WFMU: Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from June 30, 2023

Listener comments!
	🎭 ♥ 6:53pm TonyR: Harnickmania!
	🎭 ♥ 7:02pm WR: A S S !
	♥ 7:02pm Roberto: NOW I'm here for the Shel Harnick tribute.
	♥ 7:03pm Rich in Washington: I love Alice Ghostley!
	♥ 7:03pm Roberto: ↳ Rich in Washington @7:03 She was anything but ghastly.
	♥ 7:04pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hi Tony, WR, Roberto and Rich!!!
	♥ 7:04pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ WR @7:02 W A T?
	🎭 ♥ 7:05pm doctorjazz: Hi Show People! Here for a bit (seeing Ravi Coltrane at Birdland, in the theater district, natch!)
	♥ 7:05pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: ↳ Song: "Boston Beguine" by "Virginia de Luce & Alice Ghos... My parents had this record!
	🎭 ♥ 7:06pm TonyR: Mrs. Garrett!
	♥ 7:07pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "The Shape of Things" by "Charlotte Rae" Charlotte, Sheldon, and my parents were all at Northwestern around the same time.
	7:07pm Robm: hey fellow listeners
	🎭 ♥ 7:08pm Webhamster Henry: People think "The Merry Minuet" is Tom Lehrer, but it's Sheldon Harnick.
	♥ 7:08pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ doctorjazz @7:05 omg so cool!!! have fun!
	♥ 7:09pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hi doctorjazz, Lizzie, Rob and Henry!!!
	🎭 ♥ 7:09pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Sweet Corn Lizzie @7:05 I have this record!
	7:09pm Robm: we just lost the stream
	🎭 ♥ 7:10pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Robm @7:09 [it's ok for me]
	7:10pm Robm: did anyone lose the stream?
	7:10pm Robm: it came back on henry
	7:12pm Robm: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:09 hey bronwyn
	♥ 7:15pm StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "A Relatively Simple Affair" by "Leigh Beery & Mar... Half the fun and twice the responsibilities. Sigh.
	♥ 7:17pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "Golden Harvest" by "Ford Tractors" Dang, I did not know Sheldon wrote for industrial musicals as well. Gotta pay the bills I spoze!
	7:27pm Bob Barth: ok, got to share. I did one in the mid 2000's for Martha Stewart in Vegas for her Scrapbooking company. So it was a pirate themed show singing songs about... you guessed it, scrapbooking! proud, proud moment.
	🎭 ♥ 7:31pm WR: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:04 The title you gave this episode.
	🎭 ♥ 7:33pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "How to Say No to Your Composer" by "Sheldon Harnick" Love this sound of eating on this recording!
	7:34pm Bob Barth: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:33 you can hear the rubber chicken
	🎭 ♥ 7:37pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Little Tin Box" by "Fiorello! Original Broadway C... FIORELLO was the first Broadway musical I saw. It was for my 4th birthday. #broadwaybaby
	♥ 7:38pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ WR @7:31 haha omg
	♥ 7:38pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "Little Tin Box" by "Fiorello! Original Broadway C... There's no mistaking Da Silva's voice.
	♥ 7:39pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:37 aww little henry!!!
	♥ 7:42pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Roberto @7:38 it's so striking to have it missing from the original cast album of 1776, and to have franklin played by Maurice from Beauty and the Beast instead...
	🎭 ♥ 7:43pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Where Do I Go From Here" by "Sheldon Harnick & Je... This really is a good album!
	♥ 7:44pm Roberto: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:42 We've got the film soundtrack for that!
	🎭 ♥ 7:48pm WR: ↳ Song: "I Wonder What It's Like" by "Sheldon Harnick & Je... the phrases sung "in drag" crack me up.
	♥ 7:50pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:43 we've heard from it soooo much on AJH, i am so thankful for it lol
	♥ 7:50pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Roberto @7:44 both are gr8!
	♥ 7:50pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ WR @7:48 it's funny to hear songwriters sing...and even funnier to hear them act
	7:55pm Bob Barth: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:50 yes, see Comden & Green
	♥ 8:00pm Rich in Washington: Thanks, Bronwyn! Hey folks! I'll be spinnin' tunes n' such here right after this show! wfmu.org...
	♥ 8:07pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Rich in Washington @8:00 I still have certain songs from Fiddler stuck in my head. My parents played one of the albums of it often and then we did it in elementary school music class.
	♥ 8:07pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Bob Barth @7:55 love their live show!
	🎭 ♥ 8:15pm Webhamster Henry: Read 170 Years of Show Business for lots of great stories about Zero and Jack Gilford and their talented wives: archive.org...
	♥ 8:16pm Roberto: I saw Zero in an L.A. production of Fiddler, I think right before he died.
	♥ 8:17pm StringOFperils: ↳ Rich in Washington @8:07 This stuff goes back to my childhood too. Oddly, we sang these songs over and over again in R. Catholic grade school, where I was taught to read and sight sing music by Sister Pascal, a very drab little nun in her black and white habit, with a little black and white pitch-pipe she had stashed in a secret holy pocket that she'd whip out to teach us to hear pitch accurately. p.s. I still miss Topol, and Zero
	♥ 8:17pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @8:16 In any case, definitely not right after he died.
	♥ 8:22pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Roberto @8:16 jealous
	♥ 8:22pm Rich in Washington: ↳ StringOFperils @8:17 My mother LOVED musicals. If one was ever on TV we'd be watching.
	♥ 8:25pm StringOFperils: ↳ Rich in Washington @8:22 It was nice when TV was like that. We were fortunate.
	♥ 8:27pm Bronwyn Bishop: i wish they still showed musicals on tv, and also that 60s program we just heard, the american musical theatre!
	♥ 8:29pm Rich in Washington: My favorite musical induced trauma: In grade school we were all doing Mary Poppins in music class, with one of the homeroom classes being picked to perform it in a school assembly. Luckily, my class didn't get picked but on the day of the performance, apparently lots of boys skipped school that day or were otherwise MIA. The teacher from the homeroom who were slated to perform grabbed me while I was trying to find a seat because I was wearing a blue sweater like the ones the singing boys were supposed to wear. I protested, saying I didn't know the songs that well. She said she didn't care. "Get up there and fake it! The riser is nearly empty!" - there were only a couple of boys vs all the girls in same color dresses. I just mouthed the words along with everyone else and shuffled back and forth like the other kids. I'll never get over it.
	♥ 8:30pm StringOFperils: LOL
	♥ 8:32pm Roberto: I'm guessing discussing the Holocaust is no longer legal in Florida :P
	8:34pm Dean: My musical induced trauma: I was already active in high school theater, and I wanted to continue to participate to such an extent that even though I can neither sing nor dance I tried out for Oliver. At the audition one of the marvelous duo of drama instructors at my school laughed when I tried to sing. (And rightly so.) Then and there I knew musicals would not be for me even though I to this day feel I belong on stage doing live theater.
	8:35pm Dean: In fact I'm not a fan of musical theater; rather, I'm a fan of recordings of musical theater.
	🎭 ♥ 8:39pm WR: Happy pre-birthday day Dean.
	♥ 8:40pm StringOFperils: Yes, experiencing Broadway musical theatre performed by companies out in the boondocks can be underwhelming. The magic one longs for is to escape the theatre unnoticed. Professional recordings are great.
	8:40pm Dean: Thank you, WR! Celebration has begun. While we're at it, let's celebrate Debbie Harry and George Sand.
	♥ 8:41pm StringOFperils: Not that you're away from the epicentre or anything in Berkeley.
	♥ 8:42pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @8:32 Broadway musicals have probably also been banned by now.
	🎭 ♥ 8:43pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ StringOFperils @8:40 One of our local schools did a really bang-up professional job presenting musicals! They closed a few years ago, though, and the site is now going to be redeveloped, probably losing the excellent theatre.
	8:43pm Dean: Actually, I contrarily (of course) prefer less revered company performances. Nothing like a good high school, community theater, boondocks, spectacle.
	♥ 8:44pm Bronwyn Bishop: I'm like that with choirs. I prefer less-perfect choral recordings, including amateur ones
	♥ 8:44pm StringOFperils: Stalwart defenders of the art. I like it.
	♥ 8:48pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "He Tossed a Coin" by "Hal Linden, Thomas Trelfa &... Barney Miller! Whose TV wife happened to be portrayed by Sheldon's sister-in-law.
	8:48pm Dean: So right, Bronwyn! I first heard Lauridsen's Chansons de la Rose at a rehearsal of the U Utah student choir in Salt Lake City. It was sublime! Full of folky inflections, both reverential and lyrical. Thereafter a bunch of recordings emerged from big shot choirs, some of which are very good, but nothing like what I heard at that rehearsal and the performance later that day.
	8:50pm Dean: (In library school in LA, late '80s, I worked for a Rothschild. Cataloged his library while I sat under a genuine portrait of Samuel Johnson by Sir Thomas Reynolds.)
	♥ 8:54pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Dean @8:48 oh wow...when i was in HS our school choir did lauridsen's sure on this shining night and we were all obsessed with the u of utah choir's version, they sort of sounded like us but better lol
	♥ 8:54pm Rich in Washington: Wonderful show tonight, Bronwyn! Thanks so much!
	♥ 8:56pm DL in LA: Thanks for this tribute Bronwyn! Learned a lot and it was so much fun.
	♥ 8:57pm StringOFperils: Thanks, Bronwyn.
	♥ 8:58pm Rich in Washington: Hey folks! See you next door after this at The Radio Is Broken! wfmu.org...
	♥ 8:59pm Roberto: This has been a fabulous tribute, Bronwyn. Thanks for putting it together.
	🎭 ♥ 9:00pm WR: Thank you! Bronwyn, and play this track to the end, don't fade it on the hour. I give you permission.
	9:00pm Bob Barth: Great show Bronwyn, thanks
	9:00pm Dean: That is amazing, @Bronwyn! I continue to reflect upon that Tabernacle Square experience. Utterly gorgeous music making by "amateurs."
	♥ 9:02pm Bronwyn Bishop: thank you all for listening darlings!!!!

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from June 30, 2023

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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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June 30, 2023: A Sheldon Show

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Comments	Approx. start time
Virginia de Luce & Alice Ghostley	Boston Beguine	New Faces of 1952 (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Sony Music Entertainment	1952	Music & Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Charlotte Rae	The Shape of Things	Sheldon Harnick: Hidden Treasures (1949-2013)	Harbinger Records	2014	Music & Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	0:04:43 (Pop-up)
The Body Beautiful Ensemble	The Body Beautiful	The Body Beautiful	Original Cast	2008	Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	0:09:11 (Pop-up)
Leigh Beery & Margery Gray	A Relatively Simple Affair	Sheldon Harnick: Hidden Treasures (1949-2013)	Harbinger Records	2014	Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	0:11:39 (Pop-up)
Ford Tractors	Golden Harvest "Golden Harvest" by "Ford Tractors"	The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals - The 1950s, Vol. 1	Young Sport Records	2013	Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	0:15:02 (Pop-up)

Sheldon Harnick	How to Say No to Your Composer	Speaking at Sardi's	No Label	Unknown		0:32:31 (Pop-up)
Fiorello! Original Broadway Cast	Little Tin Box	Fiorello!	Capitol Records	1959	Music: Sheldon Harnick Lyrics: Jerry Bock	0:35:28 (Pop-up)
Sheldon Harnick & Jerry Bock	Where Do I Go From Here	Sheldon Harnick: Hidden Treasures (1949-2013)	Harbinger Records	2014	Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	0:39:05 (Pop-up)
Eileen Rodgers & Original Broadway Cast of Tenderloin	My Gentle Young Johnny	Tenderloin (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Capitol Records	1960	Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	0:42:57 (Pop-up)
Sheldon Harnick & Jerry Bock	I Wonder What It's Like	Sheldon Harnick: Hidden Treasures (1949-2013)	Harbinger Records	2014	Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	0:45:35 (Pop-up)
Danny Meehan & Claiborne Cary	Two by Two	Sheldon Harnick: Hidden Treasures (1949-2013)	Harbinger Records	2014	Music: David Baker Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	0:49:09 (Pop-up)

Sheldon Harnick	Sheldon Harnick Sings to Barbara Cook	Live at the National Arts Club	No Label	2015	Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	0:59:41 (Pop-up)
Barbara Cook & Barbara Baxley	I Don't Know His Name	She Loves Me (Original Broadway Cast)	MGM Records	1963	Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	1:01:28 (Pop-up)
Sheldon Harnick	A Favorite Memory	interview	No Label	2015		1:03:45 (Pop-up)
Sheldon Harnick & Jerry Bock	Sunrise, Sunset	Sheldon Harnick: Hidden Treasures (1949-2013)	Harbinger Records	2014	Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	1:05:51 (Pop-up)
Sheldon Harnick	The Origin of "If I Were a Rich Man"	Speaking at the Florida Holocaust Museum	No Label	2013		1:08:28 (Pop-up)
Danny Burstein	If I Were a Rich Man	Fiddler on the Roof (2016 Broadway Cast Recording)	Fiddler Broadway LLC	2016	Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	1:11:24 (Pop-up)
Sheldon Harnick & Jerry Bock	A Butcher's Soul	Sheldon Harnick: Hidden Treasures (1949-2013)	Harbinger Records	2014	Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	1:15:22 (Pop-up)
Sheldon Harnick & Jerry Bock	We've Never Missed a Sabbath Yet/Tradition	Live on The American Musical Theatre	No Label	1964	Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	1:19:35 (Pop-up)
Tanya Everett, Joanna Merlin & Julia Migenes	Matchmaker, Matchmaker	Fiddler on the Roof (The Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Masterworks Broadway	1986	Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	1:23:31 (Pop-up)


Alan Alda, The Apple Tree Ensemble	You Are Not Real	The Apple Tree (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Sony BMG	1966	Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	1:37:20 (Pop-up)
Sheldon Harnick & Jerry Bock	What Was That	Sheldon Harnick: Hidden Treasures (1949-2013)	Harbinger Records	2014	Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	1:39:05 (Pop-up)
Leslie Uggams & Her First Roman Ensemble	Ptolemy	Her First Roman (bootleg)	No Label	1968	Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	1:44:02 (Pop-up)
Hal Linden, Thomas Trelfa & Kenneth Bridges	He Tossed a Coin	The Rothschilds: A Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	Sony BMG	1970	Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	1:46:59 (Pop-up)
Rex Ensemble	The Field of Cloth of Gold/Where Is My Son?	Rex (Original Broadway Cast Recording)	BMG Entertainment	1976	Music: Richard Rodgers Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	1:50:45 (Pop-up)

Christopher M. Williams, Curtis Wiley & David Bryant Johnson	Finale: In My Own Lifetime	Rothschild & Sons (Original Off Broadway Cast)	Jay Records	2016	Music: Jerry Bock Lyrics: Sheldon Harnick	2:01:09 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎭 ♥ 6:53pm TonyR: Harnickmania!
	🎭 ♥ 7:02pm WR: A S S !
	♥ 7:02pm Roberto: NOW I'm here for the Shel Harnick tribute.
	♥ 7:03pm Rich in Washington: I love Alice Ghostley!
	♥ 7:03pm Roberto: ↳ Rich in Washington @7:03 She was anything but ghastly.
	♥ 7:04pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hi Tony, WR, Roberto and Rich!!!
	♥ 7:04pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ WR @7:02 W A T?
	🎭 ♥ 7:05pm doctorjazz: Hi Show People! Here for a bit (seeing Ravi Coltrane at Birdland, in the theater district, natch!)
	♥ 7:05pm Sweet Corn Lizzie: ↳ Song: "Boston Beguine" by "Virginia de Luce & Alice Ghos... My parents had this record!
	🎭 ♥ 7:06pm TonyR: Mrs. Garrett!
	♥ 7:07pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "The Shape of Things" by "Charlotte Rae" Charlotte, Sheldon, and my parents were all at Northwestern around the same time.
	7:07pm Robm: hey fellow listeners
	🎭 ♥ 7:08pm Webhamster Henry: People think "The Merry Minuet" is Tom Lehrer, but it's Sheldon Harnick.
	♥ 7:08pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ doctorjazz @7:05 omg so cool!!! have fun!
	♥ 7:09pm Bronwyn Bishop: Hi doctorjazz, Lizzie, Rob and Henry!!!
	🎭 ♥ 7:09pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Sweet Corn Lizzie @7:05 I have this record!
	7:09pm Robm: we just lost the stream
	🎭 ♥ 7:10pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Robm @7:09 [it's ok for me]
	7:10pm Robm: did anyone lose the stream?
	7:10pm Robm: it came back on henry
	7:12pm Robm: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:09 hey bronwyn
	♥ 7:15pm StringOFperils: ↳ Song: "A Relatively Simple Affair" by "Leigh Beery & Mar... Half the fun and twice the responsibilities. Sigh.
	♥ 7:17pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "Golden Harvest" by "Ford Tractors" Dang, I did not know Sheldon wrote for industrial musicals as well. Gotta pay the bills I spoze!
	7:27pm Bob Barth: ok, got to share. I did one in the mid 2000's for Martha Stewart in Vegas for her Scrapbooking company. So it was a pirate themed show singing songs about... you guessed it, scrapbooking! proud, proud moment.
	🎭 ♥ 7:31pm WR: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:04 The title you gave this episode.
	🎭 ♥ 7:33pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "How to Say No to Your Composer" by "Sheldon Harnick" Love this sound of eating on this recording!
	7:34pm Bob Barth: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:33 you can hear the rubber chicken
	🎭 ♥ 7:37pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Little Tin Box" by "Fiorello! Original Broadway C... FIORELLO was the first Broadway musical I saw. It was for my 4th birthday. #broadwaybaby
	♥ 7:38pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ WR @7:31 haha omg
	♥ 7:38pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "Little Tin Box" by "Fiorello! Original Broadway C... There's no mistaking Da Silva's voice.
	♥ 7:39pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:37 aww little henry!!!
	♥ 7:42pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Roberto @7:38 it's so striking to have it missing from the original cast album of 1776, and to have franklin played by Maurice from Beauty and the Beast instead...
	🎭 ♥ 7:43pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ Song: "Where Do I Go From Here" by "Sheldon Harnick & Je... This really is a good album!
	♥ 7:44pm Roberto: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:42 We've got the film soundtrack for that!
	🎭 ♥ 7:48pm WR: ↳ Song: "I Wonder What It's Like" by "Sheldon Harnick & Je... the phrases sung "in drag" crack me up.
	♥ 7:50pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Webhamster Henry @7:43 we've heard from it soooo much on AJH, i am so thankful for it lol
	♥ 7:50pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Roberto @7:44 both are gr8!
	♥ 7:50pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ WR @7:48 it's funny to hear songwriters sing...and even funnier to hear them act
	7:55pm Bob Barth: ↳ Bronwyn Bishop @7:50 yes, see Comden & Green
	♥ 8:00pm Rich in Washington: Thanks, Bronwyn! Hey folks! I'll be spinnin' tunes n' such here right after this show! wfmu.org...
	♥ 8:07pm Rich in Washington: ↳ Rich in Washington @8:00 I still have certain songs from Fiddler stuck in my head. My parents played one of the albums of it often and then we did it in elementary school music class.
	♥ 8:07pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Bob Barth @7:55 love their live show!
	🎭 ♥ 8:15pm Webhamster Henry: Read 170 Years of Show Business for lots of great stories about Zero and Jack Gilford and their talented wives: archive.org...
	♥ 8:16pm Roberto: I saw Zero in an L.A. production of Fiddler, I think right before he died.
	♥ 8:17pm StringOFperils: ↳ Rich in Washington @8:07 This stuff goes back to my childhood too. Oddly, we sang these songs over and over again in R. Catholic grade school, where I was taught to read and sight sing music by Sister Pascal, a very drab little nun in her black and white habit, with a little black and white pitch-pipe she had stashed in a secret holy pocket that she'd whip out to teach us to hear pitch accurately. p.s. I still miss Topol, and Zero
	♥ 8:17pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @8:16 In any case, definitely not right after he died.
	♥ 8:22pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Roberto @8:16 jealous
	♥ 8:22pm Rich in Washington: ↳ StringOFperils @8:17 My mother LOVED musicals. If one was ever on TV we'd be watching.
	♥ 8:25pm StringOFperils: ↳ Rich in Washington @8:22 It was nice when TV was like that. We were fortunate.
	♥ 8:27pm Bronwyn Bishop: i wish they still showed musicals on tv, and also that 60s program we just heard, the american musical theatre!
	♥ 8:29pm Rich in Washington: My favorite musical induced trauma: In grade school we were all doing Mary Poppins in music class, with one of the homeroom classes being picked to perform it in a school assembly. Luckily, my class didn't get picked but on the day of the performance, apparently lots of boys skipped school that day or were otherwise MIA. The teacher from the homeroom who were slated to perform grabbed me while I was trying to find a seat because I was wearing a blue sweater like the ones the singing boys were supposed to wear. I protested, saying I didn't know the songs that well. She said she didn't care. "Get up there and fake it! The riser is nearly empty!" - there were only a couple of boys vs all the girls in same color dresses. I just mouthed the words along with everyone else and shuffled back and forth like the other kids. I'll never get over it.
	♥ 8:30pm StringOFperils: LOL
	♥ 8:32pm Roberto: I'm guessing discussing the Holocaust is no longer legal in Florida :P
	8:34pm Dean: My musical induced trauma: I was already active in high school theater, and I wanted to continue to participate to such an extent that even though I can neither sing nor dance I tried out for Oliver. At the audition one of the marvelous duo of drama instructors at my school laughed when I tried to sing. (And rightly so.) Then and there I knew musicals would not be for me even though I to this day feel I belong on stage doing live theater.
	8:35pm Dean: In fact I'm not a fan of musical theater; rather, I'm a fan of recordings of musical theater.
	🎭 ♥ 8:39pm WR: Happy pre-birthday day Dean.
	♥ 8:40pm StringOFperils: Yes, experiencing Broadway musical theatre performed by companies out in the boondocks can be underwhelming. The magic one longs for is to escape the theatre unnoticed. Professional recordings are great.
	8:40pm Dean: Thank you, WR! Celebration has begun. While we're at it, let's celebrate Debbie Harry and George Sand.
	♥ 8:41pm StringOFperils: Not that you're away from the epicentre or anything in Berkeley.
	♥ 8:42pm Roberto: ↳ Roberto @8:32 Broadway musicals have probably also been banned by now.
	🎭 ♥ 8:43pm Webhamster Henry: ↳ StringOFperils @8:40 One of our local schools did a really bang-up professional job presenting musicals! They closed a few years ago, though, and the site is now going to be redeveloped, probably losing the excellent theatre.
	8:43pm Dean: Actually, I contrarily (of course) prefer less revered company performances. Nothing like a good high school, community theater, boondocks, spectacle.
	♥ 8:44pm Bronwyn Bishop: I'm like that with choirs. I prefer less-perfect choral recordings, including amateur ones
	♥ 8:44pm StringOFperils: Stalwart defenders of the art. I like it.
	♥ 8:48pm Roberto: ↳ Song: "He Tossed a Coin" by "Hal Linden, Thomas Trelfa &... Barney Miller! Whose TV wife happened to be portrayed by Sheldon's sister-in-law.
	8:48pm Dean: So right, Bronwyn! I first heard Lauridsen's Chansons de la Rose at a rehearsal of the U Utah student choir in Salt Lake City. It was sublime! Full of folky inflections, both reverential and lyrical. Thereafter a bunch of recordings emerged from big shot choirs, some of which are very good, but nothing like what I heard at that rehearsal and the performance later that day.
	8:50pm Dean: (In library school in LA, late '80s, I worked for a Rothschild. Cataloged his library while I sat under a genuine portrait of Samuel Johnson by Sir Thomas Reynolds.)
	♥ 8:54pm Bronwyn Bishop: ↳ Dean @8:48 oh wow...when i was in HS our school choir did lauridsen's sure on this shining night and we were all obsessed with the u of utah choir's version, they sort of sounded like us but better lol
	♥ 8:54pm Rich in Washington: Wonderful show tonight, Bronwyn! Thanks so much!
	♥ 8:56pm DL in LA: Thanks for this tribute Bronwyn! Learned a lot and it was so much fun.
	♥ 8:57pm StringOFperils: Thanks, Bronwyn.
	♥ 8:58pm Rich in Washington: Hey folks! See you next door after this at The Radio Is Broken! wfmu.org...
	♥ 8:59pm Roberto: This has been a fabulous tribute, Bronwyn. Thanks for putting it together.
	🎭 ♥ 9:00pm WR: Thank you! Bronwyn, and play this track to the end, don't fade it on the hour. I give you permission.
	9:00pm Bob Barth: Great show Bronwyn, thanks
	9:00pm Dean: That is amazing, @Bronwyn! I continue to reflect upon that Tabernacle Square experience. Utterly gorgeous music making by "amateurs."
	♥ 9:02pm Bronwyn Bishop: thank you all for listening darlings!!!!

Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop: Playlist from June 30, 2023

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