WFMU: Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from July 2, 2021

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from July 2, 2021

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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July 2, 2021: The Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of Each Season!

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Michael Siberry, Rebecca Luker & Sarah Zelle	Edelweiss	The Sound of Music (1998 Broadway Revival Cast)	BMG Entertainment	first produced 1959	Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Unknown Singer and Pianist	It's Tough to Be a Girl	No Album	No Label	first produced 1959	Music & Lyrics: Vernon Duke	0:02:40 (Pop-up)

Richard Burton	I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight	Camelot (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	first produced 1960	Music: Frederick Loewe Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner	0:14:55 (Pop-up)
Lucille Ball, Keith Andes & Wildcat Ensemble	Give A Little Whistle	Wildcat (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	first produced 1960	Music: Cy Coleman Lyrics: Carolyn Leigh	0:17:36 (Pop-up)
Claudette Sutherland, Bonnie Scott & Robert Morse	Been a Long Day	How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	first produced 1961	Music & Lyrics: Frank Loesser	0:19:28 (Pop-up)
Shelley Berman	Revenge "Revenge" by "Shelley Berman"	A Family Affair (Original Cast Album)	Stage Door Records	first produced 1962	Music: John Kander Lyrics: James Goldman & John Kander	0:22:38 (Pop-up)
Clive Revill, Bruce Prochnik & Oliver! Ensemble	You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two	Oliver! (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Deram Records	first produced 1962	Music & Lyrics: Lionel Bart	0:25:32 (Pop-up)
The Nut House Cast	Smiles "Smiles" by "The Nut House Cast"	No Album	No Label	first produced 1963	Music: Mary Rodgers Lyrics: Martin Charnin	0:30:02 (Pop-up)

Walter Matthau	It Takes A Woman "It Takes A Woman" by "Walter Matthau"	Hello, Dolly!	UMG Recordings, Inc.	first produced 1964	Music & Lyrics: Jerry Herman	0:41:12 (Pop-up)
Angela Lansbury & Anyone Can Whistle Ensemble	A Parade in Town	Anyone Can Whistle (Original Broadway Cast)	Masterworks Broadway	first produced 1964	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	0:43:37 (Pop-up)
Leonard Frey	Miracle of Miracles "Miracle of Miracles" by "Leonard Frey"	Fiddler on the Roof (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)	Capitol/EMI	first produced 1964	Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	0:46:08 (Pop-up)
Lena Horne	Pleasures and Palaces "Pleasures and Palaces" by "Lena Horne"	Pleasures and Palaces/Feeling Good	United Artists Records	first produced 1965	Music & Lyrics: Frank Loesser	0:48:08 (Pop-up)
Irving Jacobson & Gino Conforti	Barber's Song/Golden Helmet	Man of La Mancha	MCA Records	first produced 1965	Music: Mitch Leigh Lyrics: Joe Darion	0:50:14 (Pop-up)
Max Bygraves	Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea	Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea	His Master's Voice	1954	Music & Lyrics: Al Hoffman & Dick Manning	0:55:39 (Pop-up)

Harold Hastings & Cabaret Ensemble	Telephone Song	Cabaret (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	first produced 1966	Music: John Kander Lyrics: Fred Ebb	1:03:39 (Pop-up)
Faith Prince	Lament for Ten Men "Lament for Ten Men" by "Faith Prince"	Breakfast at Tiffany's (World Premiere Cast Recording)	Bruce Yeko	first produced 1966	Music & Lyrics: Bob Merrill	1:05:48 (Pop-up)
James Rado & Hair Ensemble	Where Do I Go?	Hair (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	RCA Victor	first produced 1967	Music: Galt MacDermot Lyrics: Gerome Ragni & James Rado	1:08:38 (Pop-up)
Unknown Singer	I'm Saving Myself for a Soldier	No Album	No Label	first produced 1967	Music: Jerome Coopersmith Lyrics: Martin Charnin	1:11:17 (Pop-up)
Rex Everhart, William Daniels & Ken Howard	The Egg	1776 (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Sony BMG Music Entertainment	first produced 1969	Music & Lyrics: Sherman Edwards	1:13:30 (Pop-up)
Margery Cohen, Loni Ackerman & George Lee Andrews	Song of Me/Today is the First Day of the Rest of My Life/A New Life Coming	Starting Here, Starting Now	Masterworks Broadway	first produced 1968	Music: David Shire Lyrics: Richard Maltby, Jr.	1:17:31 (Pop-up)

Lauren Bacall, Ann Williams & Len Cariou	fasten your seat belts	Applause	ABC Records	first produced 1970	Music: Charles Strouse Lyrics: Lee Adams	1:32:07 (Pop-up)
Helen Gallagher	Where-Has-My-Hubby-Gone Blues	No, No, Nanette (New Broadway Cast Recording)	Sony BMG Music Entertainment	1971 revival	Music: Vincent Youmans Lyrics: Irving Caesar & Otto Harbach	1:34:43 (Pop-up)
Alan Jay Lerner & John Barry	I Must Have Her	Lolita, My Love (Demo)	Footlight	first produced 1971	Music: John Barry Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner	1:38:03 (Pop-up)
Grease Broadway Cast	Beauty School Dropout	Grease - The Original Broadway Cast Album	Polydor	first produced 1971	Music & Lyrics: Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey	1:41:16 (Pop-up)
Bernadette Peters	I Can Cook, Too	No Album	No Label	1972 revival	Music: Leonard Bernstein Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green	1:44:23 (Pop-up)

Ben Vereen	Magic to Do "Magic to Do" by "Ben Vereen"	Pippin	The Verve Music Group	first produced 1972	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz	1:53:13 (Pop-up)
Unknown Singer	Children of the Sun	Via Galactica (Demo)	No Label	first produced 1972	Music: Galt MacDermot Lyrics: Christopher Gore	1:56:08 (Pop-up)

Listener comments!
	7:01pm Listener Gregory: Good evening, Dear Leader! And all.
	♥ 7:02pm diciassette: Hello!
	7:02pm Listener Gregory: If I choke up singing this, I hope you will come on stage and help me.
	♥ 7:03pm WR: volume seems low, particularly after the stream.
	♥ 7:05pm diciassette: The person who uses the studio beforehand must have a REALLY LOUD source or something
	♥ 7:08pm WR: the mic that is on is not near you!
	♥ 7:10pm WR: i would guess you are talking into the wrong mic.
	♥ 7:11pm diciassette: The person who uses the studio beforehand must either be really tall or really short
	🎭 ♥ 7:12pm TonyR: I guess my speakers are not broken. Brownwyn can hardly be heard over the bed music.
	♥ 7:12pm doctorjazz: Hi folks-having trouble with streaming on the stereo, got the phone playing.
	7:12pm Listener Gregory: I love Paul Desmond, but we need to hear BB! This is a great idea for a show, though.
	7:13pm Bronwyn Bishop: aw man sorry did you guys get the whole spiel about hits and flops of each season or do i need to go through it again?
	🎭 ♥ 7:13pm TonyR: Edgy radio mix!
	♥ 7:13pm diciassette: got it!
	🎭 ♥ 7:15pm TonyR: The title on the playlist explains the concept well, but a few words, maybe. It was really rough hearing you. Just so we know no one is hurting the studio. :)
	7:15pm Listener Gregory: Yes, I heard it. It was like we were rude audience members in a jazz club, trying to be heard over the music. I wish we were!
	♥ 7:15pm WR: music is ok volume now but the off mic break was hard to follow.
	🎭 ♥ 7:16pm TonyR: Gregory, were you _talking_ to your sound system?
	7:16pm Listener Gregory: Yes, as usual.
	7:17pm Listener Gregory: BB, maybe you can explain later how you identify the biggest flop of the year. Multiple shows must close after a night or two. Is it the investment to failure ratio?
	♥ 7:19pm diciassette: I think this the textbook for the class! www.amazon.com...
	7:22pm Listener Gregory: Before I saw the listing, I assumed that "Been a Long Day" was in the flop. Good grief, what a song! (IMHO)
	♥ 7:25pm Webhamster Henry: Sing along with Shelley!
	7:33pm Listener Gregory: Voice level fixed!! Loud now.
	♥ 7:33pm WR: absolutely hear you now.
	♥ 7:33pm Webhamster Henry: super loud right now
	♥ 7:34pm diciassette: not actually loud, just relatively loud
	♥ 7:34pm doctorjazz: Sounds ok on my phone
	♥ 7:35pm Webhamster Henry: Ahh, I had it turned up because of the Nut House audio
	♥ 7:37pm diciassette: I had the blue tooth speaker all the way up for the Nut House!
	7:38pm Listener Gregory: Beautiful version of In a Sentimental Mood in the background. That's not from a musical, though, is it??? Duke Ellington standard.
	♥ 7:39pm diciassette: I think we may get to see Sondheim strike out! (I'm following along with the program)
	♥ 7:40pm diciassette: (a.k.a. the amazon preview)
	♥ 7:43pm Webhamster Henry: There's your whistle.
	♥ 7:45pm diciassette: Angela Lansbury sounds so tall ❤️
	♥ 7:50pm Webhamster Henry: I'm glad you are playing kind of deep cuts from the hits.
	7:51pm Listener Gregory: I read a book about the decline of Hollywood musicals in this period, in which Hello Dolly played a part. The general theme was that The Sound of Music made so much money that every studio made a dozen horrible decisions trying to cash in on the supposed trend. Can't find the book title right now but will work on it.
	7:52pm Listener Gregory: One problem with Hello Dolly was that they agreed not to release the movie while the Broadway show was on, but the show just... Would. Not. Die. The interest on the film financing was disastrous.
	♥ 7:52pm Webhamster Henry: This is reminding me of being on a bus with the rest of the Hartt School of Music Kids Chorus on our way to putting on some show and they were all singing Fiddler tunes and I said "Hey that's last year's hit show.. this year's is Man Of La Mancha".
	🎭 ♥ 7:54pm TonyR: Brownwyn should have a stealth distress signal: like playing something from "Cats".
	🎭 ♥ 7:55pm TonyR: Streisand was too young for Dolly Levi. Matthau and Barbra also at war with each other.
	8:21pm Listener Gregory: If you did not know the musicals in this set, I’m convinced you couldn’t guess which ones were successful from these songs. “The Egg”??? Ha ha ha!
	♥ 8:24pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hiya, Bronwyn & bunch. You heard about efd's recent Sparks spectacular? www.wfmu.org...
	♥ 8:31pm diciassette: They sure wrote a song, didn't they!
	8:32pm Listener Gregory: No need to defend "The Egg," BB. It is a good song that actually advances the plot and ideas of the play. It just doesn't sound like it's from a hit musical. Nor Telephone Song.
	8:32pm Bronwyn Bishop: lollllll
	8:32pm Bronwyn Bishop: EH EH EH EHHHHH
	8:33pm Listener Gregory: That was special.
	8:33pm Parq: I gotta admit, right offhand, I can't think of a showtune that was worse than that.
	8:41pm Listener Gregory: Did he just refer to "a mushroom in the sky"?
	♥ 8:41pm diciassette: This is really bad. I'm clicky-starring it.
	♥ 8:42pm Webhamster Henry: How many wives in was AJL at the time?
	8:45pm Listener Gregory: Again, I would challenge anyone before the musical became a hit to predict that from Beauty School Dropout. Perhaps it all goes to show that the quality of the song is not the only or main determinant of success. It's how all the parts fit together.
	♥ 8:51pm diciassette: I am just now starting feel nostalgic for 1999, me!
	8:54pm Listener Gregory: A later revival of On the Town, in 2014, seems to have been fairly successful. Ran for 368 performances and nominated for a bunch of awards. Of course, the movie disastrously threw out a bunch of Bernstein songs.
	♥ 8:56pm doctorjazz: Such a fun show, thanks, Bronwyn!
	8:58pm Bronwyn Bishop: aaaaand this is is all we'll have time for tonight. Good night darlings and enjoy Via Galactica (and enjoy not being Galt Two-Flops MacDermot in November 1972!)
	8:58pm Bronwyn Bishop: i say that with love of course
	♥ 8:59pm diciassette: Thank you Bronwyn! I am intrigued by Filichia's comment about Via Galactica: "Maybe the checks didn't bounce, but the actors did"
	9:00pm Listener Gregory: That was good fun, BB. Thanks!
	♥ 9:00pm Webhamster Henry: All the hits and all the misses! Thanks Bronwyn!
	♥ 9:01pm WR: oh, and suddenly you are gone. be careful and get home safe and dry. Thank you. Laters all.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Michael Siberry, Rebecca Luker & Sarah Zelle	Edelweiss	The Sound of Music (1998 Broadway Revival Cast)	BMG Entertainment	first produced 1959	Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Unknown Singer and Pianist	It's Tough to Be a Girl	No Album	No Label	first produced 1959	Music & Lyrics: Vernon Duke	0:02:40 (Pop-up)

Richard Burton	I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight	Camelot (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	first produced 1960	Music: Frederick Loewe Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner	0:14:55 (Pop-up)
Lucille Ball, Keith Andes & Wildcat Ensemble	Give A Little Whistle	Wildcat (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	first produced 1960	Music: Cy Coleman Lyrics: Carolyn Leigh	0:17:36 (Pop-up)
Claudette Sutherland, Bonnie Scott & Robert Morse	Been a Long Day	How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	first produced 1961	Music & Lyrics: Frank Loesser	0:19:28 (Pop-up)
Shelley Berman	Revenge "Revenge" by "Shelley Berman"	A Family Affair (Original Cast Album)	Stage Door Records	first produced 1962	Music: John Kander Lyrics: James Goldman & John Kander	0:22:38 (Pop-up)
Clive Revill, Bruce Prochnik & Oliver! Ensemble	You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two	Oliver! (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Deram Records	first produced 1962	Music & Lyrics: Lionel Bart	0:25:32 (Pop-up)
The Nut House Cast	Smiles "Smiles" by "The Nut House Cast"	No Album	No Label	first produced 1963	Music: Mary Rodgers Lyrics: Martin Charnin	0:30:02 (Pop-up)

Walter Matthau	It Takes A Woman "It Takes A Woman" by "Walter Matthau"	Hello, Dolly!	UMG Recordings, Inc.	first produced 1964	Music & Lyrics: Jerry Herman	0:41:12 (Pop-up)
Angela Lansbury & Anyone Can Whistle Ensemble	A Parade in Town	Anyone Can Whistle (Original Broadway Cast)	Masterworks Broadway	first produced 1964	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim	0:43:37 (Pop-up)
Leonard Frey	Miracle of Miracles "Miracle of Miracles" by "Leonard Frey"	Fiddler on the Roof (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)	Capitol/EMI	first produced 1964	Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	0:46:08 (Pop-up)
Lena Horne	Pleasures and Palaces "Pleasures and Palaces" by "Lena Horne"	Pleasures and Palaces/Feeling Good	United Artists Records	first produced 1965	Music & Lyrics: Frank Loesser	0:48:08 (Pop-up)
Irving Jacobson & Gino Conforti	Barber's Song/Golden Helmet	Man of La Mancha	MCA Records	first produced 1965	Music: Mitch Leigh Lyrics: Joe Darion	0:50:14 (Pop-up)
Max Bygraves	Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea	Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea	His Master's Voice	1954	Music & Lyrics: Al Hoffman & Dick Manning	0:55:39 (Pop-up)

Harold Hastings & Cabaret Ensemble	Telephone Song	Cabaret (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	first produced 1966	Music: John Kander Lyrics: Fred Ebb	1:03:39 (Pop-up)
Faith Prince	Lament for Ten Men "Lament for Ten Men" by "Faith Prince"	Breakfast at Tiffany's (World Premiere Cast Recording)	Bruce Yeko	first produced 1966	Music & Lyrics: Bob Merrill	1:05:48 (Pop-up)
James Rado & Hair Ensemble	Where Do I Go?	Hair (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	RCA Victor	first produced 1967	Music: Galt MacDermot Lyrics: Gerome Ragni & James Rado	1:08:38 (Pop-up)
Unknown Singer	I'm Saving Myself for a Soldier	No Album	No Label	first produced 1967	Music: Jerome Coopersmith Lyrics: Martin Charnin	1:11:17 (Pop-up)
Rex Everhart, William Daniels & Ken Howard	The Egg	1776 (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Sony BMG Music Entertainment	first produced 1969	Music & Lyrics: Sherman Edwards	1:13:30 (Pop-up)
Margery Cohen, Loni Ackerman & George Lee Andrews	Song of Me/Today is the First Day of the Rest of My Life/A New Life Coming	Starting Here, Starting Now	Masterworks Broadway	first produced 1968	Music: David Shire Lyrics: Richard Maltby, Jr.	1:17:31 (Pop-up)

Lauren Bacall, Ann Williams & Len Cariou	fasten your seat belts	Applause	ABC Records	first produced 1970	Music: Charles Strouse Lyrics: Lee Adams	1:32:07 (Pop-up)
Helen Gallagher	Where-Has-My-Hubby-Gone Blues	No, No, Nanette (New Broadway Cast Recording)	Sony BMG Music Entertainment	1971 revival	Music: Vincent Youmans Lyrics: Irving Caesar & Otto Harbach	1:34:43 (Pop-up)
Alan Jay Lerner & John Barry	I Must Have Her	Lolita, My Love (Demo)	Footlight	first produced 1971	Music: John Barry Lyrics: Alan Jay Lerner	1:38:03 (Pop-up)
Grease Broadway Cast	Beauty School Dropout	Grease - The Original Broadway Cast Album	Polydor	first produced 1971	Music & Lyrics: Jim Jacobs & Warren Casey	1:41:16 (Pop-up)
Bernadette Peters	I Can Cook, Too	No Album	No Label	1972 revival	Music: Leonard Bernstein Lyrics: Betty Comden & Adolph Green	1:44:23 (Pop-up)

Ben Vereen	Magic to Do "Magic to Do" by "Ben Vereen"	Pippin	The Verve Music Group	first produced 1972	Music & Lyrics: Stephen Schwartz	1:53:13 (Pop-up)
Unknown Singer	Children of the Sun	Via Galactica (Demo)	No Label	first produced 1972	Music: Galt MacDermot Lyrics: Christopher Gore	1:56:08 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	7:01pm Listener Gregory: Good evening, Dear Leader! And all.
	♥ 7:02pm diciassette: Hello!
	7:02pm Listener Gregory: If I choke up singing this, I hope you will come on stage and help me.
	♥ 7:03pm WR: volume seems low, particularly after the stream.
	♥ 7:05pm diciassette: The person who uses the studio beforehand must have a REALLY LOUD source or something
	♥ 7:08pm WR: the mic that is on is not near you!
	♥ 7:10pm WR: i would guess you are talking into the wrong mic.
	♥ 7:11pm diciassette: The person who uses the studio beforehand must either be really tall or really short
	🎭 ♥ 7:12pm TonyR: I guess my speakers are not broken. Brownwyn can hardly be heard over the bed music.
	♥ 7:12pm doctorjazz: Hi folks-having trouble with streaming on the stereo, got the phone playing.
	7:12pm Listener Gregory: I love Paul Desmond, but we need to hear BB! This is a great idea for a show, though.
	7:13pm Bronwyn Bishop: aw man sorry did you guys get the whole spiel about hits and flops of each season or do i need to go through it again?
	🎭 ♥ 7:13pm TonyR: Edgy radio mix!
	♥ 7:13pm diciassette: got it!
	🎭 ♥ 7:15pm TonyR: The title on the playlist explains the concept well, but a few words, maybe. It was really rough hearing you. Just so we know no one is hurting the studio. :)
	7:15pm Listener Gregory: Yes, I heard it. It was like we were rude audience members in a jazz club, trying to be heard over the music. I wish we were!
	♥ 7:15pm WR: music is ok volume now but the off mic break was hard to follow.
	🎭 ♥ 7:16pm TonyR: Gregory, were you _talking_ to your sound system?
	7:16pm Listener Gregory: Yes, as usual.
	7:17pm Listener Gregory: BB, maybe you can explain later how you identify the biggest flop of the year. Multiple shows must close after a night or two. Is it the investment to failure ratio?
	♥ 7:19pm diciassette: I think this the textbook for the class! www.amazon.com...
	7:22pm Listener Gregory: Before I saw the listing, I assumed that "Been a Long Day" was in the flop. Good grief, what a song! (IMHO)
	♥ 7:25pm Webhamster Henry: Sing along with Shelley!
	7:33pm Listener Gregory: Voice level fixed!! Loud now.
	♥ 7:33pm WR: absolutely hear you now.
	♥ 7:33pm Webhamster Henry: super loud right now
	♥ 7:34pm diciassette: not actually loud, just relatively loud
	♥ 7:34pm doctorjazz: Sounds ok on my phone
	♥ 7:35pm Webhamster Henry: Ahh, I had it turned up because of the Nut House audio
	♥ 7:37pm diciassette: I had the blue tooth speaker all the way up for the Nut House!
	7:38pm Listener Gregory: Beautiful version of In a Sentimental Mood in the background. That's not from a musical, though, is it??? Duke Ellington standard.
	♥ 7:39pm diciassette: I think we may get to see Sondheim strike out! (I'm following along with the program)
	♥ 7:40pm diciassette: (a.k.a. the amazon preview)
	♥ 7:43pm Webhamster Henry: There's your whistle.
	♥ 7:45pm diciassette: Angela Lansbury sounds so tall ❤️
	♥ 7:50pm Webhamster Henry: I'm glad you are playing kind of deep cuts from the hits.
	7:51pm Listener Gregory: I read a book about the decline of Hollywood musicals in this period, in which Hello Dolly played a part. The general theme was that The Sound of Music made so much money that every studio made a dozen horrible decisions trying to cash in on the supposed trend. Can't find the book title right now but will work on it.
	7:52pm Listener Gregory: One problem with Hello Dolly was that they agreed not to release the movie while the Broadway show was on, but the show just... Would. Not. Die. The interest on the film financing was disastrous.
	♥ 7:52pm Webhamster Henry: This is reminding me of being on a bus with the rest of the Hartt School of Music Kids Chorus on our way to putting on some show and they were all singing Fiddler tunes and I said "Hey that's last year's hit show.. this year's is Man Of La Mancha".
	🎭 ♥ 7:54pm TonyR: Brownwyn should have a stealth distress signal: like playing something from "Cats".
	🎭 ♥ 7:55pm TonyR: Streisand was too young for Dolly Levi. Matthau and Barbra also at war with each other.
	8:21pm Listener Gregory: If you did not know the musicals in this set, I’m convinced you couldn’t guess which ones were successful from these songs. “The Egg”??? Ha ha ha!
	♥ 8:24pm Ken From Hyde Park: Hiya, Bronwyn & bunch. You heard about efd's recent Sparks spectacular? www.wfmu.org...
	♥ 8:31pm diciassette: They sure wrote a song, didn't they!
	8:32pm Listener Gregory: No need to defend "The Egg," BB. It is a good song that actually advances the plot and ideas of the play. It just doesn't sound like it's from a hit musical. Nor Telephone Song.
	8:32pm Bronwyn Bishop: lollllll
	8:32pm Bronwyn Bishop: EH EH EH EHHHHH
	8:33pm Listener Gregory: That was special.
	8:33pm Parq: I gotta admit, right offhand, I can't think of a showtune that was worse than that.
	8:41pm Listener Gregory: Did he just refer to "a mushroom in the sky"?
	♥ 8:41pm diciassette: This is really bad. I'm clicky-starring it.
	♥ 8:42pm Webhamster Henry: How many wives in was AJL at the time?
	8:45pm Listener Gregory: Again, I would challenge anyone before the musical became a hit to predict that from Beauty School Dropout. Perhaps it all goes to show that the quality of the song is not the only or main determinant of success. It's how all the parts fit together.
	♥ 8:51pm diciassette: I am just now starting feel nostalgic for 1999, me!
	8:54pm Listener Gregory: A later revival of On the Town, in 2014, seems to have been fairly successful. Ran for 368 performances and nominated for a bunch of awards. Of course, the movie disastrously threw out a bunch of Bernstein songs.
	♥ 8:56pm doctorjazz: Such a fun show, thanks, Bronwyn!
	8:58pm Bronwyn Bishop: aaaaand this is is all we'll have time for tonight. Good night darlings and enjoy Via Galactica (and enjoy not being Galt Two-Flops MacDermot in November 1972!)
	8:58pm Bronwyn Bishop: i say that with love of course
	♥ 8:59pm diciassette: Thank you Bronwyn! I am intrigued by Filichia's comment about Via Galactica: "Maybe the checks didn't bounce, but the actors did"
	9:00pm Listener Gregory: That was good fun, BB. Thanks!
	♥ 9:00pm Webhamster Henry: All the hits and all the misses! Thanks Bronwyn!
	♥ 9:01pm WR: oh, and suddenly you are gone. be careful and get home safe and dry. Thank you. Laters all.

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from July 2, 2021

Listener comments!

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