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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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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Images
Fiddler on the Roof 2018 Company  Traditsye   Favoriting Fiddler on the Roof 2018 Cast Recording (in Yiddish)  Time Life  2019  Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick (translated into Yiddish by Shraga Friedman) 
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Assassins Original Cast  The Gun Song/The Ballad of Czolgosz   Favoriting Assassins - Original Cast Recording  Masterworks Broadway  1990  Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim 
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Robert Horton  Melisande   Favoriting 110 in the Shade (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  1990  Music: Harvey Schmidt Lyrics: Tom Jones 
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Rosalie Craig / Richard Fleeshman  Barcelona   Favoriting Company (2018 London Cast Recording)  Arts Music  2019  Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim 
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Seesaw Original Broadway Cast  Chapter 4, Number 1909   Favoriting Seesaw  DRG  1990  Music: Cy Coleman Lyrics: Dorothy Fields 
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Blank Theatre Company  Joe Worker   Favoriting The Cradle Will Rock (Complete 1937 Score - 1994 Los Angeles Cast Recording)  Blank Theatre Company  2011  Music & Lyrics: Marc Blitzstein 
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Tonya Pinkins  Lot's Wife   Favoriting Caroline, Or Change (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Hollywood Records  2004  Music: Jeanine Tesori Lyrics: Tony Kushner 
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Sam Taylor  Heaven On Their Minds   Favoriting Good God! A Gospel Funk Hymnal  The Numero Group  2006  Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Tim Rice 
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Lauren Worsham, Lisa O'Hare & Bryce Pinkham  I've Decided to Marry You   Favoriting A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Ghostlight  2014  Music: Steven Lutvak Lyrics: Robert L. Freedman & Steven Lutvak 
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Sid Caesar & Little Me Ensemble  Boom-Boom   Favoriting Little Me (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  1993  Music: Cy Coleman Lyrics: Carolyn Leigh 
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Jackie Gleason & Take Me Along Ensemble  Sid, Ol' Kid   Favoriting Take Me Along (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  1994  Music: Bob Merrill Lyrics: Joseph Stein & Robert Russell 
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Tommy Steele  Lady Botting's Boating Regatta Cup Racing Song   Favoriting Half a Sixpence (Original Soundtrack Recording)  RCA Victor  1968  Music & Lyrics: David Heneker 
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Michael Chadim  Manche Worter Sagt Er Nie   Favoriting Romance Romance - Highlights aus dem Musical - EP  Sound of Music  2019  Music: Keith Herrmann Lyrics: Barry Harman (translated into German) 
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Jubilaumscast Wien 2012  Eine Kaiserin Muss Glanzen   Favoriting Elisabeth Gesamtaufnahme Live - Jubiläumsfassung  HitSquad Records  2012  Music: Sylvester Levay Lyrics: Michael Kunze 
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Forgive Durden  Genesis (feat. Casey Crescenzo)   Favoriting Razia's Shadow: A Musical  Fueled By Ramen  2008  Music & Lyrics: Thomas Dutton & Paul Dutton 
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Paul Shapera & Lauren Osborn  Act I: S3 - Annabel Raises the Dead   Favoriting The Dolls of New Albion: A Steampunk Opera  Paul Shapera  2012  Music & Lyrics: Paul Shapera 
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Robert Westenberg & Mandy Patinkin  Lily's Eyes   Favoriting The Secret Garden (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  2018  Music: Lucy Simon Lyrics: Marsha Norman 
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André DeShields & Ken Page  The Ladies Who Sing with the Band   Favoriting Ain't Misbehavin'  RCA Victor  1987  Music: Fats Waller Lyrics: George Marion, Jr. 
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Gregory Hines & Savion Glover  The Whole World's Waitin' to Sing Your Song   Favoriting Jelly's Last Jam  Verve  1992  Music: Jelly Roll Morton & Luther Henderson Lyrics: Susan Birkenhead 
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Michael Mandell  Eating Myself Up Alive   Favoriting A New Brain (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  1995  Music & Lyrics: William Finn 
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NEWSical Off Broadway Cast  Dr Phil   Favoriting Newsical - First Edition  Off Broadway Cast  2003  Music & Lyrics: Rick Crom 
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Webhamster Henry's Player Piano  A Seasonal Sonatina - Autumn at the Automat   Favoriting Julius Monk: Demi-Dozen Songs  No Label  Unknown  Music: Harvey Schmidt Lyrics: Tom Jones 
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Charles Strouse  Put On a Happy Face   Favoriting Behind the Curtain - Broadway Composers & Lyricists Sing Their Songs  Hoot/Wisdom Recordings LLC  2018  Music: Charles Strouse Lyrics: Lee Adams 
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You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown Off-Broadway Cast  Book Report   Favoriting You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown 1967 Original Off-Broadway Cast  Verve  2000  Music & Lyrics: Clark Gesner 
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Listener comments!

  7:02pm
Jacinda:

Volume is way too low. Can barely hear it. I wanna hear it!
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Bronwyn Bishop:

i just turned it all the way up on the monitor
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Bronwyn Bishop:

is it audible now?
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Doug Schulkind:

Das gud!
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Bronwyn Bishop:

ok good :)
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doctorjazz:

I saw this, really well done, subtitles for those who can't follow Yiddish (are there any folks that can't?)
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doctorjazz:

Hi Bronwyn, and all you acid jazz hands out there!
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Bronwyn Bishop:

hi doctorjazz! i really want to see this production

i <3 yiddish
  7:07pm
Philander Bean:

Acid jazz ears!
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Bronwyn Bishop:

hi philander bean!
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diciassette:

Hello Bronwyn! Hello diurnals!
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Bronwyn Bishop:

hi diciassette :)
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Scraps:

Assassins!!!!
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Bronwyn Bishop:

Yes!!!!

(hi scraps!!!)
Avatar 7:15pm
Scraps:

Jimmy Knepper was the trombone player for centuries for Charles Mingus (my favorite favorite jazz musician)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:16pm
Doug Schulkind:

I gotta run and go pick my daughter up from the train. She's coming home for fall break. Will endeavor to patch you into the car. (Said daughter will l-o-v-e this show!)
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Scraps:

So, well, this day...

Velma deSelby-Bowen, my wife, died October 18 2014, five year ago today. We loved Broadway songs, and we loved going out and singing and listening to other (professional) people sing at piano bars in New York. In the last four or five years of her life, we must have gone out ten times or so every month to piano bars, and our favorite was Rose’s Turn in Greenwich Village, named after a Sondhein/Styne song. We learned to sing in public with piano accompaniment there (I, pretty good eventually, Velma much better), and we made friends of the staff there. We were devastated when it closed, and lots of people were devastated also; the New York Times had a story on its closing, and they had a Times had a video, of which I was the only amateur singing (ten seconds singing Randy Newman’s “Political Science”).

Anyway, of course I remember Velma any time I hear Broadway tunes, today especially.

Me and Velma:

www.facebook.com...
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Scraps:

And:

www.facebook.com...
  7:20pm
WebHamster Henry:

Hi to Lincoln! My sophomore is also home for a break.
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Doug Schulkind:

Big love for you, Scraps.
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Scraps:

Company!!!
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Doug Schulkind:

Shit. I can't leave in the middle of Company. Physically can't do it.
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Scraps:

Thanks, Doug.
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doctorjazz:

So sorry for your loss, Scraps, sounds like you had great times.
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doctorjazz:

Great pics!
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Scraps:

Thanks, doctorjazz.
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Scraps.:

And we did!
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Bronwyn Bishop:

I'm so sorry for your loss, Scraps. I can tell you two were a wonderful couple, it really comes through in the pictures.

*hugs*
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Scraps.:

Thanks, Bronwyn.
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Scraps.:

We were.
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Scraps.:

lots of people said so. :-)
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Scraps.:

good level now!
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Scraps:

That's a great song! Didn't know it, thanks!
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Bronwyn Bishop:

this show is coming back in the spring too!
  7:44pm
WebHamster Henry:

I'll have to catch the archive but i will say i saw Seesaw when it was new and was not impressed, except for Tommy Tune.
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Bronwyn Bishop:

oh wow! well tommy tune was always impressive...impressively tall at the very least
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Scraps:

I know I say this often, but my god, Andrew Lloyd Webber's lyrics are awful.
  7:47pm
Doug Schulkind:

AJH in the car! Fantabulous!
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Scraps:

Brian Wilson and Lee Scratch Perry, producers who burned down their studios!
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Mary Wing:

Whoops, 45 minutes late for Acid Jazz Hands! Hi Bronwyn and friends; I was working on Stan's playlist, so I was in FMU-land, at least.
No bed music?
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Bronwyn Bishop:

@scraps: ALW is not a lyricist! Tim Rice is the lyricist and I actually think he did his best work with ALW- he wasn't great with ALW, but he was better than he was with Alan Menken, who incidentally often gets credited with Howard Ashman's wonderful lyrics and blamed for Rice's terrible ones
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Bronwyn Bishop:

Hi Mary! i have bed music but i guess it was too quiet again lol
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doctorjazz:

Hi Mary!
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Scraps:

Forgot! You're right, and I shouldn't forget that.
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Mary Wing:

Hey doctorjazz, I got the CD for The Band's Visit from the library today, will listen to it over the weekend.
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doctorjazz:

I think you'll like it Mary. (Don't have the CD, but the performances at the show were the best part).
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Scraps:

I love Sid Caesar, at least in Your Show of Shows, with Imogene Coca, the funniest woman in English. Caesar went down from alcoholism for the last thirty years or so of his life, unfortunately
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Bronwyn Bishop:

i wish i could have seen the band's visit! i was in my "just out of college and super broke" phase then though :( but its star katrina lenk will be bobbi in the new company in the spring!
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Bronwyn Bishop:

aaaaand this one is coming back too (although i think it's in the very very early stages at this point)
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Bronwyn Bishop:

everything old is new again
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Scraps:

Lily's Eyes is one of the favorite men's songs of piano bars
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doctorjazz:

I have to say (again) I was disappointed in The Bands Visit when we saw it. The musical performances were fine, but the show wasn't really moving (as the movie was... the touching small interactions just got lost in the show). But, that could just be me (and my wife).
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Scraps:

For men/men duets, I love Sondheim's "It Would Have Been Wonderful"
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melinda:

Hi everyone!
  8:41pm
WebHamster Henry:

@Scraps Agony! Is also fun.
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Scraps:

Yes! Book Report is great!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
doctorjazz:

This is cool!
Thanks, Bronwyn!
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Linda Lee:

fabulous show, Bronwyn B! love hearing this music.
actually saw 'you're a good man, charie brown' off broadway in 1967 & remember 'book report' very well! loved it then, love it now.
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Mary Wing:

Great show!
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Bronwyn Bishop:

hot take: you're a good man charlie brown is the only worthwhile peanuts property
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Bronwyn Bishop:

@scraps: if men at piano bars really sing lily's eyes i gotta get myself to a piano bar stat
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Bronwyn Bishop:

THANK YOU ALL

*kisses*
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Scraps:

okay, that's wrong.

;-) ;-) ;-)
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Linda Lee:

it was a revelation to me seeing adults act out these parts. amazing ~ and Snoopy too!
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Bronwyn Bishop:

i dont know why i just cant get into the rest of peanuts...
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Scraps:

for twenty years, maybe thirty even, Peanuts was GREAT
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Linda Lee:

when this was produced, Peanuts was immensely popular & marketed thoroughly everywhere. t shirts, lunch boxes, books, posters. a broadway show was natural. :-)
Avatar 9:03pm
Scraps.:

the cartoon, of course, not any of the television shows (though some of them were good)
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