haines his way

05/14/2002:
"EXEMPLARY...BRILLIANT...GENIUS"

Well, dear readers, I shall have to make these here notes short today, I shall have to be succinct and to the point and not blather on ad nauseum. First of all, I have to once again go through my galley because I decided I didn’t like the spacing between sentences and they’ve adjusted it for me, but in so doing the entire layout kind of changes and I have to make certain there are no unseemly widows or orphans or broken hyphens. I hate having broken hyphens, don’t you, dear readers? Right now, I feel like I have a broken back, so bad has that pain in my lower back become. I am now officially an Old Jew and there is nothing to be done about it. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, I am now an Old Jew, much like Lizzie is an Old Maid. I thought it was getting better when I went to bed last night, but when I awoke this morning it was worse. I would say it’s like a consistent dull aching pain but there’s nothing dull about an aching pain. Oh, well, I’m not one to dwell on such things, I simply let a smile be my umbrella, or was it that I let an umbrella be my smile. I can’t remember because of this dull aching pain in my lower back which I’m not going to dwell on.
Your lists yesterday were great, very interesting and intriguing. We’re going to choose a couple at random (in our handy-dandy electronic hat) and do radio shows based on them, and also do phone interviews with the people who made them. Won’t that be fun? Won’t that be too too? I did listen to my very own radio appearance - I do apologize for being so hoarse, but my allergies have been really bad and that's what happens when my allergies are really bad - I get hoarse, which I suppose is better than getting horse. Did anyone notice how many times I used the word "exemplary"? Or "brilliant"? Or "genius"? Or the sentence "One of the best ever"? I need a writer, dear readers. I just kept saying the same thing over and over again until I wanted to rip my eyes out of their very own sockets.
And speaking of our very own electronic hat, we don’t even have to use it today because we only had three guesses in the trivia quiz and only one of them was correct. I’m afraid we must take a poll and you must tell me if you are simply bored by the Unseemly Trivia Contest and if we should drop it. Let me know your thoughts.
We’ll get to the handy-dandy answer in a brief moment, being that these are brief notes. First let me tell you about a couple of new DVDs I watched last night. But first, a word from our sponsor, the Unseemly Button below. In order to bypass a word from our sponsor, let’s quickly click on it now.

The first DVD I watched was a film entitled The Gambler, with James Caan and an excellent supporting cast. It’s quite a good film in the ways that films aren’t these days – it is a wee bit pretentious, but Caan is really good and the dialogue crackles, and the character study of a compulsive gambler is riveting. It’s directed by Karel Reisz, written by James Toback, and features the wonderful Morris Carnovsky and Jacqueline Brookes (as well as Burt Young and Paul Sorvino). The ending is very powerful and not easy to watch. The DVD looks as it should – gritty and grainy. The score, adapted from Mahler, is by the brilliant Jerry Fielding.
I then watched Mr. Louis Malle’s Atlantic City. I remember adoring it when it came out in 1980, but for some reason I had trouble working up enthusiasm to rewatch it last night. But I’m happy to report that the film remains an utter delight, with a great great great (that is three greats) performance by Burt Lancaster, and wonderful work from Susan Sarandon and Kate Reid. If you’ve never seen it, you are in for a real treat. It’s very quirky script is by John Guare, and Mr. Malle’s direction is terrific. Robert Goulet even makes an appearance. The DVD looks amazing, in fact the film looks better on DVD than in the theaters. To watch Mr. Lancaster in this film is to get an instant lesson in what great film acting is all about. There is so much going on behind his eyes, in his pauses, well, it’s actually breathtaking. The strange non-score is by Michel Legrand.
Well I shall keep you in suspense no longer. It’s time to reveal the answer to our Unseemly Trivia Contest question. If you recall, the original question that I posed had its answer inadvertently posted to the site, so I had to run and come up with another very quickly indeed, and I suppose I’m rather proud of this one, since it stumped practically everyone, even with a major clue which I told you you could find in Sunday’s notes or posts. The question was:
What musical spawned a major television star, a multiple Academy Award nominee. and a beast. And what traumatic and life-changing event happened to certain members of the creative team?
Name the musical, the major television star, the multiple Academy Award nominee, and the beast. And name the certain members of the creative team and what the life-changing traumatic event was that befell them.
Only our very own Steve Gurey got the correct answers, which are:
The musical: The Rothschilds
The major television star: Hal Linden
The multiple Academy Award nominee: Jill Clayburgh
The beast: Robby Benson
The traumatic life-changing event that befell certain members of the creative team: Because of the troubled out-of-town tryouts and disagreements, Bock and Harnick broke up as a team and never wrote together again.
Congratulations to Mr. Gurey, who will be receiving a sparkling prize.
Someone e-mailed Guy Haines with a query about a song, but Guy Haines doesn’t really know from songs so he passed it along to me. The querier mentioned a song about a butler who keeps telling people that some woman is not available. I thought of Miss Otis Regrets, but that’s not it. Here is the latest information she wrote.
Dear Mr. Haines,
Thank you for your prompt reply. The song I am thinking of is not "Miss Otis Regrets." I have thought of a bit more of the lyrics which concern a gentleman arriving at the door of a famous woman (actress?) to see her but the butler informs him that she is busy. There are several encounters of this kind and the butler finally admits that she is busy with pursuits in the "bedroom." That's why I mentioned that the song is a bit "off color." The fellow who used to sing this song (Bill Wright, in La Jolla, Ca, is now deceased----a great loss). I remember him saying the name of the composer but cannot recall the name but he was someone more obscure than Cole Porter or Jerome Kern. The song is funny like "Lydia, the tattooed Lady" and "Give it back to the Indians".
Thank you so much for any continued pursuit of this mystery song.
So, if any of you dear readers have an answer, be sure to e-mail it to me and I shall pass it along.
Well, I must get cracking, I must greet the day and the galley, I must get in the swing of things. Today’s topic of discussion: More lists. I want more lists. We are loving the lists. So, your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to make up a list of twelve favorite things – the topic is yours to choose, and everyone must chime in with a list of some sort, otherwise Mr. Mark Bakalor will come and bitch-slap every last one of you. Rather than do a list right now, I shall do one and post it, as soon as I have finished taking a gander at my galley. And don’t forget, tomorrow is Ask BK Day, so get your excellent questions ready, because I am ready to answer them.

Replies: 38 Unseemly Comments

Howdy Doody, everyone, and also Doody Howdy (a corprophilliac's favorite greeting).
Here is my list of my twelve favorite cast album performances:
Barbara Baxley, She Loves Me OCR
Judy Holliday, Bells are Ringing
Ann Morrison, Merrily OCR
John McMartin, Follies
Bernadette Peters, Sunday ITPWG
Malcom Gets, Merrily revival
Robert Preston, The Music Man
Ethel Merman, Gypsy
Barbara Harris, On a Clear Day
Len Cariou, A Little Night Music
Madeline Kahn, On the 20th Cen.
Martin Short, Little Me revival
:)
Posted by Lolita @ 05/14/2002 10:06 AM PST

Keep the trivia contest! The challenge each week is great.
Posted by steveg @ 05/14/2002 10:07 AM PST

My Vote-
It's a Keeper!!!!
Posted by Arnold M. Brockman @ 05/14/2002 10:09 AM PST

I believe the woman who wrote to you is thinking of "The Butler's Song" from "So Long, 174th Street." It's a man, not a woman, who's busy with every female star in 1930s Hollywood in the fantasy spun by aspiring actor Robert Morse. (The butler was played by George S. Irving.) The song is by Stan Daniels, a one-time writer for the Mary Tyler Moore Show, and it includes every synonym or euphemism for heterosexual intercourse one could easily think of.
Posted by Susan from D.C. @ 05/14/2002 10:10 AM PST

My favorite Broadway musicals that I saw in their original, non-revival productions with their original opening night casts.
1) Fiddler on the Roof
2) Gypsy
3) How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
4) Les Miserables
5) Hello, Dolly!
6) Little Me
7) Mame
8) Funny Girl
9) Sunday in the Park With George
10) Sweeney Todd
11) Follies
12) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Posted by steveg @ 05/14/2002 10:23 AM PST

These are my favorite things:
1. mama cats
2. freshly ground pepper
3. Einstein's cranberry bagels
4. My pretty pasta bowls
5. baby lettuce salads
6. my Corolla
7. live theater
8. Canadian geese
9. Diet Coke
10. thunderstorms
11. really good chocolate
12. road trips with my girls
Posted by Laura @ 05/14/2002 10:48 AM PST

Well, now Mr. Bea Kay, how can I not take up the gauntlet when you ask for any kind of list of favorites:
TWELVE FAVORITE MATHEMATICAL THEOREMS
1. Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem--which shows us absolutely that we can never know everything about anything.
2. Napoleon's Theorem: "On each side of a given (arbitrary) triangle describe an equilateral triangle exterior to the given one, and join the centers of the three thus obtained equilateral triangles. The resulting triangle is also equilateral."
I mean, just the fact that it was Napoleon Bonaparte who discovered it is pretty amazing.
3. Euclid's Fifth Proposition Simply because its traditional nickname is pons asinorum, i.e. the Asses' Bridge.
4. The Chinese Remainder Theorem, because it says something so intricate about numbers that all mathematicians pretend they know it, but they really don't.
5. Fermat's Last Theorem, because Pierre Fermat wrote in the margin of a book "I proved this, but there's not room to write it in the margin", thereby sending thousands of mathematician off on a snipe hunt for hundreds of years while he's chuckling in his coffin, 'cause he never really proved it, and neither could they.
6. The Four-Color Theorem, because it is so simple to state: "Any map can be colored with four colors so that no two bordering countries are the same color", and it took a high-speed computer to prove it.
7. The Pythagorean Theorem, because it's the only one my students know.
8. Fourier's Theorem, because it is essential to the digitalization of music.
9. The Side Approximation Theorem, because it is so damn esoteric that I can't begin to explain it, but my Texas-born professor (who was responsible for it) said to our class in the thickest drawl: "Well, ah think if ya wanta live in three-dimensional space ya oughta know somethin' about it!"
10. "Alexander the Great Did Not Exist, and He Had Six Limbs", because it is proved by Puns and Intimidation in the book Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown.
11. "All Finite Desarguesian Inversive Planes Are Regular", because I proved it for my Ph.D. thesis, although I only have vague memories of it now.
12. The Pudding Theorem, because the proof is in the eating.
Now any one of those would make a terrific musical!
Your turn.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 05/14/2002 10:50 AM PST

Here are my favorite things.
Forever Plaid
all things plaid
Krispy Kreme doughnuts
Jason Graae
Bruce Kimmel (my favorite old Jew)
Evelyn Nesbit
my futon
floop
my saddle shoes
my foster kittens
flamingos
Cherry Coke
fencing
The Pony Espresso
my violin
live theater
road trips
Posted by Sandra @ 05/14/2002 10:52 AM PST

To Bill Orr: Fermat's Theorem has, unbelievably, already been made into a musical--Fermat's Last Tango. Both the CD and DVD of the stage performance are available. Some interesting music in the score, not one of my all-time faves.
Posted by JMK @ 05/14/2002 10:58 AM PST

JMK: Aaaaamazing.
Sandra: What is floop?
Der Kimmel: Oh, no, keep the trivia contests. Maybe a little less intricate. Although your "beast" clue had me arfing with Sandy, once you gave the answer it was totally transparent. The perfect type of puzzle.
Posted by William F. Orr @ 05/14/2002 11:05 AM PST

Here is a (very arbitrary) list of what were, in my opinion, twelve of the very best executed performances in a musical.
1. Robert Lindsay (Me and My Girl)
2. John McMartin (Follies)
3. Elaine Stritch (Company)
4. Robert Preston (I Do! I Do!)
5. Karen Ziemba (Contact - and the national tour of Crazy For You)
6. Burke Moses (Beauty and the Beast - robbed of a Tony nomination because he would have won)
7. Sandy Duncan (Peter Pan)
8. Lucie Arnaz (Seesaw - national tour)
9. Dorothy Loudon (Annie)
10. Marilyn Cooper (Woman of the Year)
11. Michael Rupert (Falsettos)
12. John Raitt (Carousel - early 60s national tour)
Posted by Robert Armin @ 05/14/2002 11:14 AM PST

Keep the trivia contest! Even though I can never answer it, I still love hoping that I'll be able to!
Posted by Lolita @ 05/14/2002 11:31 AM PST

I couldn't get Dear Reader Megan on the phone, but the things I know that she would have put on her list are:
DEAR READER MEGAN'S LIST
her viola
road trips
Aunt Laura's magic bag
Marilyn Monroe
sugar-free sweets
Fuji apples
CD collection--Guy Haines, Jason Graae, and Bruce Ewing
sugar-free cranberry juice
soy nuts
kittens
William F. Orr, floop is a recipe of my own creation. It contains beets, cucumbers, baby corn, chow mein noodles, cheese, and ranch dressing. Mmmmmmmm! I also like slog.
Posted by Sandra @ 05/14/2002 11:39 AM PST

Love the Unseemly Trivia Contest!
Hate spoiler posts!
Posted by Unseemly Trivia Contestant @ 05/14/2002 11:48 AM PST

My 12 favorite Broadway musical female performances:
1) Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl
2) Carol Channing in Hello, Dolly!
3) Angela Lansbury in Mame
4) Ethel Merman in Gypsy
5) Angela Lansbury in Gypsy
6) Judy Holliday in Bells are Ringing
7) Angela Lansbury in Sweeney Todd
8) Julie Andrews in Camelot
9) Gwen Verdon in Sweet Charity
10) Mary Martin in Sound of Music
11) Chita Rivera in Kiss of the Spiderwoman
12) Lauren Bacall in Applause
Posted by steveg @ 05/14/2002 12:28 PM PST

My 12 favorite Broadway musical male performances:
1) Zero Mostel - Fiddler on the Roof
2) Robert Preston - The Music Man
3) Yul Brynner - The King and I (revival)
4) Richard Kiley - Man of LaMancha
5) Sid Caesar - Little Me
6) Zero Mostel - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
7) Mandy Patinkin - Sunday in the Park With George
8) Robert Morse - How to Succeed in Business, etc.
9) Colm Wilkinson - Les Miserables
10) Nathan Lane - The Producers
11) Len Cariou - Sweeney Todd
12) John Raitt - Carousel (NY State Theater Revival)
Posted by steveg @ 05/14/2002 12:33 PM PST

Here a list of my all-time 12 favorite dishes:
01. Corned Beef on Rye with mustard
02. Homemade Lasagna with fresh pasta
03. Breast of Duck, pan-seared with a red wine reduction sauce
04. Chocolate Mousse
05. A salt bagel with whitefish
06. Good NY Pizza (must be able to fold it)
07. A good kasha knish
08. Moules Frite (good ole mussels and fries)
09. Homemade Fried Chicken
10. Sweet Potato Pie
11. Risotto with Barola wine, beef and sage
12. Homemade Saffron Bread
Posted by Mattso @ 05/14/2002 01:06 PM PST

CONGRATS TO JASON GRAAE
who has joined the cast of the upcoming Hollywood Bowl concert version of The Music Man as Marcellus Washburn! (the two leads to be played by Eric McCormick and Kristin Chenoweth)
Just had to mention it!
Posted by Craig @ 05/14/2002 01:11 PM PST

My twelve favorite musical theater performances that I've seen:
Robert Weede: The Most Happy Fella
Tammy Grimes: The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Carol Channing: Hello, Dolly!
Joel Grey: Stop the World - I Want to Get Off
Donna McKechnie: A Chorus Line
Dorothy Collins: Follies
William Daniels: 1776
Len Cariou: Sweeney Todd
Angela Lansbury: Sweeney Todd
Chita Rivera & Gwen Verdon:Chicago
Robert Morse: Sugar
Herschel Bernardi: Zorba
Posted by bk @ 05/14/2002 01:34 PM PST

Whoa Bruce.. you mean it wasn't Peter Palmer in Li'l Abner.. color me shocked (I think that's a bright orange)...
My 12 fav. broadway performances that I have seen live are:
1. Yul Bryner/Gertrude Lawrence - King and I
2. Jim Dale - Barnum
3. Deven May/Kaitlin Hopkins/Kerry Butler - Bat Boy
4. Lea Salonga - Miss Saigon
5. George Hearn - Sweeney Todd
6. Raul Esparza - Tick, Tick..Boom
7. Laura Bell Bundy/Joel Vig - Ruthless
8. Susan Egan - Beauty and the Beast
9. Carol Channing - Hello Dolly
10. Carol Lawrence - I Do, I Do
11. Sally Mayes - She Loves Me
12. Michael Cerveris in both Tommy and Hedwig
Now..for a twist, the top 12 performances I never got to see LIVE but wish I could have:
1. Ethel Merman - Gypsy
2. Peter Palmer - Li'l Abner
3. Len Cariou and Angela Lansbury - Sweeney Todd
4. Gregg Eddelman/James Naughton - City of Angels
5. Skinner/Ripley - Side Show
6. Susan Egan - Cabaret
7. Kerry Butler - Beauty and the Beast
8. Lonny Price - Merrily We Roll Along
9. Rita Gardner - The Fantasticks
10. Julie Andrews - My Fair Lady
11. Zero Mostel - Fidler on the Roof
12. Liz Callaway - Baby
Posted by Craig @ 05/14/2002 02:16 PM PST

12 Shows I wish I could get to see.
Ragtime
Pacific Overtures
Steel Pier
Wise Guys (Gold) with Nathan Lane
Zorba
Fiorello
Whistle Down The Wind
70 Girls 70
Tenderloin
Once on This Island
Dear World
110 In The Shade
Please keep the Trivia. Too difficult for me and I don't have enough resources to check but I love the idea and it gets me to think about other shows and artists.
Posted by Tom from OZ @ 05/14/2002 02:30 PM PST

I really like the two movies you mentioned. And how about the disturbing " The Gambler". The gambling stuff is right on, and the ending is shocking. I kind of miss those late sixties early seventies endings where the movie takes a quick twist and suddenly it is over (usually in freeze frame ala The French Connection). Another movie to see along the same lines is Harvey Keitel's "Bad Lieutenant" (sp?), which is an 80s film, I believe, and very dark and certainly not for the kiddies, but muy disturbing.
Posted by Dave in the Valley... @ 05/14/2002 02:34 PM PST

I really don’t like it when the dog bites, the bee stings or I’m feeling sad, so these are a few— well, twelve, of my favorite things. [Daffodils, green meadows, and skies full of stars are nice, but not really among my top-twelve favorite.]
1. Raindrops on roses
—not on any other flower or anything else
2. Whiskers on kittens
—no moustaches, only whiskers, and not on other animals
3. Bright copper kettles
—no dull metals and, please, a proper kettle, not a pot or a pan
4. Warm, woolen mittens
—not cotton, not synthetic, and definitely not gloves
5. Brown-paper packages tied up with strings
—no with wire ever!
6. Cream-colored ponies
—only cream-colored, others hurt my eyes
7. Crisp apple strudel
—pastry has to be streusel with apple—pears and other fruits will not do—and I hate soggy pastry
8. Door bells
—just door bells—no, also
Sleigh bells
—O.K., doorbells and sleigh bells, but no other bells, no dumb bells, etc.
9. Schnitzel with noodles
—not wiener schnitzel, just plain schnitzel, but it must have noodles—without noodles it’s not real schnitzel
10. Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
—only wild ones and never carrying any other satellite
11. Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
—sorry, boys and boys-who-will-be-girls, only girls and just white dresses, no cream, no ecru, no “natural” or “bone,” and they must be the ones with blue—not navy, not lavender—satin—not silk, not linen—sashes
12. Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
—snowflakes are great, but not on the ground and not on other body parts—well, not just snowflakes, but
Silver white winters that melt into springs
—I hate dull gray winters that melt into summer or autumn, so just the silver white ones, and no winters that don’t melt, because they are unseemly
Posted by Maria Mensch @ 05/14/2002 03:46 PM PST

Keep the Triva Contest. Pleeeeeease. Just because we don't submit answers doesn't mean we don't spend hours trying to find answers to submit.
Posted by Mark L. @ 05/14/2002 04:49 PM PST

The trivia contest must stay!!! It was always one of my favorite parts of the Real A's column, and I've greatly enjoyed it here as well. If I have any complaint about recent trivia questions, it has been the 6-part, 10-part, or other-ridiculously-high-numbers-of-parts answers to them. But that is but a tiny, miniscule, wee, insignificant little issue that may not bug anyone else around here.
Posted by Jed @ 05/14/2002 05:32 PM PST

Jed, I hope you are not suggesting the Unseemly Trivia Contest should depart.
Posted by freedunit @ 05/14/2002 06:04 PM PST

Favorite Tongue-Twisting Showtunes:
1. 'Erbie Fitch's Twitch (Redhead)
2. The Simpson Sisters (Redhead)
3. The Rhythm of Life (Sweet Charity)
4. Pick-a-Little, Talk-a-Little (The Music Man)
5. Chop Suey (Flower Drum Song)
6. You Could Drive a Person Crazy (Company)
7. Another Hundred People (Company)
8. You've Got to Pick a Pocket or Two (Oliver)
9. Mr. Goldstone (Gypsy)
10. Tschaikowsky (Lady in the Dark)
11 & 12 Need two more. Any of you have suggestions?
Posted by Donna @ 05/14/2002 07:03 PM PST

My 12 favorite things:
1)Raindrops on Roses
2)Whiskers on kittens
3)Bright copper kettles
4)Warm woolen mittens
5)Brown paper packages tied up with string
6)Cream-colored ponies and crisp apple strudle
7) Doorbells and sleighbells
8) Scnitzel with noodles
9)Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
10)Girls in white dress with blue satin sashes
11) Snowflakes that stay on my noses and eyelashes
12) Silver-white winters that melt into spring
Posted by Maria Rainer @ 05/14/2002 07:24 PM PST

Donna-
How about The Museum Song from Barnum
and All For The Best from Godspell?
Posted by Craig @ 05/14/2002 07:26 PM PST

Songs that Didn't make my Top 12, but almost did.
(In alphabetical order)
Home (The Wiz)
I Got Love (Purlie)
If You Believe (The Wiz)
Move On (Sunday In the Park With George)
One More Walk Around the Garden (Carmelina)
Quiet Thing (Flora the Red Menace)
Someone In A Tree (Pacific Overture)
The Story Goes On (Baby)
Take Care of This House (1600 Pennsylvannia Avenue)
West End Avenue (The Magic Show)
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 05/14/2002 07:39 PM PST

I heard that the Mayor's office of NYC is making URINETOWN change their name to The Wiz.
Posted by Michael Shayne @ 05/14/2002 07:41 PM PST

Donna-
Do Gilbert and Sullivan count as showtunes? If so, there are quite a few good tongue-twisters among their work.
Posted by Hapgood @ 05/14/2002 07:41 PM PST

Donna,
"Not Getting Married" (Company)
"Please Hello" (Pacific Overtures), especially the British Ambassador's part (which is not out of Troilus and Cressida.)
"Piano Lesson" (The Music Man)
Posted by William F. Orr @ 05/14/2002 08:06 PM PST

freedunit - I most certainly was not suggesting that the Unseemly Trivia Contest should depart! If you'll notice, the first line of my post was, in fact, "The trivia contest must stay!!!" I was merely throwing out a possibility as to why some of us may not have been so active in submitting guesses lately, nothing more.
Posted by Jed @ 05/14/2002 08:09 PM PST

...These are a few of my favorite things (in the order in which they came to mind):
fettucini alfredo
showtunes
old Jews
cotton underpants
notebooks
card games
scrabble
old movies
novels
bread
libraries
headphones, blankets, and internet radio shows in combination.
Posted by Lolita @ 05/14/2002 08:32 PM PST

The 12 things I wish I had invented:
1. the plastic wrap at the end of a shoelace
2. the song "Happy Birthday" or "Star Spangled Banner"
3. the "compact disc" logo on all cd's
4. the flexi-straw
5. Mr. Potato Head
6. Harry Potter
7. Microsoft or AOL
8. Disneyworld (of course it would be called something else then, wouldn't it?)
9. Chocolate
10. Toilet Paper
11. the Cell Phone
12. Dental Floss
Posted by Craig @ 05/14/2002 09:53 PM PST

Jed, it was a pun...
Posted by freedunit @ 05/14/2002 10:30 PM PST

I didn't get to listen to the show until yesterday (May 14th) so I'm a bit late in posting my list. I have 12 and a cheat. I figure the cheat is permissible since Mr. Kimmel himself uses Pick Yourself Up from Swingtime as the theme to the Broadway Radio Show so I will use a Kern/Fields song from that movie as well
My list in no particular order
Someone in a Tree (PO)
A Weekend in the Country (ALNM)
Simple Little Things (110)
What Would I Do (Falsettoland)
Far From the Home I Love (FOTR)
Meadowlark (BW)
Coffee in a Cardboard Cup (70G70)
What Do I Tell People This Time (Oh, Brother)
A Little Priest (ST)
You're Nothing Without Me (COA)
Make Our Garden Grow (Candide)
I Loved You Once in Silence (Camelot)
and my cheat is
The Way You Look Tonight (the Rogers/Astaire film Swing Time) but it's by Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields who wrote many things for the theatre
Posted by Ben @ 05/15/2002 05:04 AM PST

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