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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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Favoriting March 26, 2021: Touch of Evil

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David Bowie  Magic Dance   Favoriting Labyrinth  EMI  1986  Music & Lyrics: David Bowie 
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Steve Martin  Dentist!   Favoriting Dentist! (Little Shop of Horrors)  Geffen  2012  Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Howard Ashman 
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Ron Kurowski  I Want to Eat Your Face   Favoriting The Creature Wasn't Nice  BSX Records  2012  Music & Lyrics: Bruce Kimmel 
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Mabel King  Don't Nobody Bring Me No Bad News   Favoriting The Wiz  Geffen  2007  Music & Lyrics: Charlie Smalls 
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Paul Nicholas  Cousin Kevin   Favoriting Tommy  Polydor Ltd UK  2000  Music & Lyrics: John Entwistle 
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Rob Fowler & Bat Out of Hell Original Cast  In the Land of the Pig the Butcher Is King   Favoriting Jim Steinman's Bat Out of Hell: The Musical (Original Cast Recording)  Ghostlight  2017  Music & Lyrics: Jim Steinman 
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Bob Bingham, Phil Jethro & Marc Pressel  This Jesus Must Die   Favoriting Jesus Christ Superstar  Verve (Adult Contemporary)  2003  Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Tim Rice 
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Chris Cooper & Nathan Pacheco  Let's talk About Me   Favoriting The Muppets (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)  Walt Disney Records  2011  Music & Lyrics: Ali Dee Theodore & Bret McKenzie 
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Kaye Ballard & Alice Ghostley  Stepsisters' Lament   Favoriting Cinderella (Original Television Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  1999  Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II 
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Thurl Ravenscroft  The Headless Horseman   Favoriting Disney Villains Songbook  Walt Disney Records  2020  Music & Lyrics: Don Raye & Gene de Paul 
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Eartha Kitt  Snuff Out the Light   Favoriting The Emperor's New Groove  Walt Disney Records  2000  Music & Lyrics: David Hartley & Sting 
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Ciara Renee, Norbert Leo Butz & Big Fish Original Broadway Cast  The Witch   Favoriting Big Fish (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Broadway Records  2014  Music & Lyrics: Andrew Lippa 
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Taylor Louderman & Original Broadway Cast of Mean Girls  World Burn   Favoriting Mean Girls (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Atlantic Records  2018  Music: Jeff Richmond Lyrics: Nell Benjamin 
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Jon Jon Briones & Miss Saigon Cast  If You Want to Die in Bed   Favoriting Miss Saigon: The Definitive Live Recording  Polydor Records  2014  Music: Claude-Michel Schonberg Lyrics: Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby Jr. 
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Howard Ashman & Alan Menken  Poor Unfortunate Souls (Final Synth Mockup)   Favoriting Walt Disney Records the Legacy Collection: The Little Mermaid  Walt Disney Records  2014  Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Howard Ashman 
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Margaret Hamilton, Nathaniel Frey & Richard Armbruster  Bad Companions   Favoriting Goldilocks (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  1992  Music: Leroy Anderson Lyrics: Jean Kerr, Walter Kerr & Joan Ford 
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Dorothy Loudon, Robert Fitch & Barbara Erwin  Easy Street   Favoriting Annie (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  2007  Music: Charles Strouse Lyrics: Martin Charnin 
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Gregory Harrison & Ronn Carroll  A Powerful Thing   Favoriting Steel Pier (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  2007  Music: John Kander Lyrics: Fred Ebb 
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Mandy Patinkin  Wouldn't It Be Nice   Favoriting The Wild Party  Verve  2007  Music & Lyrics: Michael John LaChiusa 
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Joe Masiell, William Larsen & Clifford Fearl  The Spring of Next Year   Favoriting Dear World (Original Broadway Cast)  Sony Classical  1969  Music & Lyrics: Jerry Herman 
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William Olvis & Original Broadway Cast of Candide  Bon Voyage   Favoriting Candide (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  1956  Music: Leonard Bernstein Lyrics: Richard Wilbur 
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The Camelot Ensemble  Fie on Goodness   Favoriting Camelot (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  1998  Music: Frederick Loewe Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner 
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Robert Westenberg & Danielle Ferland  Hello, Little Girl   Favoriting Into the Woods (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  2007  Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim 
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Martin Gabel  I Shall Miss You   Favoriting Baker Street  Verve  2007  Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick 
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Matt Boehler & Brian Wallin  Freedom of the Press   Favoriting The Cradle Will Rock (Live)  Bridge Records  2018  Music & Lyrics: Marc Blitzstein 
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Howard McGillin  Jasper's Confession   Favoriting The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Verve  2007  Music & Lyrics: Rupert Holmes 
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Henry Calvin & Kismet Ensemble  Was I Wazir?   Favoriting Kismet: A Musical Arabian Night (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  2007  Music: Alexander Borodin (adapted by Robert Wright & George Forrest) Lyrics: Robert Wright & George Forrest 
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Danny Sewell  My Name   Favoriting Oliver! (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  2003  Music & Lyrics: Lionel Bart 
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Kurt Kasznar & Marion Marlowe  How Can Love Survive?   Favoriting The Sound of Music (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Craft Recordings  2019  Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II 
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Tom Waits  just the right bullets   Favoriting The Black Rider  Island Records  1993  Music & Lyrics: Tom Waits 
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The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company  When the Night Wind Howls   Favoriting Gilbert and Sullivan: More Vintage Favourites  Regis Records  2010  Music: Arthur Sullivan Lyrics: W.S. Gilbert 
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Bryn Terfel  Stars   Favoriting Bad Boys  Deutsche Grammophon  2010  Music: Claude-Michel Schonberg Lyrics: Alain Boublil & Jean-Marc Natel (translated into English by Herbert Kretzmer) 
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John Leslie Wolfe, Herndon Lackey & John Hickok  Where Will You Stand When the Flood Comes?   Favoriting Parade (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  2007  Music & Lyrics: Jason Robert Brown 
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John Cullum  Molasses to Rum   Favoriting Columbia Pictures Presents Jack L. Warner's 1776 Original Soundtrack Recording  Columbia Records  2007  Music & Lyrics: Sherman Edwards 
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Edmund Lyndeck  Johanna   Favoriting Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  2016  Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim 
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Sherrill Milnes  Te Deum   Favoriting Puccini: Tosca  Decca Music Group Limited  1978  Music: Giacomo Puccini Lyrics: Luigi Illica & Giuseppe Giacosa 
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Lena Horne & Harry Belafonte  There's a Boat That's Leavin' Soon for New York   Favoriting Porgy and Bess  RCA Victor  1959  Music: George Gershwin Lyrics: Ira Gershwin 
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Listener comments!

Avatar 7:00pm
Listener Gregory:

Why should we limit ourselves to a touch?
Also, good evening.
Avatar 7:01pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Good evening Gregory :)))
Avatar 7:02pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Two more generous pledgers I want to thank who helped us reach our goal (sorry I forgot to thank you in the actual show): Benjamin F. and Nacho Bravo!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:02pm
doctorjazz:

Hey Bronwyn, LG, Jazzers!
Avatar 7:02pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Hey doctorjazz!! :D
Avatar 7:03pm
Listener Gregory:

@doctorj!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:04pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hi Bronwyn! villain songs tonight?
Avatar 7:05pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Hi Henry!!! YES!!! :D
Avatar 7:05pm
Listener Gregory:

Honestly, I didn't wait for your villain's show. I started on villainy on my own.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:05pm
Webhamster Henry:

This is going to be fun!
Avatar 7:07pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

this was released as a single, guys. a single!
Avatar 7:11pm
Listener Gregory:

Is that Leslie Nielson on the cover of the soundtrack??
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:11pm
Webhamster Henry:

Bruce Kimmel was also responsible for THE FIRST NUDIE MUSICAL.
Avatar 7:14pm
Listener Gregory:

He's not a bad man, just a bad wizard!
Avatar 7:15pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

this was written by john entwistle instead of pete townshend like all 300 other songs in tommy. i wonder why??
  7:17pm
Doug Schulkind:

Bad guys? Good guise!
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diciassette:

Ahoy! It's no more Mr Nice Guy, here at Acid Jazz Hands, innit
  7:24pm
;;;:

I remember reading that Pete Townshend asked John Entwistle to write the two songs where Tommy was traumatized by relatives because doing so was too much for him and because creepy, dark songs were sort of John's specialty
Avatar 7:24pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

@Henry: Oh boy I'll have to check that out, whatever it is
Avatar 7:24pm
Listener Gregory:

There are deep theological questions here, seriously. If Jesus was not condemned and crucified, then original sin would not have been atoned for, and humanity would not have been saved from eternal torment. So, are the people who did that really villains? Without them, there is no Christianity. Discuss.
  7:29pm
Doug Schulkind:

Thurl?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:29pm
Webhamster Henry:

So Thurl!
  7:30pm
Doug Schulkind:

Thurltastic!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:31pm
Webhamster Henry:

Thurltha!
Avatar 7:34pm
Listener Gregory:

Thurly wundrful.
Avatar 7:43pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

@;;;: Thanks for the info, friendly collection of semicolons!
Avatar 7:43pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Thurl and Eartha, two people who are probably the only people ever with their respective names
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:44pm
Webhamster Henry:

This is a pretty elaborate mockup!
Avatar 7:45pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

I like this demo because it sounds like Alan Menken is cosplaying as the Silver Apples with his crazy synths here (and because Howard Ashman goes BALLS OUT as Ursula)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:51pm
doctorjazz:

The demo was really cool!
Avatar 7:53pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

they were too cool, they really were
Avatar 7:54pm
Listener Gregory:

To my mind, the most evil character in the theater is Iago. Is there no musical version of "Othello"? I guess it wouldn't be the feel-good musical of the summer...
Avatar 7:55pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

both these 3 and the villain in the wiz like to sleep till noon. apparently villains love sleeping
Avatar 7:56pm
Listener Gregory:

Richard III also very bad, and even less likely to appear in a musical, I would guess.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:56pm
diciassette:

Cheers to the Annie contingent!
Avatar 7:58pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

@Gregory: There was an Othello musical called Catch My Soul which premiered in 1968 and allegedly had Jerry Lee Lewis playing Iago at some point. I don't think there's ever been a Richard III musical
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:58pm
diciassette:

..from the Annie Contingent!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:00pm
Webhamster Henry:

Not a musical, but the Ian McKellen Richard III is really good: www.imdb.com...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:00pm
Webhamster Henry:

Shakespeare musicals could be another theme show.
Avatar 8:02pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Great idea Henry!!!
Avatar 8:02pm
Listener Gregory:

Benedict Cumberbatch also a great Richard III. But can he sing???
@BB, incredible that there’s a musical Othello. It is not a pleasant story, really.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:05pm
Webhamster Henry:

I sing Bon Voyage a lot!
Avatar 8:10pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

I would love to witness this Henry
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:12pm
Webhamster Henry:

Well I had Shot #1 today .. maybe I can make it into NYC sometime this year!
Avatar 8:13pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Congrats Henry!!! Someday we should have an NYC AJH meetup...like to watch the Tonys!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:14pm
Webhamster Henry:

Or just to watch NPH sing "Bigger" about 10 times.
Avatar 8:18pm
Listener Gregory:

Maybe what villains really deserve is our understanding.
Avatar 8:28pm
Listener Gregory:

I haven't heard this song (My Name) for decades, yet I know most of the words. Real villainy.
Avatar 8:29pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

you remember...his name! He'd be thrilled
Avatar 8:30pm
Listener Gregory:

I think that role is typically given to someone who can't actually sing. Every version I've heard is like that. It makes the song more threatening.
Avatar 8:31pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

That's a good point, I wouldn't feel very threatened if Mario Lanza sang it
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WR:

hi all, just got off work call, trying to understand the plot line here.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:46pm
WR:

was there more than one musical called Parade? or maybe I'm thinking Easter Parade. so confused here.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:47pm
diciassette:

I've been sharpening knives to the music and a little behind myself
Avatar 8:47pm
Listener Gregory:

More 1776!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:48pm
WR:

diciassette: knives? for the mob?
Avatar 8:49pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

this is probably the most disturbing song in the history of musical theatre
Avatar 8:50pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

@WR: Jerry Herman also had an Off-Broadway revue in 1960 called Parade
Avatar 8:50pm
Listener Gregory:

Yes, and part of its point is that they (we) were all the villains, some just more obvious than others.
Avatar 8:51pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Yep this is a villain song because Rutledge is a scary mean baritone (and because he actually approves of slavery) but they were all complicit!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:53pm
WR:

is the movie version of 1776 recommended? I see that John Cullum did the movie as well.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:55pm
Webhamster Henry:

Johanna was cut from the original production, put on the cast album, and now often is in revivals.
Avatar 8:55pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Yes it's brilliant! Cullum was actually not the original performer on Broadway, that was Clifford David (a tenor who was less intense and more slimy, his version is great too.) Cullum was Rutledge #3
Avatar 8:56pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

@Henry: We included it in our college version because of course we did
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:56pm
doctorjazz:

It was in my daughter's high school Sweeny Todd production, was truly weird.
Thanks, Bronwyn, great show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:57pm
Webhamster Henry:

Judge Turpin was peeping at the diaphanously clad Johanna through the keyhole, says Sondheim on page 349 of Finishing The Hat
Avatar 8:57pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

That is exceedingly weird doctorjazz. In my HS we had a "senior showcase" where some girls did Big Spender...oy. (I did Poor Wandering One from The Pirates of Penzance)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:58pm
WR:

Surprisingly it is the Jerry Herman Parade that i have a tiny bit of familiarity with due to the original cast record which I've seen around.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:00pm
diciassette:

thanks bronwyn!
Avatar 9:00pm
Listener Gregory:

I guess we're not going to hear Randy Newman as a really lovable Devil today.
Excellent show, Bronwyn! Great variety of selections.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:02pm
Webhamster Henry:

Overtime for Villainy!
Avatar 9:02pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

they demanded it!
Avatar 9:02pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

thank u all for listening darlings!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:02pm
doctorjazz:

They would cheat!
Avatar 9:03pm
Listener Gregory:

FYI. I strongly recommend the Ray Charles/Cleo Laine Porgy & Bess. Very contrasting styles, and Charles naturally knocks it out of the park.
Avatar 9:03pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Imagine if all of these villains teamed up, we wouldn't stand a chance
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:03pm
WR:

oh, damn, that other Parade is about the Leo Frank lynching. the Holacast Musuem had amazing sad and scary exhibition about the Leo Frank lynching a few years ago. Chilling, it included history of other lynchings as well for context. Is this a happy song to finish with?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:04pm
doctorjazz:

LG, I serving that Porgy and Bess!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:05pm
WR:

thank you Bronwyn, laters all.
Avatar 9:05pm
Listener Gregory:

@doctorj, you definitely DEserve it. I only have it on the original LP; not sure if it is available in any other form.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:06pm
Webhamster Henry:

Thanks, you bad people, for singin' your evil little hearts out.
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