The right song with the right performer...
Dolores Gray's version of "If" from Two on the Aisle (Styne/Comden & Green)
Elaine Stritch's "Useful Phrases" and "Why Do The Wrong People Travel?" from Sail Away (Noel Coward)
Florence Henderson's astounding "Coconut Girl" sequence from The Girl Who Came to Supper (Noel Coward)
Madeline Kahn's "Babette" from On the Twentieth Century (Coleman/Comden & Green)
Carol Channing's "Calypso Pete" from Show Girl (Charles Gaynor)
Barbra Streisand's "Miss Marmelstein" from I Can Get It For You Wholesale (Harold Rome)
Dorothy Loudon's "Vodka" from Song of the Flame on the 1983 Tony Awards (Gershwin/Stothart/Harbach/Hammerstein)
Phil Silvers and Rose Marie's "A Word a Day" from Top Banana (Johnny Mercer)
Dody Goodman's "Someone's Been Sending Me Flowers" from Shoestring Revue (Sheldon Harnick)
Shirley Booth's "He Had Refinement" from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Schwartz/Fields)
Barbara Harris' "Movie Star"/"Gorgeous" from The Apple Tree (Bock/Harnick)
Carol Burnett's "Lila Tremaine" and "You Mustn't Be Discouraged" (with Tiger Haynes) from Fade Out-Fade In (Styne/Comden & Green)
George S. Irving's "The Butler's Song" from So Long, 174th Street (Stan Daniels)
Patti Perkins' "Things Were Out" from Tuscaloosa's Calling Me... but I'm Not Going (Beebe/Heyer)
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Updated On: 8/26/08 at 04:24 AM