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Re: "Don't Marry Me" and "Have I Got A Girl For You"

2009-07-04T05:07:53Z

Well, actually no. "Marry" (or "Married" in the Sondheim example)
LANDS on the first note (that's where you hear the stress, both
lyrically and musically) and the second syllable of the word goes with
the middle note of the phrase.
Literally not, as the lyrics are written as "whaddaya wanna get
married for?" - which means that the first note contains three and a

Re: Don't you wish TV today was more like this?

2009-07-03T18:33:05Z

For a time Columbia Masterworks repackaged its Original Cast album of
Kate as the authorized record album of this television production. The
liner notes on back were changed to include Julie Wilson et al in the
cast when, of course, they're not heard on the album.
The album jacket design was also updated from familiar harlequinade

Re: We lost another one - Gail Storm

2009-07-03T17:43:54Z

Doubtful. I only remember its being a first-run show in prime time
when that name was used.
For comparison I looked up Bonanza on IMDb and it said in parentheses
that the alternate name Ponderosa was the "rerun title" whereas on the
Gale/Susannah page it does not have such a disclaimer. This little
research is hardly conclusive but it supports my personal memory.

Re: "Don't Marry Me" and "Have I Got A Girl For You"

2009-07-03T12:14:41Z

I'm pretty sure it's just a coincidence. The descending 5-4-3 of the
major scale is extremely common - it's also "see how they run" in
Three Blind Mice - so it's a little like saying "YOUR recipe uses
cornstarch? MY recipe uses cornstarch!" Not a big deal.
In Flower Drum Song, Rodgers frequently plays off two kinds of

"Don't Marry Me" and "Have I Got A Girl For You"

2009-07-03T11:17:32Z

Flower Drum Song's "Don't Marry Me" and Company's "Have I Got A Girl
For You" both deliver their core anti-matrimonial messages using the
same three note melody.
Sing "don't marry me" and "what do you want to get married for" from
each show and you're following the the same three notes, with roughly

Re: This is the stuff not seen on TV during the Tony's

2009-07-02T13:00:08Z

I don't know how you missed hearing about it from him after the show.
He really dragged it out as long as he could get anyone to listen. Of
course he never mentions the fact that he was at the rehearsal that
morning and knew the piece was coming down. You'll notice on the
clips that every member of the band moved back - except him.

Re: We lost another one - Gail Storm

2009-07-02T07:59:40Z

.
As I understand it, during its network run, the show was called "The
Gale Storm Show". The title was changed to "Oh, Susanna" when the
series went into syndication.

Re: Sit Down, They're Closing the Show

2009-07-02T01:22:58Z

I don't think it helped any, but I don't think it hurt either - it had
been limping at the box office for quite a while, and the only thing
that would have turned it around, probably, would have been winning
the Best Musical Revival Tony, which was never going to happen.

Re: This is the stuff not seen on TV during the Tony's

2009-07-02T01:06:17Z

Bret Michaels of the glam group Poison. Don't know how you missed it --
it was all over the intertubez for days.

Re: This is the stuff not seen on TV during the Tony's

2009-07-02T00:56:48Z

What about the guy who ran into the descending cyc and got knocked
backward at the end of onr number? Did anyone find out how he was? It
was never mentioned during broadcast that I noticed.

Re: Sit Down, They're Closing the Show

2009-07-02T00:50:29Z

You think that Sit Down performance on the Tonys broadcast hastened
the final death rattle?
Or should I say: You doubt it?

Re: Who remembers Gino Conforti?

2009-07-02T00:45:07Z

TV audiences surely remember the commercial where he was a circus
performer. "In my line of work I gotta have soft-a clothes!" Shelley
Morrison as his wife says "Don't worry Luigi your clothes will be
soft!" End of commercial he high-dives into a tank of clean clothes.
"That's-a soft!"
("Taps" plays softly in background)

Re: What is the worst musical number ever committed to film?.004

2009-07-02T00:34:37Z

Far and away the Living Together, Working Together number from Lost
Investment -- er, I mean Lost Horizon. Wake me when it's over.
If they ever do a DVD release I hope it includes the outtake of the
"fertility dance" which Medved/Dreyfus in their Fifty Worst Movies
book described as "bikini-clad musclemen dancing ring-around-the-

Re: We lost another one - Gail Storm

2009-07-02T00:22:53Z

There was a documentary about early Rock 'n' Roll that used an old
"soundie" short of Gale's singing Papa Won't You Dance With Me? from
High-Button Shoes in order to make a statement ridiculing middle-of-
the-road music before R+R. She was perfect! on key and in character
the whole time. Think that documentary threw away the babe with the

Re: We lost another one - Gail Storm

2009-07-02T00:09:24Z

In case the above citing is not clear, Oh Susannah! and The Gale Storm
Show are alternate names for the same program -- at the same time, as
opposed to changing its name during the run.
When Gale Storm (Josephine Owaissa Cottle) was the Mystery Guest on
What's My Line? Arlene Francis asked "Is your name also the name of