January 23, 2006
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The Daily News
1 So...Tony Franciosa walks into a bar...
2 He was married to the late Shelly Winters, who passed away on January 14.
3 Well, both were members of the Actor's Studio, and both are now in that great Show in the sky.
4 Quite a bar, quite a bar...
5 Did I wake up and hear that Kobe Bryant scored 81 points yesterday? Are the Steelers and the Seahawks REALLY the two best teams in football? Makes the head swim!
6 And we now move on...
7 Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings...
8 Auditions for our Spring Musical go up Wednesday and Thursday after school in the Theatre. It's going to be called My Favorite Things, and it's going to be a musical revue of my favorite musical numbers, but really, it's going to be my mom's favorite songs from musicals.
9 My mom first introduced me to theatre when I was a kid, and always had wonderful music playing in our living room. We had fun singing and listening to all the greats, and I recently decided to ask her what HER favorite songs were.
10 She's bedridden, and so I thought she might get a kick out of choosing the best musical numbers of all time. What she doesn't know is that I want to put a show together, record it, and give it to her as a birthday present in May!
11 So I called and asked her what her favorite songs were, and to e-mail me a list.
12 She responded immediately with a list that she sent to me via snail mail, and I LOVED it! Her list was quite impressive, with songs coming from such grand shows as Bye, Bye Birdie, Cabaret, Camelot, Chicago <her words: "My favorite all time show!", Fiddler, Finian's Rainbow, Godspell, Guys and Dolls, Gypsy, Hair, Hello, Dolly!, The Lion King, Mame, Music Man, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, Rent, Showboat, The Sound of Music, South Pacific, Tommy, and West Side Story.
13 Noticeably missing are shows by Sondheim, as well as by Andrew Lloyd Webber, but still, an impressive list, to be sure!
14 Her liner notes to me were fun! Of Carousel, she said, "What a downer!"
Cats: "Is this that Webber guy?"
Finian's: "Nuff said~" <I was in Finian's Rainbow when I was a Senior, so needless to say, we love it!>
Godspell's Day by Day:"Laura Diaz <a friend> sang that song to death--"
Oliver: "Read the book when I was 10-- ho-hum.."
Phantom of the Opera: "Webber again! Saw the movie when I was a kid. Didn't like it."
Rent: "Wish I was 20 again! I think I'd like this!"
West Side Story: "Story sounds familiar..."
and finally, a note tagged on at the end of her list:
"Buddy, I know this is more than you wanted, but I just had to show off my memory!!!!
Without a computer!"
15 So this one goes out to mom.
16 Peace.
~H~
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Your mom is pretty cool
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