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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 June 9, 2023: Oft-Told Tales

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Images Approx. start time
Christopher Plummer  No Thank You   Favoriting Cyrano (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Universal Classics Group  2014  Music: Michael J. Lewis Lyrics: Anthony Burgess 
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Douglas Sills  alone   Favoriting Cyrano de Bergerac (Demo)  No Label  2004  Music: Frank Wildhorn Lyrics: Leslie Bricusse    0:03:27 (Pop-up)
Unknown Singers  Let the Sun of Thine Eyes   Favoriting Live at Christ & St. Stephen's Church  No Label  2015  Music: Victor Herbert Lyrics: Harry Bache Smith    0:07:11 (Pop-up)
Noah Weisberg  It Just Wasn't Meant to Happen   Favoriting Calvin Berger (Original Cast Recording)  Ghostlight Records  2012  Music & Lyrics: Barry Wyner 
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Haley Bennett, Peter Dinklage & Kelvin Harrison Jr.  Every Letter   Favoriting Cyrano (Film Soundtrack)  Universal Music  2021  Music: Aaron Dessner & Bryce Dessner Lyrics: Matt Berninger & Carin Besser 
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Garou, Luck Mervil, Bruno Pelletier & Helene Segara  Liberes   Favoriting Notre Dame de Paris (Version Integrale)  Pomme Music  2018  Music: Riccardo Cocciante Lyrics: Luc Plamondon 
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Neil Radisch, Charlie Seymour Jr.  What Can I Do   Favoriting The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Original Cast Recording)  Neil Radisch  2013  Music & Lyrics: Neil Radisch & Charlie Seymour Jr. 
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Dennis DeYoung  Esmerelda   Favoriting The Hunchback of Notre Dame  Grand Illusion Records  1996  Music & Lyrics: Dennis DeYoung 
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Vox Lumiere  Save Me   Favoriting Vox Lumiere: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Selected Highlights)  Liquid Ranch  2021  Music & Lyrics: Kevin Saunders Hayes 
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Tony Jay, Tom Hulce & Chorus  Heaven's Light/Hellfire   Favoriting The Hunchback of Notre Dame Original Soundtrack  Buena Vista  1996  Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz 
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Daniel Jenkins & Ron Richardson  Muddy Water   Favoriting Big River - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  MCA Records  1988  Music & Lyrics: Roger Miller 
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Joshua Park & Kristen Bell  To Hear You Say My Name   Favoriting Live on the Rosie O'Donnell Show  No Label  2001  Music & Lyrics: Don Schlitz 
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Paul Winfield & Jeff East  Cairo, Illinois   Favoriting Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn: A Musical Adaptation  United Artists Records  1974  Music & Lyrics: Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman 
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Steven Kimbrough & Dalton Baldwin  River Chanty   Favoriting River Songs  Centaur Records, Inc.  2021  Music: Kurt Weill Lyrics: Maxwell Anderson 
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Tom Sawyer Ensemble  Hannibal Mo-zouree!   Favoriting Tom Sawyer  No Label  1973  Music & Lyrics: Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman 
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Harry Macdonough  Sammy   Favoriting Sammy  Victor  1904  Music: Edward Hutchison Lyrics: James O'Dea    1:25:30 (Pop-up)
Ray Bolger & Judy Garland  If I Only Had a Brain   Favoriting The Wizard of Oz Original Motion Picture Soundtrack  WaterTower Music  1939  Music: Harold Arlen Lyrics: Yip Harburg 
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Ted Ross  (I'm a) Mean Ole Lion   Favoriting The Wiz (Original Soundtrack)  Geffen Records  1978  Music & Lyrics: Charlie Smalls 
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Danielle Hope, Paul Keating & Edward Baker-Duly  Nobody Understands Me   Favoriting Andrew Lloyd Webber's New Production of The Wizard of Oz  The Really Useful Group Ltd.  2011  Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Tim Rice 
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Kristin Chenoweth & Idina Menzel  One Short Day   Favoriting Wicked (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Decca Broadway  2003  Music & Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz 
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J. Pat O'Malley  The Walrus and the Carpenter   Favoriting Alice In Wonderland (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)  Walt Disney Records  1951  Music: Sammy Fain Lyrics: Bob Hilliard 
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Kristine De Bell  If You Just Believe   Favoriting Alice in Wonderland  No Label  1976  Music & Lyrics: Unknown 
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Molly Gordon, Colton Ryan & Heath Saunders  The Key Is   Favoriting Alice By Heart (Original Cast Recording)  Sh-K-Boom Records  2019  Music: Duncan Sheik Lyrics: Steven Sater 
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Linedy Genao  Bad Cinderella   Favoriting Bad Cinderella  The Really Useful Group Ltd.  2022  Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: David Zippel 
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Ilene Woods & Mice Chorus  A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes   Favoriting Cinderella (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)  Walt Disney Records  2005  Music & Lyrics: Mack David, Al Hoffman & Jerry Livingston 
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Listener comments!

  🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
WR:

Hands Up!
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Listener Gregory:

Good morning, late risers!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:02pm
TonyR:

↳ WR @7:00
Hey! I can't see!
Avatar 🎭 7:02pm
David Shortell:

↳ Song: "No Thank You" by "Christopher Plummer"
I didn't know Anthony Burgess wrote for musicals.
Avatar 🎭 7:03pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "No Thank You" by "Christopher Plummer"
I enjoyed that!
Avatar 7:05pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Hello WR, Gregory, Tony and David!!!!
Avatar 🎭 7:06pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "alone" by "Douglas Sills"
That was a demo? It seemed to have a full orchestra.
Hello, Ms. Bishop!
Avatar 🎭 7:14pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "Every Letter" by "Haley Bennett, Peter Dinklage &...
Did anyone see this? Recommendation?
  🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:20pm
WR:

Curiously seems none of the Cyrano productions has been successful. Honestly, I've often confused it with Man of La Mancha.
Avatar 7:23pm
Bob Barth:

↳ Song: "Every Letter" by "Haley Bennett, Peter Dinklage &...
The film is Excellent. Highly recommend.
Avatar 🎭 7:24pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Bob Barth @7:23
Thanks, @Bob.
Avatar 🎭 7:25pm
Listener Gregory:

Bronwyn, the non-musical French film with GĂ©rard Depardieu was quite good. (Saw it when it came out, but not since.) It won a bunch of awards. en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 7:26pm
Bob Barth:

↳ Listener Gregory @7:24
Anytime. It had a microbudget so there was no $ for promotion & alas no one knows of it... but they should.
Avatar 🎭 7:26pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ David Shortell @7:02
Burgess is credited with the English version of the play that is used as the subtitles for the French film I just cited. So maybe these lyrics are just his translations, which were written in verse and so singable.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:28pm
Webhamster Henry:

It's In-Joke Acid Jazz!
Avatar 7:28pm
Bob Barth:

Germany has proved to be a fantastic market for large musicals. My wife worked there for years as Pearl in Starlight Express. It's just easier to get things produced there.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:36pm
Webhamster Henry:

Nice that you got Neil's version.
Avatar 7:42pm
Bob Barth:

↳ Song: "Save Me" by "Vox Lumiere"
I hear a bit of Sisters of Mercy in there
Avatar 7:45pm
Bob Barth:

↳ Song: "Heaven's Light/Hellfire" by "Tony Jay, Tom Hulce ...
This one is, in my mind, the clear winner. This Menken/Schwartz score is gorgeous.
Avatar 7:47pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Two brilliant geniuses who did an amazing job on all these songs except the gargoyle one
  7:47pm
The Crunchwrap of Notre Dame:

The definitive musical adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DyPn_3bNzg
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:48pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: "Heaven's Light/Hellfire" by "Tony Jay, Tom Hulce ...
You have the Happy Meal Figure for Frollo, right?
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Bob Barth:

↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:47
lol - a highlight of my stage career was performing "Out There" in concert for Mr, Schwartz.
Avatar 🎭 7:52pm
Listener Gregory:

Hmmm, my favorite Disney song is When You Wish Upon a Star... now I'm questioning my masculinity.
Avatar 🎭 7:52pm
David Shortell:

↳ Song: "Heaven's Light/Hellfire" by "Tony Jay, Tom Hulce ...
I never saw the animated Hunchback musical, but I heard the gargoyles are named Victor and Hugo.
Avatar 7:54pm
Bob Barth:

They've produced a stage version of that one as well, that has been successful where... you guessed it. Germany.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
TonyR:

Twainworld(tm)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:55pm
Webhamster Henry:

If you haven't been to the Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT, you are in for a treat!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:56pm
TonyR:

Twain had a hot bod. Life is so unfair.
  7:57pm
The Crunchwrap of Notre Dame:

Florida is definitely a favorite in the whitewashing contest so far
Avatar 🎭 7:57pm
David Shortell:

I've read Twain's science fiction novel "Tom Sawyer Abroad".
Avatar 7:58pm
Bob Barth:

Big River starring John Goodman.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
TonyR:

Sweet thought. BB.
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Listener Gregory:

Interesting about the backstory, BB. I didn't know that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
Webhamster Henry:

I hope you get to one of the Kurt Weill Huckleberry Finn songs. It's what he was writing when he died.
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Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "To Hear You Say My Name" by "Joshua Park & Kriste...
Hmm, not sure this is in the spirit of the novel, unless he is going to put a frog down her back at the song climax.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
TonyR:

Sounds like SNL intro music. I don't remember them ever having B'way performances.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
TonyR:

Pirate Becky.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
TonyR:

Rosie O. THAT makes sense.
Avatar 🎭 8:08pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "Cairo, Illinois" by "Paul Winfield & Jeff East"
Strange! I already commented on the history of Cairo, IL on Doug's show today. Back in the day, it was thought to be polsed to become the leading city in Illinois, being at the confluence of the Ohio and Miss. rivers. It did not.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
Webhamster Henry:

Cairo, NY is pronounced the same way.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
Webhamster Henry:

Here's one of those Weill tunes
Avatar 8:15pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Bob Barth @7:58
His rendition of the evil dad's song "Guv'ment" is a classic

DADGUM!
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Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ David Shortell @7:52
...and Laverne
Avatar 🎭 8:21pm
Listener Gregory:

Broadway insiders know: Mddle schools are where you make the real money.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
Webhamster Henry:

Other Twain properties include A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, whence the very funny laundry list song "To Keep My Love Alive"
  8:22pm
Bob Barth:

About to say, licensing is where the money's at. That's a hit on my book. Broadway is frequently wrong.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
ironybread:

Would love to hear anything you could come up with about "Little Nemo in Slumberland", a Broadway hit of 100+ years ago that was so expensive to produce it didn't earn a dime
Avatar 🎭 8:23pm
David Shortell:

↳ Webhamster Henry @8:22
Is that in the film with Bing Crosby?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ David Shortell @8:23
Well, it was a Rogers and Hart Broadway Show..the movie was Burke/van Heusen
Avatar 🎭 8:26pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Song: "Sammy" by "Harry Macdonough"
This "Sammy" is a real cookie cutter of a song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: "Sammy" by "Harry Macdonough"
You could have played Andy Breckman's guitar version!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:27pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Webhamster Henry @8:26
Well not Sammy, "If I Only Had A Brain"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:27pm
Rich in Washington:

Thanks for reminding me that I am long overdue to watch this again.
  🎭 Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
WR:

↳ Webhamster Henry @7:55
Interesting. I've been to Hartford several times but was for work and my free time never matched their hours. Re-bookmarking in my brain to make it there someday.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Listener Gregory @8:26
The practice of the day was to have a very few musical related songs, but also empty your trunk into the show as long as you had an audience, or a new cast member who wanted a specialty.
Avatar 🎭 8:33pm
Listener Gregory:

↳ Webhamster Henry @8:28
I see. IMHO, "Sammy" is real bottom-of-the-trunk material.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:34pm
Rich in Washington:

I coulda sworn they sang "we'll get you and your little GOD too'. But maybe that's my biases showing.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
Webhamster Henry:

I have here in my hot little hand "Miss Gulch Returns" by Fred Barton (as Miss Almira Gulch) www.discogs.com...
Avatar 8:36pm
Bob Barth:

↳ Webhamster Henry @8:35
That is a perfect pride month album.
  8:36pm
Robm:

Hey fellow listeners
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:36pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Bob Barth @8:36
It's actually pretty good!
Avatar 8:37pm
Bob Barth:

↳ Webhamster Henry @8:36
tongue firmly in cheek good but yes pretty good.
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Bronwyn Bishop:

↳ Webhamster Henry @8:27
I was about to be very impressed that Andy did a guitar version of a song from Wizard of Oz 1902 lol
Avatar 8:41pm
Bob Barth:

I'm sure somebody somewhere is producing a stage adaptation of Under the Rainbow.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
ironybread:

↳ Bob Barth @8:41
If it's better than the movie, I'm on board
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
ironybread:

#ThePearlIsInTheRiver
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
Webhamster Henry:

Alec Wilder wrote songs for the Caedmon reading that Cyril Richard did.
Avatar 8:46pm
Bob Barth:

↳ ironybread @8:44
lol - That was in constant rotation on then new-ish HBO when I was a lad.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:48pm
ironybread:

↳ Webhamster Henry @8:46
And here it is, for any interested parties taylorjessen.blogspot.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:49pm
Webhamster Henry:

This is such a WFMU segue....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:52pm
Rich in Washington:

↳ ironybread @8:48
I wonder if that's the source of the reading used in Randy Grief's crazy Alice series. So good.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Rich in Washington:

Hey fellow travelers - I'll be spinning tunes next door right after this show!: wfmu.org...
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northguineahills:

wait, it's not 9 yet!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
Webhamster Henry:

Thanks Bronwyn --- this show wrote itself!
Avatar 🎭 8:57pm
Listener Gregory:

Thanks a lot, Bronwyn. Great idea for a show.
  🎭 Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
WR:

Thank you! Bronwyn!
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Listener Gregory:

I went back to re-listen to the X-rated Alice song, "If You Just Believe," which sounds very good to me. According to Wikipedia, the music was written by Jack Stern, but no explicit (sic) statement about the lyrics. Maybe the script writer Bucky Searles?
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