Robin, thanks for the info! It also took me a while to realize that the astronaut was the newspaper editor's son.
After the movie ("Spider-Man 2") we all had lunch at Dick's Drive In. We then walked to the Seattle Center and went up the Space Needle! I hadn't been up there in so long...the last time I went, the gift shops were still on the observation deck!
Anyway, after that we went to Tower Records and I bought the CD archy and mehitabel: a back-alley opera, with Carol Channing, Eddie Bracken and David Wayne, which includes "echoes of archy," as well as "carnival of the animals" with noel coward (all the titles on the CD are in lower case). I also got the new recording, Fine and Dandy by Kay Swift and Paul James with Andrea Burns, Mario Cantone, Carolee Carmello, Gavin Creel and Mark Linn-Baker. Those will be in my CD player this weekend!