WFMU: Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from July 16, 2021

Listener comments!
	🎭 7:00pm Listener Gregory: Just unpacked the car from a day trip and realized I am just in time for you-know-what. The stream before the show is making me wonder whether it would be possible to do a total yodeling Acid Jazz Hands.
	🎭 7:01pm Listener Gregory: Whoops, Edwin Drood is half the volume of the prior stream... if that.
	7:03pm doctorjazz: Hi all!
	🎭 7:03pm WR: Hi AJH aficionados, I'm am a tried and true failure at yodeling. Yes, LG, and seems half the volume of another stream, yes I am double streaming.
	🎭 7:06pm Listener Gregory: For the record, I would prefer to be beaten 1 to the bar. Or less, if possible. Howdy, @doctorj!
	🎭 7:07pm Listener Gregory: And @AR.
	7:08pm doctorjazz: Hi, LG and WR!
	🎭 7:09pm diciassette: Ahoy BB, DJ, LG, and WR (in alphabetical order!)
	7:11pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hi everyone :D
	🎭 7:13pm Listener Gregory: AR = WR, of course.
	🎭 7:14pm Listener Gregory: You’ll find that things are worthwhile… if you’ll just smile.
	🎭 7:15pm Listener Gregory: Someone stopped smiling for a second!
	7:19pm Bronwyn Bishop: living in terror of another DJ coming down the hall and catching me playing this
	🎭 7:21pm diciassette: You can always bar the door and laugh maniacally!
	7:22pm doctorjazz: I think Billy Jam KNOWS...
	🎭 7:22pm Listener Gregory: Interestingly, the Victor Hugo novel behind this is superb, but the Dickens novel behind Edwin Drood is clearly his weakest. A musical sending it up is called for.
	🎭 7:33pm diciassette: "The failure of the musical was so total that it compelled the Nederlander Organization to finally sell the beloved but flop-prone Mark Hellinger Theatre to the Times Square Church, which still owns it.[2]"
	7:34pm Bronwyn Bishop: Every time I pass the Times Square Church and I'm with someone I tell them the tale of the Mark Hellinger
	🎭 7:44pm Listener Gregory: The film Grand Hotel is a true classic. Apparently, this is where Greta Garbo intones, "I want to be alone!" (for those over 40 who remember such things).
	🎭 7:51pm diciassette: Filichia makes a pretty good joke in the table of contents when he lists the biggest hit of 1988-89 as "My Marriage to Ernest Borgnine," which turns out to be a blank page in Ethel Merman's biography!
	🎭 7:51pm diciassette: *auto
	🎭 7:51pm Listener Gregory: I hope this has a happy ending (Miss Saigon).
	7:54pm Bronwyn Bishop: @diciassette: I was so confused by that at first but then I LOL'd
	7:55pm Bronwyn Bishop: @Gregory: Of course, it ends with everyone holding hands under a rainbow ;)
	🎭 7:56pm Listener Gregory: This version of the song does not top the Fred Astaire version, IMHO. Fortunately, the 1993 Broadway audiences probably didn't know/remember that. His performance is much livelier.
	🎭 8:04pm WR: I revere Chita Rivera, love the Kiss of the Spider Woman movie, but this Gimme Love is not connecting for me.
	8:06pm Bronwyn Bishop: I'll take "movies that were absolutely not screaming for a musical adaptation" for $500 alex
	🎭 8:06pm diciassette: Well, it's time for my occasional Bernadette Lazzara fainting spell
	🎭 8:06pm diciassette: Martin Short sounds pretty tall in this one
	8:06pm melinda: @Bronwyn haha
	8:07pm Bronwyn Bishop: I'm surprised by how competent his singing is
	🎭 8:07pm diciassette: He's a professional chameleon!
	🎭 8:08pm Listener Gregory: Short used to do musical send-ups on the Letterman show pretty regularly (usually pretty funny). I think if you subtracted the send-up, he might have been able to do the musical on its own.
	🎭 8:09pm diciassette: I saw a Johnny Carson clip where he sat next to Bette Davis and started turning into her
	🎭 8:10pm TonyR: I give up. Been trying to say that last week, the music was low and mic hot (but apparently normal, compared to next show on Drummer stream). Looks like this week started out low, also, but I wasn't here at 7 tonight.
	🎭 8:12pm diciassette: As long as the mic/line are reasonably together I'm in! I have volume knob on the hifi
	🎭 8:12pm Listener Gregory: @BB, I don't see the Nick & Nora play in the playlist. I loved the old movies.
	8:13pm melinda: I graduated from college in 1994. The year of the white bronco slow chase.
	🎭 8:13pm diciassette: In 1994 I quit smoking for lent
	🎭 8:13pm WR: @LG, I think it is the song from Musicality of Strouse
	🎭 8:14pm TonyR: Yeah it was all good seated at the computer, not so good cast to the big speakers... In the bedroom.
	🎭 8:15pm Listener Gregory: @WR, yikes! Oh, the song was originally in a failed Nick 'n' Nora musical and then got put into the Strouse collection? That would make sense.
	8:15pm Bronwyn Bishop: to elaborate on what irritates me about the added dialogue here- ashman's lyrics PERFECTLY illustrate the fact that they're falling in love, we don't need a bunch of dialogue to help it along
	🎭 8:16pm Listener Gregory: Note to soundtrack producers: Kindly avoid "a whole schmegeggy!"
	🎭 8:24pm Listener Gregory: In retrospect, "Teach me how to shimmy" makes me long for a whole schmegeggy.
	8:24pm Bronwyn Bishop: I think he said "wanted my pool, my dose of fame" but it really sounds like he says "wanted my pool, my dorsal fin"
	🎭 8:26pm TonyR: There be dragons!
	🎭 8:28pm diciassette: Million dollar sediment!
	🎭 8:29pm Listener Gregory: Dish the dirt!
	🎭 8:37pm Listener Gregory: The song from Big is confusing me: standard pop song structure orchestrated by Mozart? With dialogue?
	🎭 8:41pm diciassette: We had it coming!
	8:45pm Bronwyn Bishop: @Gregory: Yeah I have no idea what the usually brilliant David Shire was going for there
	🎭 8:45pm Listener Gregory: How did Jim Steinman get demoted from hit songwriter to only the lyricist?
	8:45pm Bronwyn Bishop: Lord Lloyd Webber collaborates on music with no man!
	🎭 8:46pm Listener Gregory: Did you know that Lloyd Webber used to be Lloyd-Webber, but the House of Lords does not permit hyphenated names, do he had to change it? This is true; or so I read in the British press once.
	🎭 8:47pm diciassette: I believe everything I read in the Daily Mail
	🎭 8:49pm diciassette: Paul Simon should be on-deck.. I can't wait to see what happens next.
	8:57pm Bronwyn Bishop: Closing out with the 1998-1999 flop because I don't have time to play both it and its corresponding hit, and I think the hit would make a nice opening for next week's show
	🎭 8:58pm diciassette: Brava! Thank you, Bronwyn B
	9:00pm Bronwyn Bishop: thank YOU diciassette (and everyone)
	🎭 9:01pm WR: I just bought The Capeman. It became an earworm from when you played something from it before. Thank you Bronwyn! Laters drummer streamers!
	🎭 9:02pm Listener Gregory: Thanks, Bronwyn! I didn't see the ending coming. It crept up on me.

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from July 16, 2021

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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	Approx. start time
John Herrera, Patti Cohenour & Jana Schneider	No Good Can Come from Bad	The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Verve (Adult Contemporary)	1985	Music & Lyrics: Rupert Holmes	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Big Deal Company	Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar	1986 Tony Awards Performance	No Label	1986	Music & Lyrics: Don Raye, Hughie Prince & Eleanor Sheehy	0:03:07 (Pop-up)
Les Misérables Original London Cast	Look Down	Les Miserables (Original London Cast Recording)	Exallshow Ltd	1985	Music: Claude-Michel Schonberg Lyrics: Alain Boublil & Jean-Marc Natel (translated into English by Herbert Kretzmer)	0:06:26 (Pop-up)
Smile Ensemble	The Very Best Week of Our Lives	Smile (Original Broadway Cast Members)	No Label	1986	Music: Marvin Hamlisch Lyrics: Howard Ashman	0:09:09 (Pop-up)

Phantom of the Opera Original London Cast	Masquerade/Why So Silent	The Phantom of the Opera	Polydor	1989	Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Charles Hart & Richard Stilgoe	0:21:46 (Pop-up)
Ambrosian Singers	Press Conference	Chess (The Original Recording)	3 Knights Ltd	1984	Music: Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus Lyrics: Tim Rice & Bjorn Ulvaeus	0:24:41 (Pop-up)
Peter Allen	Prelude/When I Get My Name in Lights	Legs Diamond (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	1988	Music & Lyrics: Peter Allen	0:29:17 (Pop-up)
Brent Barrett	Love Can't Happen "Love Can't Happen" by "Brent Barrett"	Grand Hotel: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	1989	Music & Lyrics: Maury Yeston	0:34:10 (Pop-up)
Danielle Findley	My Daddy "My Daddy" by "Danielle Findley"	Annie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge (Soundboard Audio)	No Label	1990	Music: Charles Strouse Lyrics: Martin Charnin	0:37:32 (Pop-up)

Peter Polycarpou & Lea Salonga	The Fall of Saigon	Miss Saigon	The Verve Music Group	1989	Music: Claude-Michel Schonberg Lyrics: Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr.	0:49:47 (Pop-up)
Kirby Ward, Jeremy Harrison & Vanessa Leigh-Hicks	Slap That Bass	Crazy for You (Original London Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	1993	Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Ira Gershwin	0:52:03 (Pop-up)
Barry Bostwick & Joanna Gleason	Is There Anything Better Than Dancing	Musicality of Strouse	Jay Records	1991	Music: Charles Strouse Lyrics: Richard Maltby Jr.	0:56:39 (Pop-up)
Chita Rivera, Brent Carver & Keith McDaniel	Gimme Love	Kiss of the Spider Woman (Original Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	1993	Music: John Kander Lyrics: Fred Ebb	0:58:59 (Pop-up)
Martin Short, Bernadette Peters & Tammy Minoff	Richard Interred	The Goodbye Girl (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	1993	Music: Marvin Hamlisch Lyrics: David Zippel	1:04:17 (Pop-up)

Susan Egan, Terrence Mann & Gary Beach	Something There	Beauty and the Beast: The Broadway Musical	Buena Vista	1994	Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Howard Ashman	1:17:31 (Pop-up)
Patrick Kelly	Change in Me "Change in Me" by "Patrick Kelly"	Live at Stage 72	No Label	2014	Music & Lyrics: Carol Hall	1:19:30 (Pop-up)
Michael Park & DeLee Lively	Teach Me How to Shimmy	Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller	Atlantic Theatre	1995	Music & Lyrics: Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller	1:21:38 (Pop-up)
Alan Campbell	Sunset Boulevard "Sunset Boulevard" by "Alan Campbell"	Sunset Boulevard (Original Broadway Cast)	Polydor Records	1994	Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Don Black & Christopher Hampton	1:24:11 (Pop-up)

Daphne Rubin-Vega	Out Tonight "Out Tonight" by "Daphne Rubin-Vega"	Rent (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	SKG Music	1996	Music & Lyrics: Jonathan Larson	1:33:17 (Pop-up)
Katy Osborne, Tash Holway & Ross McLaren	The Real Thing	Big: The Musical (Original UK Cast Recording)	Silva Screen Records	2016	Music: David Shire Lyrics: Richard Maltby Jr.	1:35:39 (Pop-up)
Marcia Lewis, James Naughton & Ann Reinking	We Both Reached for the Gun	Chicago the Musical (New Broadway Cast Recording)	BMG Music	1996	Music: John Kander Lyrics: Fred Ebb	1:38:01 (Pop-up)
Whistle Down the Wind Original Stage Cast	No Matter What	Whistle Down the Wind (Original Cast Recording)	The Really Useful Group Ltd.	1998	Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Jim Steinman	1:41:47 (Pop-up)

Samuel E. Wright & The Lion King Ensemble	They Live in You	The Lion King (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Walt Disney Records	1997	Music & Lyrics: Mark Mancina, Jay Rifkin & Lebo M	1:54:44 (Pop-up)
The Capeman Ensemble	Puerto Rican Day Parade	The Capeman (Original Broadway Cast)	Universal Music Classical	1998	Music: Paul Simon Lyrics: Paul Simon & Derek Walcott	1:58:35 (Pop-up)
Shiloh	Judgment Day "Judgment Day" by "Shiloh"	The Civil War: The Complete Work	Atlantic	1999	Music: Frank Wildhorn Lyrics: Jack Murphy	2:00:02 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎭 7:00pm Listener Gregory: Just unpacked the car from a day trip and realized I am just in time for you-know-what. The stream before the show is making me wonder whether it would be possible to do a total yodeling Acid Jazz Hands.
	🎭 7:01pm Listener Gregory: Whoops, Edwin Drood is half the volume of the prior stream... if that.
	7:03pm doctorjazz: Hi all!
	🎭 7:03pm WR: Hi AJH aficionados, I'm am a tried and true failure at yodeling. Yes, LG, and seems half the volume of another stream, yes I am double streaming.
	🎭 7:06pm Listener Gregory: For the record, I would prefer to be beaten 1 to the bar. Or less, if possible. Howdy, @doctorj!
	🎭 7:07pm Listener Gregory: And @AR.
	7:08pm doctorjazz: Hi, LG and WR!
	🎭 7:09pm diciassette: Ahoy BB, DJ, LG, and WR (in alphabetical order!)
	7:11pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hi everyone :D
	🎭 7:13pm Listener Gregory: AR = WR, of course.
	🎭 7:14pm Listener Gregory: You’ll find that things are worthwhile… if you’ll just smile.
	🎭 7:15pm Listener Gregory: Someone stopped smiling for a second!
	7:19pm Bronwyn Bishop: living in terror of another DJ coming down the hall and catching me playing this
	🎭 7:21pm diciassette: You can always bar the door and laugh maniacally!
	7:22pm doctorjazz: I think Billy Jam KNOWS...
	🎭 7:22pm Listener Gregory: Interestingly, the Victor Hugo novel behind this is superb, but the Dickens novel behind Edwin Drood is clearly his weakest. A musical sending it up is called for.
	🎭 7:33pm diciassette: "The failure of the musical was so total that it compelled the Nederlander Organization to finally sell the beloved but flop-prone Mark Hellinger Theatre to the Times Square Church, which still owns it.[2]"
	7:34pm Bronwyn Bishop: Every time I pass the Times Square Church and I'm with someone I tell them the tale of the Mark Hellinger
	🎭 7:44pm Listener Gregory: The film Grand Hotel is a true classic. Apparently, this is where Greta Garbo intones, "I want to be alone!" (for those over 40 who remember such things).
	🎭 7:51pm diciassette: Filichia makes a pretty good joke in the table of contents when he lists the biggest hit of 1988-89 as "My Marriage to Ernest Borgnine," which turns out to be a blank page in Ethel Merman's biography!
	🎭 7:51pm diciassette: *auto
	🎭 7:51pm Listener Gregory: I hope this has a happy ending (Miss Saigon).
	7:54pm Bronwyn Bishop: @diciassette: I was so confused by that at first but then I LOL'd
	7:55pm Bronwyn Bishop: @Gregory: Of course, it ends with everyone holding hands under a rainbow ;)
	🎭 7:56pm Listener Gregory: This version of the song does not top the Fred Astaire version, IMHO. Fortunately, the 1993 Broadway audiences probably didn't know/remember that. His performance is much livelier.
	🎭 8:04pm WR: I revere Chita Rivera, love the Kiss of the Spider Woman movie, but this Gimme Love is not connecting for me.
	8:06pm Bronwyn Bishop: I'll take "movies that were absolutely not screaming for a musical adaptation" for $500 alex
	🎭 8:06pm diciassette: Well, it's time for my occasional Bernadette Lazzara fainting spell
	🎭 8:06pm diciassette: Martin Short sounds pretty tall in this one
	8:06pm melinda: @Bronwyn haha
	8:07pm Bronwyn Bishop: I'm surprised by how competent his singing is
	🎭 8:07pm diciassette: He's a professional chameleon!
	🎭 8:08pm Listener Gregory: Short used to do musical send-ups on the Letterman show pretty regularly (usually pretty funny). I think if you subtracted the send-up, he might have been able to do the musical on its own.
	🎭 8:09pm diciassette: I saw a Johnny Carson clip where he sat next to Bette Davis and started turning into her
	🎭 8:10pm TonyR: I give up. Been trying to say that last week, the music was low and mic hot (but apparently normal, compared to next show on Drummer stream). Looks like this week started out low, also, but I wasn't here at 7 tonight.
	🎭 8:12pm diciassette: As long as the mic/line are reasonably together I'm in! I have volume knob on the hifi
	🎭 8:12pm Listener Gregory: @BB, I don't see the Nick & Nora play in the playlist. I loved the old movies.
	8:13pm melinda: I graduated from college in 1994. The year of the white bronco slow chase.
	🎭 8:13pm diciassette: In 1994 I quit smoking for lent
	🎭 8:13pm WR: @LG, I think it is the song from Musicality of Strouse
	🎭 8:14pm TonyR: Yeah it was all good seated at the computer, not so good cast to the big speakers... In the bedroom.
	🎭 8:15pm Listener Gregory: @WR, yikes! Oh, the song was originally in a failed Nick 'n' Nora musical and then got put into the Strouse collection? That would make sense.
	8:15pm Bronwyn Bishop: to elaborate on what irritates me about the added dialogue here- ashman's lyrics PERFECTLY illustrate the fact that they're falling in love, we don't need a bunch of dialogue to help it along
	🎭 8:16pm Listener Gregory: Note to soundtrack producers: Kindly avoid "a whole schmegeggy!"
	🎭 8:24pm Listener Gregory: In retrospect, "Teach me how to shimmy" makes me long for a whole schmegeggy.
	8:24pm Bronwyn Bishop: I think he said "wanted my pool, my dose of fame" but it really sounds like he says "wanted my pool, my dorsal fin"
	🎭 8:26pm TonyR: There be dragons!
	🎭 8:28pm diciassette: Million dollar sediment!
	🎭 8:29pm Listener Gregory: Dish the dirt!
	🎭 8:37pm Listener Gregory: The song from Big is confusing me: standard pop song structure orchestrated by Mozart? With dialogue?
	🎭 8:41pm diciassette: We had it coming!
	8:45pm Bronwyn Bishop: @Gregory: Yeah I have no idea what the usually brilliant David Shire was going for there
	🎭 8:45pm Listener Gregory: How did Jim Steinman get demoted from hit songwriter to only the lyricist?
	8:45pm Bronwyn Bishop: Lord Lloyd Webber collaborates on music with no man!
	🎭 8:46pm Listener Gregory: Did you know that Lloyd Webber used to be Lloyd-Webber, but the House of Lords does not permit hyphenated names, do he had to change it? This is true; or so I read in the British press once.
	🎭 8:47pm diciassette: I believe everything I read in the Daily Mail
	🎭 8:49pm diciassette: Paul Simon should be on-deck.. I can't wait to see what happens next.
	8:57pm Bronwyn Bishop: Closing out with the 1998-1999 flop because I don't have time to play both it and its corresponding hit, and I think the hit would make a nice opening for next week's show
	🎭 8:58pm diciassette: Brava! Thank you, Bronwyn B
	9:00pm Bronwyn Bishop: thank YOU diciassette (and everyone)
	🎭 9:01pm WR: I just bought The Capeman. It became an earworm from when you played something from it before. Thank you Bronwyn! Laters drummer streamers!
	🎭 9:02pm Listener Gregory: Thanks, Bronwyn! I didn't see the ending coming. It crept up on me.

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from July 16, 2021

Listener comments!

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