Lady in the Dark has been one of my favorite albums this year, and Maria Friedman gives a great performance on it. So when I put on the new complete Anyone Can Whistle and found her performing Faye just like her Liza, I went :D
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The most stunning woman to walk this Earth.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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“Poor Lenny, ten gifts too many / the gift of being versatile. / To show how bad the curse is / we’ll need a lot of verses / and take a little while”
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MUSICAL MASH-UPS!
Musicals We Didn’t Know We Needed
In the hit musical PARADISE SQUAREPANTS Sponge Bob owns a hangout called Paradise Square in Lower Bikini Bottom. He's created an underwater paradise where free Sponges and cultists Sardines can harmoniously sing, dance, and debate. But when a deadly volcano is threatening to erupt, and the Tidal Basin Riots break out, tensions spill over. Things are further complicated when Patchy the Pirate is ejected from Paradise Square claiming he is being persecuted due to pirate stereotypes. He is supported in song (“Poor Pirates”) by a rowdy band he met at a diver bar in nearby Hell's Kitchen.
FUNNY GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY is set in Duluth, Minnesota during the bleak winter of 1934. Nicky Lainstein is proprietor of a rundown guest house where vaudeville star Fanny Brice is stranded during her penultimate farewell tour. During one snow-swept night, Fanny tells Nicky of her tumultuous career in the limelight – all to the music of Bob Dylan.
THE MUSIC MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE is the story of Alfie Byrne, who finds that there's trouble in Dublin City. The cause? Dirty books! The last thing he expects is to fall in love with Salome Peru, the local librarian and her dance of the 76 veils.
THE PHANTOM OF THE THREEPENNY OPERA ~ MacHeath (aka Mack the Knife) lives deep in the catacombs under the Paris Opera House, hiding his disfigured face from the world after a horrible chandelier accident. He falls in love with Polly, a young soprano and part-time slut, and vows he will marry her. This angers her father, Peacham, the manager of the Opera, who will stop at nothing to save his daughter from MacHeath's wretched clutches.
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN-CAN is the musical story of Franc, a con-man who pretends to be a pilot for Air France, but is haunted by his mysterious childhood. His mother Claudine was a can-can dancer in Montmartre who was harassed by a judge who may or may not be his real father. While passing fake travelers cheques at Charles De Gaulle airport, he is pursued by both the law and his past, while singing the show's big number “Catch Me If You Can-Can”
In MY FAIR LADY IN THE DARK magazine editor Liza finds herself plagued by indecision. She is courted by two men: Higgins, a grammar-fixated speech teacher; and Freddy, a romantic street surveyor. When seeing a psychologist, she delves into her dreams of being put on trial for her indecision in a circus setting, with her father Alfie acting as prosecutor, Higgins as chief witness, and Freddy as her defense attorney. She defends her refusal to make up her mind in the searing "Saga of Jenny". Will she fetch his slippers, or go to the races? As the curtain falls, Liza finally makes up her mind.
MR. SATURDAY NIGHT MOTHER is the heart-breaking yet hysterical story of Buddy Young Jr. (Billy Crystal), a washed-up comic who comes home to care for his terminally ill mother. Little does he know that she wants him to help her die - laughing!
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME TIME TO DRAW MY ALT.LB HANGING OUT WITH SCARLET LADY'S LB LETS GOOOOO
(read Scarlet Lady @zoe-oneesama pls)
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People who live in small towns are afraid of cities for the wrong reasons. They think you have to worry about crime, but crime has been declining for years, despite media hype. What you have to worry about is megapolisomancy: about the steel and stone and life of the city coming to life as a living thing, a thing of magic and occult forces, that can be steered into a urban augury by the modern seers and sages of the skyscraper. Also there's a lot more smog
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