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Musical theater from off the beaten path. Obscure and unusual show tunes from within the canon and without, flops, failures, and the newest works from up-and-coming artists—plus tried-and-true hits. Also, occasional appearances from songs that are not show tunes (but only if they go really well with show tunes).

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Favoriting December 28, 2021: Straight from Frank Rich's nightmares, it's the theatrical season of 1981!

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Artist Track Album Label Year Comments Images
The Pirates of Penzance Ensemble  With Cat-Like Tread, Upon Our Prey We Steal   Favoriting The Pirates of Penzance  Elektra Entertainment  1981  Music: Arthur Sullivan Lyrics: W.S. Gilbert 
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Pump Boys and Dinettes Ensemble  Highway 57   Favoriting Pump Boys and Dinettes (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  1982  Music & Lyrics: Jim Wann 
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Jane Lapotaire  La Vie En Rose   Favoriting Piaf (bootleg)  No Label  1981  Music: Louiguy Lyrics: Edith Piaf (translated into English by Mack David) 
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Phyllis Hyman  It Don't Mean a Thing   Favoriting Sophisticated Ladies (live recording)  No Label  1989  Music: Duke Ellington Lyrics: Irving Mills 
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Chita Rivera  Well I'm Not   Favoriting Bring Back Birdie (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Original Cast  1981  Music: Charles Strouse Lyrics: Lee Adams 
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Lauren Bacall & Rex Everhart  One of the Boys   Favoriting Woman of the Year (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  1981  Music: John Kander Lyrics: Fred Ebb 
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George S. Irving & Barrie Ingham  Up the Ladder   Favoriting Copperfield (bootleg)  No Label  1981  Music & Lyrics: Al Kasha & Joel Hirschhorn 
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Cats Original London Cast  Prologue: Jellicle Songs for Jellicle Cats   Favoriting Cats (Original London Cast Recording)  Polydor Records  1981  Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Trevor Nunn & Richard Stilgoe 
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Lena Horne  Life Goes On   Favoriting Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music  Qwest Records  1981  Music & Lyrics: Paul Williams & Craig Doerge 
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Stephen Bogardus, Michael Rupert, Chip Zien & Jonathan Kaplan  Four Jews in a Room Bitching   Favoriting March of the Falsettos (Original Cast Recording)  DRG Records  1991  Music & Lyrics: William Finn 
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Nic Rouleau  Say Hello to Harvey   Favoriting Live at 54 Below  No Label  2017  Music & Lyrics: Leslie Bricusse 
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David Byrne  Five Golden Sections   Favoriting The Catherine Wheel  Sire Records  1981  Music: David Byrne 
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How to Eat Like a Child Ensemble  Like a Child   Favoriting No Album  No Label  1981  Music & Lyrics: John Forster   
The Marvelous Land of Oz Ensemble  I'm Your Son   Favoriting The Marvelous Land of Oz (live recording)  No Label  1981  Music: Richard A. Dworsky Lyrics: Gary Briggle   
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Ensemble  Wedding Anthem   Favoriting The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Original Cast Soundtrack)  Jay Productions Ltd.  2000  Music & Lyrics: Stephen Oliver 
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Harry Chapin  Goin' to Atlanta   Favoriting Cotton Patch Gospel  Chapin Music  1982  Music & Lyrics: Harry Chapin   
 
Joe Morton  My World's Comin' Unwrapped   Favoriting Oh Brother! (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Bruce Yeko  2014  Music: Michael Valenti Lyrics: Donald Driver 
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Ann Morrison, Jim Walton & Lonny Price  Old Friends   Favoriting Merrily We Roll Along (Original Broadway Cast Recording)  Masterworks Broadway  1982  Music & Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim 
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Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine & Deborah Burrell  Hard to Say Goodbye, My Love   Favoriting Dreamgirls: Original Broadway Cast Album  Geffen  1982  Music: Henry Krieger Lyrics: Tom Eyen 
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Chip Garnett  Power Comes, Power Goes   Favoriting The Little Prince and the Aviator (audience recording)  No Label  1982  Music: John Barry Lyrics: Don Black 
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Bill Carmichael & Nora Mae Lyng  Pirates of Penzance Sequence   Favoriting Forbidden Broadway - Volume 1  DRG Records  1991  Music: Arthur Sullivan Lyrics: Gerard Alessandrini 
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Original Broadway Cast of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat  Prologue- You Are What You Feel/Jacob and Sons - Medley   Favoriting Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat  capitol records, llc  1982  Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Tim Rice 
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Marti Webb  The Last Man in My Life   Favoriting The Last Man in My Life from Song and Dance  Polydor  1982  Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Don Black   
 
Lee Wilkof & Franc Luz  Now (It's Just the Gas)   Favoriting Little Shop of Horrors  The David Geffen Company  1982  Music: Alan Menken Lyrics: Howard Ashman 
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Barry Manilow  The Kid Inside   Favoriting Showstoppers  Arista Records  1991  Music & Lyrics: Craig Carnelia 
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Listener comments!

Avatar 🎭 ♥ 9:58pm
Listener Gregory:

Oh my God, Bronwyn, what are you doing up this late??
Avatar ♥ 10:00pm
ARB:

Hi kittens!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:02pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Hello Gregory and ARB and welcome to 1981!!!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:02pm
solo mon:

Ohh the opera box, great seats!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:02pm
StringOFperils:

I don't think Cornwall is like this anymore.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:02pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Hi solo mon!!!!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:02pm
WR:

Cat-like tread of pirates? I hear heavy ballistics.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:03pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Hi StringOfPerils and WR!!!!
  10:04pm
Listener Gregory:

This is a fine start to 1981. What could go wrong?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:05pm
StringOFperils:

20 lb.. shot across the port bow?
Avatar ♥ 10:06pm
ARB:

The year of the flopera
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:06pm
solo mon:

I love a flop.
Avatar ♥ 10:07pm
ARB:

Bronwyn, what is the best year for theatre?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:07pm
StringOFperils:

Times Square in 1981 was the show on the way to the theatres
  10:08pm
Listener Gregory:

I don’t think you’re cheating at all on the year. Theater goes in seasons, not calendar years.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:12pm
solo mon:

I wanna see this show so bad hahah!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:13pm
WR:

Me too, soli mon, I love it when they sang, we're here to serve you.
  10:15pm
Listener Gregory:

Strange to hear this thick French accent and then the (weak) English words. Ah, here come the original lyrics!
  10:17pm
Listener Gregory:

OK, this is too fast! (Don’t Mean a Thing)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:19pm
Franco Twinkie:

Hi Bronwyn! This deep dive into 1981 on WFMU has me unsettle in ways I could not have anticipated. Since I know squat about musical theater, I'm hoping for some redemption from the synthesizer gloom everyone seems to be crapping their pants over.
  10:21pm
Andres:

My radio just burst into flames!
  10:23pm
Listener Gregory:

BB, was Bring Back Birdie part of a previous “worst of” show? It seems familiar.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:25pm
solo mon:

Poor Chita Rivera
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:25pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

@ARB: That is a really great question!!! A lot of people say 1964 and it's hard to argue with that
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:26pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

@Gregory: I played that song once, not as part of a "worst of" thing though, it's a pretty good song even though the show flopped
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:27pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Hi Franco and Andres, welcome!!!! Franco, rather than synthesizer gloom I have synthesizer razzle dazzle on offer
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:28pm
solo mon:

How many drag shows in 1981 used this as a number?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:32pm
Franco Twinkie:

Razzle dazzle and razz -a-matazz is something I could use in spades. I'm here for the fireworks! And did you say public urination!?
  10:34pm
Andres:

Slime tutorial. That’s great! My kids don’t teach me useful stuff like that.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:34pm
solo mon:

Give em the old …. Public urination!
  10:36pm
Listener Gregory:

I like when you say “No one asked for” the sequel to Bye-Bye Birdie. I imagine people asking for Cats or the Spider-Man musical.
And I really think you talked about it before… maybe on your best of-worst of series? You are the entire source of my knowledge of musical theater, so anything that I know probably comes from your show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:38pm
solo mon:

I mean Cats is insane, and barely makes sense, so of course its popular.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:39pm
Little Danny:

hi bronwyn hi all!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:40pm
WR:

Has anyone else pondered over the Cats and Logan's Run connection?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:41pm
solo mon:

I see the connection WR. See Also, Midsommer.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:42pm
doctorjazz:

Hi Bronwyn and Tuesday night Jazzers!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:46pm
solo mon:

Yes! Falsettos!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:46pm
doctorjazz:

I remember seeing Cats ages ago, trying to figure out what the hell it was about/for!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:46pm
doctorjazz:

I've done this (the Four Jews part...)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:47pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Hi Little Danny and doctorjazz :D
Avatar ♥ 10:48pm
ARB:

me too docjazz
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:49pm
doctorjazz:

My home COVID test just arrived in the mail today (didn't need to test myself, though we've tested all the rest of my family in the past few days, negative. Just wanted to have it for when I need it, which I'm sure will happen).
  10:50pm
Tusalava:

Oh my! Jonathan Kaplan is my cousin. So odd to be puttering around the house and hear twelve year old him on the radio.
  10:51pm
Listener Gregory:

@doctorj, I waited too late to get one before holiday travel. I’ll have to order one now and wait.
Loved that Lena Horne, btw.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:51pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Oh wow! He's wonderful on that cast album
  10:54pm
Listener Gregory:

Harvey was a Hitchcock film, no? I liked the song.
  10:57pm
Tusalava:

He was later nominated for a Tony for that role, but the thing that really thrilled me was to see him drawn by Al Hirschfeld.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 10:58pm
solo mon:

Dancing junkyard kitties in spandex bodysuits.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:00pm
WR:

Harvey was first a play and then a movie
en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:00pm
solo mon:

I think the Marvin trilogy one of the best. In trousers was especially weird!
  11:01pm
Listener Gregory:

I remember The Catherine Wheel album, which I thought was awesome and surprising from someone I thought of as a pop musician. Haven’t heard it in years, so glad to be reminded of it.
  11:02pm
julie:

I'm late. but I saw woman of the year!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:03pm
WR:

Had not know about Frank Rich, "the butcher of Broadway" before.
en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar ♥ 11:05pm
ARB:

Please tell me this kid was also one of the Annie orphans
  11:06pm
Listener Gregory:

Thanks, @WR. I confused Harvey with The Trouble With Harvey. I remember Harvey as being pretty good. Jimmy Stewart never hurts.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:07pm
Franco Twinkie:

Okay, the Catherine Wheel. This was the record that some people pretended to like more than they really did. When you were flipping albums at someone's house, The Catherine Wheel was always suspiciously underplayed.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:08pm
WR:

I didn't know about The Catherine Wheel at all.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:14pm
Franco Twinkie:

WR, the assumption was that David Bryne's fans would follow him anywhere. They didn't.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:14pm
doctorjazz:

On my speakers, the background/bed music is overwhelming your announcements, Bronwyn
  11:15pm
Listener Gregory:

Any musical that is under 8 hours is not really serious.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:15pm
doctorjazz:

What Franco said-I remember when Wheel came out, had been a big Talking Heads fan, had no interest in The Catherine Wheel (might have been to my detriment, but hey)
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:18pm
doctorjazz:

Gotta take off my tie (long day...)
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:23pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

@Gregory: That's why my musical about Ashman and Menken is 9 hours long
  11:27pm
Listener Gregory:

Franco, I think you’re right about Byrne’s fans, but The C. Wheel was where he began to accumulate his classical and avante-garde cred, continued in his ECM album Music for the Knee Plays (all instrumental) and Brian Eno collaboration.
  11:30pm
Listener Gregory:

Also, songs from Catherine Wheel appeared in Talking Heads concerts, including the Stop Making Sense film (What A Day That Was). Sorry if I am obsessing. It has been a long day.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:33pm
WR:

Were there any musicals other than Cats from 1981 that had some success? I had thought that Wikipedia had list of musicals by year but not finding it.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:34pm
Franco Twinkie:

No worries Gregory, extrapolate. David Byrne was not going to be confined by the constraints of a four piece rock band. His destiny was calling. None the less, his best stuff was the early stuff.
  11:34pm
Listener Gregory:

Yikes!
  11:35pm
Listener Gregory:

Bronwyn, I will gladly wear a mask for 9+ hours for your musical.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:44pm
doctorjazz:

Here's that hit WR was looking for...
Avatar ♥ 11:44pm
ARB:

LOL Doc
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:46pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Whoops- we accidentally got two songs from Joseph for the price of one! I'm super tired guys
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:46pm
WR:

As you said, Dreamgirls has some longevity, probably due to the movie. Joseph... was more of a revival. It had been around since 1971.
  11:47pm
Listener Gregory:

I wore out the Joseph album as a teenager, but this performance has much new material not on that (British?) record.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:47pm
doctorjazz:

Nice to get the two...
  11:50pm
Doug Schulkind:

Thanks for this wonderful show, Bronwyn!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:52pm
StringOFperils:

Thanks, Bronwyn
Avatar ♥ 11:52pm
ARB:

Brownwyn I loved this special, thank you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:53pm
Franco Twinkie:

The temperament of Joseph is so decidedly different than everything else sampled tonight. Did it have a lot of truck with the born again crowd?
Avatar ♥ 11:53pm
ARB:

More year specials, they are fun!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:53pm
doctorjazz:

Thanks, Bronwyn, fun show!
  11:53pm
Listener Gregory:

Tim Rice played Pharaoh on the British recording, I am informed.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:53pm
WR:

It's been an interesting episode Bronwyn! Thank you!
Avatar ♥ 11:54pm
ARB:

I like this one!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:54pm
Franco Twinkie:

I'm a big dunce. You're a good teacher Bronwyn. Thanks.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:55pm
WR:

Saved the best for the last!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:55pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

Don't worry, nothing in the musical I wrote about the guys who wrote this is quite this scary
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:55pm
doctorjazz:

Not much of a lulling us to bed choice, Bronwyn...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:56pm
StringOFperils:

Glad I remembered to water the plants.
  11:57pm
Listener Gregory:

Can’t believe you didn’t end with the line “Death!”
Thanks a lot, BB. Great show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:58pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Thanks for closing out the 1981 calendar, Bronwyn.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:59pm
Franco Twinkie:

Oh, this is where Jack Nicholson gets his teeth yanked out in the original movie?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 11:59pm
Bronwyn Bishop:

thank YOU darlings!!!!! happy new year 1982, i mean 2022!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:00am
Bronwyn Bishop:

@Franco: Yes! That was cut from the stage show, but reinstated in the 1986 film with Bill Murray in the Nicholson role
  12:00am
Listener Gregory:

Barry, we miss you.
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:00am
doctorjazz:

I used to deliver kosher barbecue chicken to Manilow's mom ready back when...
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:01am
WR:

Thank you thank you, muah!
Avatar 🎭 Swag For Life Member ♥ 12:03am
WR:

Cats and Little Shop of Horrors. Good bookends for considering the range of a year.
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