Why I love Rogert Ebert.

On My Fair Lady:

It is unnecessary to summarize the plot or list the songs; if you are not familiar with both, you are culturally illiterate, although in six months I could pass you off as a critic at Cannes, or even a clerk in a good video store, which requires better taste.



(thanks to rmjwell for the link.)

Youthful subversion, continued...

Kevin really loves "Can You Hear The People Sing?" (This isn't really any surprise -- his other favorite show tunes are "Man of La Mancha" and "The Impossible Dream.") This morning he kept asking for me to play it for him.

He also kept asking what it was about, and about the French revolution (and I had to explain that this was not about the French revolution that everyone talks about, which happened in 1789, but a different one in 1848). Then he paused, and thoughtfully said....

"You know, this could apply to our country, as well."

Yesss.

Just as well he likes it so much, because then he doesn't ask why I skip past the prior song on my latest Broadway Mix CD. Which just happens to be "La Vie Boheme." I tell him it has bad words in it, but it's really because I really don't want to have to explain what a dildo is to a nine-year-old.

Current Soundtrack...

The current playlist I'm obsessively listening to:

"Move On" - (Sunday In The Park With George) Mandy Patinkin & Bernadette Peters
"One" - (A Chorus Line) Cast
"La Vie Boheme - I Should Tell You - La Vie Boheme B" Original Broadway Cast
"Do You Hear The People Sing?" - (Les Miserables) Michael Maguire & Cast
"Tonight" - (West Side Story) Larry Kert And Carol Lawrence
"I Go To Rio" - (Boy From Oz) Hugh Jackman & Company
"The Little Things You Do Together" (Elaine Stritch)
"I'll Never Fall In Love Again (Promises, Promises)" Jill O'Hara, Jerry Orbach
"The Music Of The Night" - (Phantom Of The Opera) Michael Crawford
"On Broadway "- (Smokey Joe's Cafe) Adrian Bailey, Frederick B. Owens, Ken Ard, & Victor Trent Cook
"I Wanna Be A Producer" - (The Producers)Matthew Broderick And Ensemble
"Defying Gravity" - (Wicked) Idina Menzel & Kristin Chenoweth
"Comedy Tonight" - (A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum) Zero Mostel & Cast
"I Am What I Am" - (La Cage aux Folles) George Hearn
"Try To Remember" - (The Fantasticks) Jerry Orbach
"Hakuna Matata" - (The Lion King: The Play) Max Casella, Tom Alan Robbins, Scott Irby-Ranniar & Jason Raize
"Camelot"- (Camelot) Richard Burton

Although I mixed the playlist using "shuffle" it now occurs to me that I should have started with "Comedy Tonight" and ended with "Moving On."