110 In The Shade
110 In The Shade
#0110 In The Shade
Posted: 7/19/05 at 5:05pm
Literally.
Here in Southern California we're singin' "It's Gonna Be Another hot Day"
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#2re: 110 In The Shade
Posted: 7/19/05 at 5:15pm
I LOOOVE 110 IN THE SHADE!!!
As LF already noted, the 1999 Studio Cast with Karen Ziemba is a genuine treat to savor:
My favoite song-"Old Maid" (the First Act Finale):
Always being one
Never being two
Re-arrange the furniture
There's nothing else to do
Keep an empty house
Watch your brothers wed
Dream an empty dream at night
Upon an empty bed
Old maid! Old maid!
Growing old alone
Lonelier with age
Buy a tiny mockingbird
And lock him in a cage
Visiting your kin
Yearly family tours
Mustn't love the kids too much
They're never really yours
Old maid! Old maid!
Be kind to your poor Aunt Lizzie
Her nerves are none too good
She brings you a present when she comes
Kiss her like you should
Be thoughtful and sweet and proper
Until she goes away
She's been here a week and a half today
When will she ever go?
Go where? Go where?
My dress is too tight!
My skin is alive all over!
It's turning tonight, and yet not a sign of breeze
I'm all tied up!
My clothes seem to be on fire!
They're tying me up and burning me to the bone!
Why won't it rain?
Please let it rain!
Oh, God
Don't let me live and die alone!
Music: Harvey Schmidt
Lyrics: Tom Jones
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Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#4re: 110 In The Shade
Posted: 7/19/05 at 5:21pm
Beautiful???
The poor woman is in torment--or is that how you like your Ladies? 
#5re: 110 In The Shade
Posted: 7/19/05 at 5:24pm
Beautiful???
The poor woman is in torment--or is that how you like your Ladies?
You know me WAY too well.
The studio cast recording is indeed superb. I wish that they would remaster and reissue the OBCR, so that more people would be able to discover it.
#6re: 110 In The Shade
Posted: 7/19/05 at 5:30pmZiemba rules my world. No, really. She really does.
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#7re: 110 In The Shade
Posted: 7/19/05 at 5:37pm
"They should remaster and reissue the OBCR CD, huh?"
MeFan--you might want to sit down for the next part--RCA Victor did JUST THAT in 1990:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002W1L/qid=1121809006/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-6118113-6534349?v=glance&s=music
#9re: 110 In The Shade
Posted: 7/19/05 at 5:44pmOkay, but the point is that today people are frying eggs on the sidewalk.
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#10re: 110 In The Shade
Posted: 7/19/05 at 5:47pm
Justice--
Don't worry, maybe a handsome con-man will visit and cause it to rain.
Its happened before!
#11re: 110 In The Shade
Posted: 7/19/05 at 6:28pmIt never rains here in SweetRiv...I mean, Palmdale, CA
#12re: 110 In The Shade
Posted: 7/19/05 at 9:33pmhotter here justice, lol
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#13re: 110 In The Shade
Posted: 7/19/05 at 9:48pmE - I check the weather in Palm Springs and marvel at the heat. It was a wonderful evening here in Chicago!
#14re: 110 In The Shade
Posted: 7/19/05 at 10:08pm
and Brd.......we are now getting humid....ARRGH
BUT, it's 90 degrees in the pool, I LIKE THAT!
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#15re: 110 In The Shade
Posted: 7/20/05 at 4:12am
I was musical director/pianist for a production of 110 IN TRHE SHADE about 20 years ago. I must have played "Old Maid" over a hundred times, yet any time an actress brings it in for an audition, I get a little panicky. It's a KILLER song to play on the piano!
Trivia on the studio recording of "110": KZ's husband, Bill Tatum, as well as Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, do cameo spoken lines on it.
Sam Samuelson, who plays Jimmy, has (at least temporarily)given up performing and is now a prominent talent agent in Chicago.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#16re: 110 In The Shade
Posted: 7/20/05 at 8:09amThe humidity seems to have broken on Long Island. What a pleasure to wake up this morning and find we weren't living in soup!
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