Pal Joey

[Glebb]

Posted: 8/23/05 at 10:23pm

Pal Joey will be proud of me.
I've started listening to Pal Joey, City Center Encore cast on my iPod, on the way to work in the mornings.

Posted: 8/23/05 at 10:28pm

Just stay away from the den of iniquity.

[Glebb]

Posted: 8/23/05 at 10:30pm

Patti's sounding good.
What do you think?

Updated On: 8/23/05 at 10:30 PM

Posted: 8/23/05 at 10:31pm

You sound bewitched, bothered and bewildered.

Posted: 8/23/05 at 10:41pm

I want all you funny valentines out there to give Glebb some tidbits about PAL JOEY and the Encores! recording.

Ah...Peter Gallagher sings Joey.

The original production, opened Christmas Day 1940, and starred Gene Kelly, and co-starred Vivienne Segal as the Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered Vera Simpson, also June Havoc ("Zip"). Van Johnson was in in the chorus. And if I recall correctly BWW's very own "OnceADancer," Miriam, in the chorus as well.

Both Gene and Van would each soon co-star opposite Judy Garland at MGM before the decade was over.

[Glebb]

Posted: 8/23/05 at 10:42pm

Very cool!
I love Zip.

Posted: 8/23/05 at 10:47pm

The Encores! production was quite something, too. Patti did a superb job as Vera.

The last Broadway revival, which I saw, was in 1976, and the cast included Dixie Carter and Marilu Henner.

Christopher Chadman didn't do it as Joey.

[Glebb]

Posted: 8/23/05 at 10:47pm

Was that the Villella revival?
He was an amazing and inspiring artist.

Updated On: 8/23/05 at 10:47 PM

Posted: 8/23/05 at 10:59pm

Yes, indeedy.

Edward Villella was replaced (as Joey) in previews, and Eleanor Parker was replaced as Vera. Yes, that Eleanor Parker, The Baronness from the film version of THE SOUND OF MUSIC.

Unfortunately both the replacements that opened the revival (Chadman and Joan Copeland) had no chemistry and generated no magic together or alone.

The score remains solidly terrific 60 years later.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 1:20am

Glebby, it's a wonderful recording, isn't it?

I'm glad you're enjoying it!

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 7:15am

What is a man?

[Dollypop]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 7:35am

Christopher Chadman came across as much too gay to be a convincing Joey.

Dixie Carter was very funny when she sang "Zip:.

Posted: 8/24/05 at 7:36am

So is Elaine Stritch--very funny when she sings "Zip."

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 7:42am

Let's not forget Bebe Neuwirth---She was wonderfully comical and completely sold that song.

[Glebb]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 8:32am

I met her at The Yankee Clipper
And she didn't unzip one zipper

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 12:11pm

ZIP!

I was reading Schopenhauer last night...

ZIP!

And I think that Schopenhauer was right.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 8/24/05 at 12:14pm

Zip! Walter Lippman wasn't brilliant today.
Zip! Will Saryan ever write a great play?
Zip! I was reading Schopenhauer last night.
Zip! And I think that Schopenhauer was right.
I don't want to see Zorina,
I don't want to meet Cobina.
Zip! I'm an intelectual.
I don't like a deep contralto,
Or a man whose voice is alto.
Zip! I'm a heterosexual.
Zip! It took intelect to master my art.
Zip! Who the hell is Margie Hart?

Zip! I consider Dali's painting passe.
Zip! Can they make the Metropolitan pay?
Zip! English people don't say clerk, they say clark.
Zip! Anybody who says clark is a jark!
I have read the great Cabala,
And I simply worship Allah.
Zip! I am just a mystic.
I don't care for Whistler's mother,
Charlie's aunt, or Shubert's brother.
Zip! I'm misogynistic.
Zip! My intelligence is guiding my hand.
Zip! Who the hell is Sally Rand?

Zip! Toscanini leads the greatest of bands.
Zip! Jergens Lotion does the trick for his hands.
Zip! Rip Van Winkle on the screen would be smart.
Zip! Tyrone Power will be cast in the part.
I adore the great Confucius,
And the lines of luscious Lucius.
Zip! I am so ecletic.
I don't care for either Mickey Mouse and Rooney make me sicky!
Zip! I'm a little hectic.
Zip! My artistic taste is classic and dear.
Zip! Who the hell is Lili St. Cyr?

[Glebb]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 8:20am

Love it Cookie! Thanks.
Lots of nice songs in this show.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 8:21am

I keep thinking you're bumping me ;-(

[Marquise]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 8:26am

From the front or from behind?

[Glebb]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 8:32am

Hi PalJoey! No Ravinia this weekend?
Marquise - are you feeling Randy this morning?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 8/27/05 at 12:28pm

It's all good. No?