Favorite cast album for a show you have never seen? Nov 12
2019, 04:27:43 PM
"City of Angels"
Love the clever lyrics and the authentic swing score.
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Give Adam Lambert an Emmy Dec 29
2018, 06:32:33 PM
...for his performance in the Kennedy Center Honors tribute to Cher. WOW! Not sure current categories would accommodate this; if not, revive Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program. He’s way deserving!
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Omar Sharif Had Passed Away Jul 10
2015, 11:22:00 AM
Nicky Arnstein, Nicky Arnstein. I'll never see him again. 
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Most Boring Musicals Jun 5
2014, 02:42:57 PM
"The Act" - Kander and Ebb's 1977 star vehicle for Liza
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Songs of sadness/duet Jun 5
2014, 02:31:55 PM
"Glad to Be Unhappy" from On Your Toes
“What Did I Have That I Don’t Have” from On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
“If He Walked Into My Life” from Mame
“I’ll Be Seeing You” from Right This Way
“Meadowlark” from The Baker’s Wife
“Not a Day Goes By” and “Good Thing Going” from Merrily We Roll Along
“Green Finch and Linnet Bird” from Sweeney Todd
“Losing My Mind” from Follies
“You Don’t Know Paree” from Fifty Million Frenchmen
“It’s Alright With Me” fro
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R.I.P. Eydie Gormé Aug 14
2013, 01:18:34 PM
Jerry Herman recalls Eydie Gormé in this Miami Herald interview:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/08/14/3560103/jerry-herman-recalls-eydie-gorme.html
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When people get the song title wrong Apr 26
2011, 12:30:51 PM
I saw "A Conversation with Stephen Sondheim" a few years ago in West Palm Beach and cringed when a man in the audience told the composer that his favorite Sondheim song was "There's A Place for Us" from "West Side Story."
Sondheim responded graciously, but I had to restrain myself from leaping up and apologizing profusely on behalf of all South Florida theatergoers.
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re: Best Rhyme Ever Apr 25
2008, 04:05:53 PM
From City of Angels (Lost and Found):
If you're not celibate, we could raise hell a bit.
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re: 5 musicals you'd love to see revivals!! Apr 7
2008, 10:27:12 PM
City of Angels
Follies
A Little Night Music
House of Flowers
Promises, Promises
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re: Favorite Sondheim Lyric? Mar 29
2008, 06:32:06 PM
Maybe not my very favorite, but it always makes me laugh (especially the way Stritch sings it):
"She's tall enough to be your mother."
--Joanne in "Poor Baby" from "Company"
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re: Which Tony-winning performances have you seen live? Aug 27
2007, 04:20:09 PM
Liza Minnelli, “The Act”
Chita Rivera, "Kiss of the Spider Woman"
Brent Carver, "Kiss of the Spider Woman"
Anthony Crivello, "Kiss of the Spider Woman"
Michael Cerveris, "Assassins"
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re: Who did you see before they were famous?? Aug 27
2007, 03:57:13 PM
Christine Baransky, John Mahoney, Patricia Clarkson and a chubby, 19-year-old Ben Stiller in “House of Blue Leaves” (1986).
Also in the cast were already-known Swoozy Kurtz and Danny Aiello.
Fourth row, center: So close, Ben spit on me, not once but twice!
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re: Favorite Broadway Songs About Places May 29
2007, 07:25:44 PM
"You Don't Know Paree" from Cole Porter's "Fifty Million Frenchmen." If you've never heard the song, do yourself a favor and find a recording. It's heartbreakingly beautiful.
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re: Working Girl - perhaps a musical? May 14
2007, 07:25:02 PM
Bumping for Glebby!
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re: Yodeling in Broadway shows Apr 14
2007, 05:51:33 PM
Does Barbra's vocal trick at the end of "Don't Rain On My Parade" on the "Funny Girl" OBC recording count?
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Worst musicals. Apr 13
2007, 10:57:33 PM
The Act. Dreadful!
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re: Wicked movie: Inspired casting idea Dec 18
2006, 11:05:23 PM
In response to Kringas's comment: "It's completely different. The double-cast actors never played scenes against themselves."
In the movie "Adaptation," Nicolas Cage played against himself to great and inspired dramatic effect. No gimmick there but, rather, art.
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re: Wicked movie: Inspired casting idea Dec 18
2006, 05:51:28 PM
In response to Kringas's comment: "Had Judy Garland played Dorothy and the Scarecrow, you might have a point."
Think possibilities!
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re: Wicked movie: Inspired casting idea Dec 18
2006, 05:49:04 PM
Weez: Take a look at Reese's performance in "Election" for inspiration.
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re: Wicked movie: Inspired casting idea Dec 18
2006, 05:45:14 PM
In response to Kringas's comment, "Shouldn't the text be able to that, rather than relying a gimmick?"
Every literary or dramatic device is a gimmick if poorly executed. If well executed, it's art. Look at how well the same "gimmick" was used in MGM's "Wizard of Oz".
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