$100.00 is an f.c.c. Licensed radio station operated by the University of the Ozarks Clarksville Arkansas. Sure. Hello and welcome to the great Broadway musical hour I'm your host Pat Farmer thank you for joining us for the next 60 minutes as we explore and celebrate all things Broadway musical The theme of today's shows is Pat farmer's favorites I was in the mood to since it's the last show of the academic year I was in the mood to listen to things that I wanted to hear. When I taught speech I always told students that if you pick a topic you're interested in we too will be interested in it so I thought I'm just going to play songs that I particularly enjoy it maybe the artist maybe the composer the lyrics or a melody but there's something about it that makes the song very very special to me we're going to start with a song from Sweet Charity the original production and what was a 1900 mid 1960 s. With Quinn Verdun starring as charity directed by Bob Fossey you know one reason I picked this picked a song from sweet charities because of the f. X. Series that's on right now called Fasi Verdun I don't get f.x. But I have friends who do and they were recording it for me and I'm going to have a Fossey Verdun binge some time here and the next 3 or 4 weeks as I go over to their house to watch it since they so kindly recorded it for me. The book for this was written by Neil Simon the music is by psycho men lyrics by Dorothy Fields and the song I've picked is rhythm of life takes place in Act 2 a charity and Oscar her newly found very decent boyfriend. Decide to. This is a new age church in one of the more remote areas of Manhattan the song is rhythm of life and it is from Sweet Charity. That he started out in San Francisco to trump it allowed me suddenly our voice said Go forth to spread the. Wider story and the voice said that it is a. Great . Life and I was. Putting your fingers and your rhythm in your rhythm and the street just like the power and. The. Rhythm and you're. Listening. To. Me. The. Cat is spread the gospel in Milwaukee walking talking to Rocky Ridge really trying to Scranton till the land. To. Lots of its mission congregation the cuts. With. The bottom of the telescope. I. Look. Ok. The killings and to say that he wakes up and to. The buildings and. Take it. To. Take That's not to. Say. I. Was. Ok. With. The way. To go. Is a powerboat with your pictures that take your colleagues. In the street. It's up. To. The State. To. 1 take. It. The rhythm of life from Sweet Charity you know I am intrigued by Broadway orchestrations and when the things I love about that number is the use of the temp any as as the music builds and as they get to the part that says hit the floor and crawl to daddy and that temp and he hits it every time boom hit the floor red and call to Daddy orchestrations sounds of musical instruments the orchestrator can create any kind of mood that she or he wants in their selection of instruments to and large and enhance the music I also love this number because it's slightly it's a few gets like Baroque music and I particularly enjoy all the baroque fugue besides that number just gets my blood pump and. Tap my feet it's just one of those wonderful songs as many Broadway songs do that can change and alter your mood. I've never played the next song on the air before I find myself humming it every so often and I decided well it's high time to play this number on the great Broadway musical our it's a song from the show called Carnival and many people don't know Carnival anymore but if you've ever seen the m.g.m. Movie a little early with Leslie Carone it's the same story it's about a way for who attaches herself to a car a touring Carnival and she falls in love with the puppeteer but the puppeteer can only communicate through his puppets and it's so sweet and when some love story with a very sweet and when some song. That was the top 40 song that came from the show when it previewed when it opened in the early 1960 s. . The performers Anna-Maria Albert Gaffney. She was an attack. Opera singer discovered at a very young age made a film debut playing a blind or friend in World War 2 post World War 2 Paris was a movie with being crossed but here she is singing the lovely and some pole love makes the world go round. Us. Her. Mates. Were. Seen. To not see. Her as some. Would. See her. Forward. Yes. Love makes the world go round from Carnival Wasn't that a lovely simple little melody and so. Expertly performed by Anna Maria Alberg atty just lie and delicate soothing to your soul and it's unusual for Broadway song to only be 90 seconds long but if a song says what it needs to say in its in 90 seconds that's as long as the song needs to be. The music and lyrics for Carnival were written by Bob Merrill and he wrote the lyrics for funny girl Julie Styne wrote the music for funny girl but Bob Meryl is the one who wrote the words people people who need people are the luckiest people in the world you are listening to the great Broadway musical hour I'm your host Pat Farmer we broadcast from the studios on the campus of the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville Arkansas law k. You Ozy 102.5 f m. There was a musical version of the Bridges of Madison County on Broadway about 5 years ago it you know I never read the book I saw the movie and thought. It's Ok but Jason Robert Brown decided to musical. And one of the biggest regrets in my life it is I had a ticket to that show and they closed it about 5 days before my performance now I got my money back I got a refund but I sure would have liked to have seen this this performance the score is breathtaking it is performed expertly by Kelly O'Hara as the a talian immigrant wife and the photographer the role that Clint Eastwood plays in the film was played by Robert Pascal. Primarily was known as. Television actor he was on the series Rescue Me which I never saw and I saw him in a Neil La Bute play one time and I saw him in a couple of other plays but I have never heard him saying and most people didn't know while he was on this t.v. Series that he has this incredible Broadway leading man baritone and it's one of my most favorite romantic ballads is the ballad I don't know it's more of a commentary I guess and it's called it all fades away from Bridges of Madison County there was thing in the does. It was place. And a child in a village. There are places that are. And so many things. But here. I was shining down on a mountain. I was burning the sun. I was trying with I'm a newsman dearth of e 2. I was capturing them oh man put more in all this shit into. A little bit. Of wizard Mean. Stephen to school all singing it all fades away from the Bridges of Madison County. I wish somebody would write a Broadway show for Stephen Pasqual to be the leading man leading man leading men baritones are so hard to find and somebody with that kind of voice and that kind of talent and experience it would be thrilling to see him perform one of the classic may male baritone roles from Broadway musicals or indeed if somebody would write a new one for him would be a thrilling thing. We're going to change gears here a minute and a feature a song by Jerry Herman who wrote Hello Dolly and Mame and off. He had a big Broadway flop with a musical called Mack and Maybole about Mack Sennett who was the king of slapstick comedy and silent highly Hollywood he did the Keystone Kops and Mabel Normand always get Mabel's confused but was his muse and discovery and the original production in I guess the seventy's was not a success I heard a song on Sirius x.m. Radio one day called. Look what happened to Mabel and that's the song we're going to sing but it was sung by Andrea McArdle Now there was a review of Jerry Herman songs 2025 years ago called Jerry's girls and Andrea McArdle saying this in the show and that was recorded and it was the 1st time I'd heard it but Bernard it Peters was the original singer. And a little more about that in a minute but I want to say one more thing about Andrea McArdle Andrea McArdle was the original Annie in in Annie and if you hear the original cast recording she's the one who's belting out tomorrow now. I think that opened in 1977 and I had to fasten my seat belt the other day when I realized Andrea McArdle is now a grandmother she still performs she's on playbill cruises a lot and the name that she hates being called now is Grammy Annie so. We're going to go to burn a dead Peters recording of this song It starts with a verse and it's a little behind graphical song about Maybole and it's called Look what's happened to Maybole. To learn that you are out of your. Wave trees why bush fire home 7 you're aware you're very very hard for her. She would tell that she stamped on relief. She was pulling a little. Kid from a really. Well 2 God look was. A problem. While I'm still beat and needed some and pretty special and was b.l.t. Down is the tallest as a man and merely a jealous of what I am and our man a bob and 3 tester friends was this and that she. Is smart and look to your list. And that the camera man but this is ridiculous Halliburton and I'll just love it when she plays the lead that a little bit well not so. Subtle as plain old stuff and honestly to follow in the delicate little political is a little steep not quite helpless. Certainly a typical that I could just turn it on down to just that I'm a down the wall rebel credibility. A little louder until next time. Really nailed. It. But. I know I have this is a good one tables in commission will say that a way says I know exactly what I think I'm dumb enough heart and soul and a. Number. Was. That the. I'm wrong. That. Cut that hollowed out the 23 Not that that was. The time that. Was. Was. Look what happened to Mabel from makin Mabel perform by Bernadotte Peters you know that song is a textbook example of how to build excitement during a Broadway song noticed that it started very quietly and very slowly and bit by bit it sped up and got faster and faster and we even had a key change and as you're sitting in the theater in for me even as I'm sitting in my car or cleaning my kitchen if I'm listening to the song it effects the the rate of your heart it makes sure were toes start tapping it. It builds excitement and it's the same melody but it's just performed faster and faster and also has amazing orchestrations. I love a tower as starts building they'll be an. No from the trombone bottom and then the next when it's more full throated. Doing this show has really caused me to pay. Great attention to Broadway orchestrations it's one of the ways that the creators are able to manipulate our emotions as we sit in the theater I hope I'm able to elicit some and manipulate some of your emotions as you listen to this the songs on the great Broadway musical hour I'm your host Pat Farmer this is k. U.s.c. 100.5 f.m. We broadcast from the studios on the campus of the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville Arkansas. We're going to jump forward to Hello my guests ran to opened and what 199-8999 it's still considered a relatively new musical written by Jonathan Larson music and lyrics and of course . He has become legendary not only because of his talent but because the day of the 1st off Broadway performance before it moved to Broadway he died in his mid thirty's of an aneurism we will never know what other delights we missed because of the early death of somebody as talented as Jonathan Larsen rent of course is based on Puccini's La Belle lamb in Puccini's version they are bohemian artist who live in garrets in Paris and the late 19th century. And Jonathan Larson's version they are bohemian artist. Living in. Squalor in Alphabet City on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and the character of Mimi in La Bohem is also Mimi in rent and she was played by Daphne Ruben v a Vega I'm sorry and it's one of my favorite songs from Rent it's. Up be. Get your move in if you listen to it so here from rant is Take Me or Leave Me. Everything. I walk down the street. I hear people say. To me ever since. That day but I can. Still Be silent and still. Sometimes I'm glad that I'm going. To. Take it maybe. You. Can see 1st. Look. Now let's. See you. Sell me my way to. The best. Man. Let. Me. Tell you. What you can do you wanna. Leave me a little bit. It was. Right above me. To. Get one heart. I had missed one. 7 out of. 3. Take me or leave me from rant you know as you compare that with the previous song Look what happened to Mabel we see how Broadway has grown and changed we still have shows with traditional 32 bar melodies but Jonathan Larson and other young composers took the format to that they love so much and blew it all up and reassembled it that kind of sound that we heard at the end of the 20th century in Broadway musicals was something that in the 1930 s. And 1940 s. Composers like Richard Rodgers and George Gershwin and Burton Lane and Frederick Lowe never would have thought that the form and the format would have been developed and changed as much as it had as much as it has That's why I love seeing traditional musicals and new musicals to see how the form can be stretched and. Reinterpreted for each modern age you're listening to the great Broadway musical hour on k.u.n.c. $100.00 f.m. And now a word from the Whitsun Morgan Motor Company. They USA is supported and wired by Whitsitt Morgan Motor Company which in Morgan is blue oval certified and has Ford Mercury and dodge franchises all on one lot since 1955 wits and Morgan Motor Company I weigh 103 South and I 40 exit 58 Clarksville. What's in Morgan Motor Company long time supporters of the University of the Ozarks and we especially appreciate their sponsorship of programming here on k. U.s.c. 100.5 f m. My next selection is not a song it is an over tour it. 99 percent of Broadway musicals begin with an overture and traditionally the overture has been arranged by the orchestrator and orchestrator pick several of the different melodies from the show and puts them all together and it serves 2 purposes it prepares the audience emotionally and. Well I guess emotionally is the word for the show and it also buys an extra 2 or 3 minutes for late comers to get to their seats before the show starts so they don't interrupt the performance there's nothing more irritating then being in a Broadway theater and somebody coming in late and you have to stand up in order to give them room to squeeze by to get into their seats and meanwhile you've missed a good 30 seconds of the play drives me crazy of all the Broadway overtures My favorite is Candy written by Leonard Bernstein in the late 1950 s. . The candied is one of my favorite musicals and the overture just has and exuberance and a melodic line that just absolutely thrills me and I've joked with some of my friends and I said as I plan my funeral as I plan my memorial service I want to very last thing to happen before the 1st speaker is to play the over to or to Candy 1st of all it will brighten everybody's mood and 2nd of all it ends with great theatricality and that is exactly what I need for the introduction of music to my funeral so here is the over. To candied. You. The overture from Candy do you know that is one of the shows that have has crossed over from the Broadway world to the classical music world many opera companies have candied in their repertoire and many classical concerts include the over tour as part of their concert for the evening. I love the overture for candied for its melody I love our next song for its lyrics it's a performer and the wit of it's music the song is called Zip it's from Roger Some Hearts musical Pal Joey and the song the song is sung by one of the supporting characters she's a reporter. And she's been asked who her most favorite interviewee has been and although she never mentions Gypsy Rose Lee by name the song is a satire on Gypsy Rose Lee who was an easy asked if she was a stripper and worked in burlesque and her Gammick was that she was an intellectual and this whole song is just a satire on Gypsy Rose Lee sung by the end comparable and late Alang Stritch I'm so thankful I got to see her on stage a couple of times she could just fill an entire theater with her energy and with her spirit so listen for the witty references. That Elaine Stritch sayings as she performs the title the song zip. Was. Out. On. The great. Migrates see. If you want. Was. Her kids. Turn. It on one. Was. Tell me was * never. One of you while you were. In heat. Expulsed some. Of our. It was. Our. Fault. I don't want 7 to see. Those like him from. * Our. Church. But. They. Do all the great Confucius. Himself. Can't fly them. Makes me sick. Elaine Stritch singing Zep one of my favorite lyrics as of all time is I don't care for any Mickey Mouse or Rooney makes me sick is it I mean the the wit of Lauren's heart I don't think will ever be equaled in the Broadway theater you are listening to the great Broadway musical hour I'm your host Pat Farmer we broadcast from the studios on the campus of the University of the Ozarks and Clarksville Arkansas this is k. U.s.c. 100.5 f m. One of my most favorite new Broadway musicals is called Something rotten I've played some songs on it from it here before it's about a playwright deer and Alyssa beaten England named Nick bottom by the way that character name is taken from Midsummer Night's Dream and bottom wants to be a playwright but there's this guy a from Stratford on Avon named William Shakespeare who is just sucking up all the energy so bottom decides what he's got to do is write the very 1st musical and he's going to write a musical called omelette Yes which you make with eggs this is the last number of the 1st act from something rotten and one reason I love it is because in the middle of it there is a debate between Nick bottom and between William Shakespeare and Brian d'Arcy James is playing Nick bottom and Christian Borel is playing William Shakespeare he won a Tony for this performance and they do a duel with tap dance so here from something rotten is bottoms going to be on top. No more Mr Rudd none of us no longer That is Nick bottoms and that's my name will be said on a mess with. Was I can see. That kills me good side it's got to be great gonna be great everywhere I go a little. Pale by the way it's gonna be great gonna be great. Fun. Really thinks all the time that. The fairest thing. For. Her. You. Know. Well I know you wouldn't go down without a fight. Thompson may surely drop just I say on my own or here I've thought of protests here on rhyming couplets that is so 15 eighties. Oh yeah. If you want to make it to the top then you're going to have to go through me because on the top is where I live and I will not be giving up that easily so that. Oh man I have been waiting for this moment for so long I'm going to enjoy it when I knock you walk your perch Oh no you won't Oh yes I will oh no you won't oh yes how will I know you won't oh yes how will I know you won't my accomplishments are much more accomplished than yours and your dreams I am the best you can be the best because I have the best I have written 12 pages and each one is a testament to my great seal I am the will and I rotating of the truth and Richard 3 into 2 and 45 and 6 in time trying to guess and damned if I forget. What I have just written the thing that the critics are calling the greatest thing they've ever seen the people are loving it can't get enough of it everyone even including the queen she recently invited me to her castle where she needed me and privately she told me that you're not any good now and you got any good and good and she told me that all of your plays take her vomit and nothing's as good as my do so call but. Wait a minute you really get. Yes I never thought of such I wouldn't mind a little but I can see I have been. Just maybe we could want to see. How the tide has turned let's review what have we learned So you were here but we stopped so this bottom line. You want us to write. I'm not so sure about this little brother so raise a glass to how much the meal was a cult following soft. Bottom's going to be on top from something rotten you know the bottom in that says something about the Queen even like the shadow and of course that was Elizabeth the 1st and interesting Lena if I read on Facebook this morning. The current Queen of England Atlas but the 2nd who just celebrated her 93rd birthday on Sunday her favorite musical is Oklahoma and she was at an event somewhere not too long ago where part of the entertainment was songs from Oklahoma and the reporters. Recorded the reporters reported that she sang along with 2 effort songs so it's nice to know that the Queen of England is a fan of Broadway musicals you are listening to the great Broadway musical hour on k.u.n.c. 100.5 f m m your host Pat Farmer I'm in the studio today with Hannah Brady who is the technician and studio manager I would not be able to do this show without her I am sad that this is our last. Show of the academic year because I've enjoyed working with Hannah so much this year and I had another I had to have 2 more songs I was going to play today but as you per usual I have to cut one because I talk too much I guess. But we had a choice of a song from the band's visit and I was going to end the show with vanilla ice cream from she loves me and Hannah said Oh I would you know I vote for vanilla ice cream Hannah is a soprano Hannah by the way will be in the soprano section tonight at $730.00 and Raymond monger Wilson monger Wilson Memorial Chapel the. Chamber singers spring concert a ploy. Pluribus unum out of many we are one will be performing tonight it's free $730.00 come out and support all these talented students as they sing in the spring concert we will end today show in the last show of this activity academic year with a song from she loves me I mean it's one of my favorite Broadway musicals written by Bach and Harnick just a year before they wrote Fiddler on the roof we are featuring the soprano Laura But Manti and the most recent Broadway revival bonanza He is currently playing allies a dude little on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theater here she is singing the glorious and lovely vanilla ice cream. And the source. Just in our own words was time us of our. Hearts talking. To our enemies will laugh. He loves me. And. Loves her in the mansion the love. This food and little less still a little true love living just love lives. To live life to still. Love just never seems to me it was never ceased it has been the most. Lovely to see love just another day with a sigh. I am so sorry about this that it was a nightmare in every way but together when I would love to say something. I sat there where a. Half a day and never guessing and. That's come. Back to you were. You. 7 looking know do you friend I am still. Ladies and gentlemen we had a cd player go crazy on this that. Is not part of the song at all and you know technical things happen and it's a shame that it happened on the last song of the last show of the academic year but that is the way things go and I see by the clock that we are approaching the last seconds of this hour so with that note no pun intended we will into this. Show of the great Broadway musical hour by saying thank you so much for joining us this year please tell all your friends about it and we will see you again in the fall with the new edition of the great Broadway musical our k.u.n.c. 125 is an f.c.c. 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