen the movie he and Perkins wrote together though.
	7:45pm Webhamster Henry: The Last Of Sheila is fun! I think you can see it on Kanopy.
	7:46pm Webhamster Henry: You can see the Making of the Company Soundtrack Documentary on Criterion.
	🎭 7:46pm WR: @7:13 @Listener Gregory: www.discogs.com... according to the discogs listing, Sondheim, piano & voice, They quote the liner notes of the CD.
	7:48pm Doug Schulkind: Charmian Carr was an early crush.
	7:48pm Webhamster Henry: I'm much more familiar with the 1985 concert version of Follies.
	🎭 7:48pm Listener Gregory: @WR, thanks! The piano playing was quite impressive for someone who was not a performer. And very good for someone who was.
	7:53pm Listener Gregory: Some of these songs are really good!
	7:53pm Webhamster Henry: 1985 was a kind of empty time on Broadway, so the 1985 concert was simultaneously nostalgia for the original material and the kind of Broadway that could produce Follies in 1970. Little did they know the Disnified future in store for them!
	7:57pm ?: Just tuning in. I'll be listening to the archived show too!
	7:57pm Marie: I am ?!
	7:57pm Webhamster Henry: FTH p 235 has that anecdote about Losing My Mind.
	8:01pm Webhamster Henry: It's specifically written for Glynis Johns' range.
	8:02pm Julie: hi Marie!
	8:03pm Webhamster Henry: ... who is still alive and the oldest living Oscar nominee in an acting category.
	8:03pm Doug Schulkind: @Webhamster Henry Not so much her range, but her inability to sustain notes. Sondheim says this is why the song is made up questions. Stated questions are short and declarative not requiring long, sustained syllables.
	8:03pm Listener Gregory: BB, Sarah Vaughan does a great version of Send in the Clowns on her album of that name, which I recommend checking out. She manages to span her entire (huge) range in the song.
	8:04pm Bronwyn Bishop: UH OH EVERYONE THE FROGS ARE HERE
	8:04pm Marie: Hi Julie!!! @))
	8:08pm Webhamster Henry: "This song may seem inordinately long, but it accompanied a ten minute long aquatic ballet..." = FTH p 295
	🎭 8:09pm diciassette: Thank goodness!
	8:13pm doctorjazz: Hello Bronwyn and listeners!
	8:14pm Webhamster Henry: Even though this is the revised version (with Sondheim additions), you can see you how the gruesomeness of the satire wouldn't fly in 1956.
	8:14pm Bronwyn Bishop: @Henry: I personally wish that song was even longer! I wish it was 20 minutes long!!!!
	8:15pm Little Danny: hello bronwyn, hello everybody
	8:15pm Webhamster Henry: Brek-kek-kek-kek is in the original Greek!
	8:15pm Bronwyn Bishop: @Gregory: I will check that out, sounds amazing!!!
	8:16pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hi doctorjazz and Danny!! :D
	8:17pm Listener Gregory: The 1991 recording of the “final revised version” of Candide, with a bunch of opera singers and conducted by Bernstein is really good. Two CD set for those who believe in physical objects (Deutsche Grammophon). I listen to it every year or so.
	8:19pm doctorjazz: Not sure if the levels were raised, but the volume on my stereo is turned higher than I ever remember having it.
	8:20pm Webhamster Henry: Stavisky was on the B side of cassette 2 of that Follies Concert. Also Youtube has the Candide with Kristin Chenoweth and Patty LuPone and a Donald Trump caricature: www.shoutfactory.com...
	🎭 8:20pm diciassette: Stavisky is on Kanopy (at least if you are connected to the SFPL) I don't mind bumping the gain on this end if the mic/line are about the same, and they seem to be today!
	8:20pm Bronwyn Bishop: @Gregory: That also sounds amazing and I will also check that out!!!
	8:21pm Marie: Beautiful!
	8:21pm Bronwyn Bishop: Studio C is a fickle mistress and I have it turned all the way up on the board and computer :(
	🎭 8:21pm diciassette: It's been like this since you (and we) moved in!
	8:21pm Bronwyn Bishop: @Henry: I watched that Candide and gasped in horror when not-Trump showed up (I think he even made a cameo in person at one performance?)
	8:22pm doctorjazz: It's fine with the dials up (just have to remember to turn it down before anything else plays through it).
	8:23pm Webhamster Henry: It's a pretty silly production! They use silliness to get around Candide's various problems.
	8:23pm Marie: It's like that one melodic pattern is also "saying" there is no other way
	8:23pm Webhamster Henry: Pacific Overtures is kind of like nothing before or since.
	8:25pm Webhamster Henry: Revivals of PO have to update the end a bit to bring it up to the present.
	8:29pm Doug Schulkind: Sing the whole thing! Sing the whole thing!
	🎭 8:29pm WR: Yay Mom B!
	8:29pm Webhamster Henry: "Turn off that screaming woman" -- college hall mates about Sweeney Todd.
	8:32pm MOM WHIG: Hi there, Doug S, listener Gregory, Julie, WR, TonyR, docjazz
	8:33pm Webhamster Henry: I saw the original production of Sweeney 3 times .. and even visited Angela Lansbury at her (emptied) dressing room the night of her last performance. I also saw Dorothy Louden version later that year.
	8:34pm MOM WHIG: Webhamster H - WOW - so lucky! grew up with a ton of these shows tunes. What a master of tunes he was.
	🎭 8:35pm WR: Hi Mom Whig WHH. Wow.
	8:35pm Doug Schulkind: Hello, MW!
	8:37pm Listener Gregory: I really would like to be known as the demon retiree of Garden Street. Working on it. First step: You kids stay off my lawn!
	8:37pm Marie: What a voice!
	8:38pm Webhamster Henry: I've sung "Epiphany" at Karaoke. 🪒🥧
	🎭 8:41pm WR: Third time hearing this song, Finishing the Hat, this week. Enjoying it more, getting more from it each time.
	8:42pm Marie: I'm cooking tapioca pudding and it kinda looks like frogs eggs sometimes... @) I want to see The Frogs play now
	8:42pm Listener Gregory: I have a definite memory of seeing Sunday with the original cast on TV (PBS, most likely). Can anyone confirm that this is not a false memory?
	8:43pm Doug Schulkind: Yesterday was George Seurat's 162nd birthday.
	8:44pm doctorjazz: Some pecan pie and Acid Jazz Hands, life is good...
	8:46pm Marie: 162, wow. Hey Doug.
	8:47pm Marie: A belated hello to everybody!
	🎭 8:48pm WR: @8:42 @Listener Gregory: from wikipedia en.wikipedia.org... Sunday in the Park with George was taped on October 21–25, 1985, at the Booth Theatre with most of the original Broadway cast. It was broadcast on American television on February 18, 1986, on Showtime and on June 16, 1986, on PBS's American Playhouse. (Bernadette Peters, who was performing in Song and Dance at the time of the taping, was given time off from that play to tape this production.[33]) Warner Home Video released the recording on VHS on April 1, 1992; Image Entertainment released the DVD and laserdisc on March 23, 1999. The DVD includes full-length commentary by Sondheim, Lapine, Patinkin, and Peters.
	8:49pm Doug Schulkind: Netflix has the documentary Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Hapened. "The cast and crew of the 1981 Broadway musical 'Merrily We Roll Along' recall joy and heartbreak during the production of a surefire hit that wasn't."
	8:49pm Webhamster Henry: "Unworthy" is in the news because Hinkley now is home with an unconditional release and wants to be a musician
	8:50pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hi, Bronwyn and memorable crowd. Nice celebration show tonight. Tomorrow is the birthday of Max Baer Jr., b. 1937 (aka Jethro Bodine).
	8:51pm Listener Gregory: Thanks, @WR! Sounds like I can maybe relive the experience on DVD. I remember it being tremendous.
	8:52pm Pleasant Surprise: Annie Golden of The Shirts. Her brother Pat was the nicest guy ever. RIP Pat.
	8:53pm Pleasant Surprise: Thanks all. Esp Bronwyn and the color commentary from Doug & Henry
	8:53pm Julie: I think most folks of a certain age will know Annie best from orange is the new black. But she'll always be the girl from the movie Hair for me
	8:54pm headcleaner: Has anything changed since the days of ancient Rome?
	8:55pm Pleasant Surprise: And Cliff Calvin’s only girlfriend Julie. Thx
	8:55pm Little Danny: thank you so much Bronwyn, esp. loved hearing your personal appreciation(s) of Sondheim
	8:56pm Julie: oh geez it's over
	8:56pm Julie: thanks Bronwyn, it's a rough show to do but you're the one to do it best
	8:57pm Bronwyn Bishop: I wanted to do another talk set but didn't end up having time which is just as well because now I'm crying again
	🎭 8:58pm WR: Thank you Thank you Bronwyn. Smiling through tears.
	🎭 8:58pm diciassette: Thank you Bronwyn B!
	8:58pm Bronwyn Bishop: I love you Sondheim!!! LONG LIVE MUSICAL THEATRE!!!!!!
	8:59pm Doug Schulkind: You can go re-watch to footage of the Broadway stars singing this en masse last Sunday... and re-weep. I know I will.
	8:59pm Bronwyn Bishop: thank you all for joining me i love you all!!!!
	8:59pm doctorjazz: Thanks, Bronwyn, great tribute!
	8:59pm Webhamster Henry: That 1993 Celebration show is very uneven but check out Harolyn Blackwell's Green Finch and Linnet Bird: www.youtube.com... Here's a real closer, which didn't fit in this not-long-enough show: www.youtube.com...
	9:00pm Doug Schulkind: Bravo Bronwyn.
	9:00pm Listener Gregory: That was perfect, Bronwyn. Thanks so much!
	9:00pm Webhamster Henry: Thanks Bronwyn and SS fans!
	9:01pm Marie: Thanks, Bronwyn! Will you be doing a Volume 2, perchance?

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from December 3, 2021

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