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Bad movie I have Silent Movie 1976

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March  Playlist

[Seems that I forgot to post this one...I think. Or at least I can’t find it....] 

Kiss - Prince

I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance - Black Kids

Otis - JAY-Z, Kanye West, Otis Redding 

Money (That’s What I Want) - The Beatles 

Play the Ponies - Jo Blankenburg

It’s Been a Long, Long Time - Harry James

Fell In Love With a Girl - The White Stripes

What I Like About You - The Romantics

Me, Myself And I - De La Soul 

I’m a Man - Bo Diddley

Big Chief - Professor Longhair

Girl All the Bad Guys Want - Bowling for Soup

Gimme Some More - The J.B.’s

Everybody Needs Somebody- The Blues Brothers 

Get Up Offa That Thing - James Brown 

De Donde Eres? - Brother Strut

The Rhythm of Life - Cy Coleman, Arnold Soboloff, Harold Pierson, Eddie Gasper, Ensemble [Sweet Charity] 

Walking All Day - Graham Coxon 

Adore You - Harry Styles 

Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons

Tabú - Lecuona Cuban Boys 

I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) - Whitney Houston 

My Generation - The Who

Welcome to the Jungle - Aaradhna

Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel 

Kiwi - Harry Styles 

In the Heights - Lin-Manuel Miranda [In the Heights] 

Sugar Daddy - Neil Patrick Harris [Hedwig and the Angry Inch] 

Proud Mary - Tina Turner

You and I - Lady Gaga 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4WtD7MYbD8xQ7P6M5nih47?si=Mg5iWoQITAyw63PVwn1wkA

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TV Show: Space Academy

Episode: "Monkey Business" (7/15)

Cast:

Jonathan Harris as Commander Isaac Gampu

Ric Carrot as Chris Gentry

Pamelyn Ferdin as Laura Gentry

Ric Carrot as Chris Gentry

Maggie Cooper as Adrian Pryce-Jones

Brian Tochi as Tee Gar Soom

Ty Henderson as Paul Jerome

Eric Greene as Loki

Peepo as Himself

Special guest star: Arnold S. Soboloff as Professor Jasper Bolt

Original Airdate: October 22, 1977

Network: CBS

Written by: Marianne Monser (story) and Jack Paritz (teleplay)

Directed by: Jeffrey Hayden

Music by: Yvette Blais and Jeff Michael

Producer: Arthur H. Nadel

Created by: Allen Ducovny

Presented by: Filmation

Executive Producers: Norm Prescott and Lou Scheimer

While Professor Adrian experiments on telepathic communication with a chimpanzee named Jake, the Academy received a distress call from Alturos.

Cadet Tee Gar and Professor Bolt are in a dangerous situation. A team was sent to Specula to repair a mirror satellite.

To make the situation more complex, Loki and Jake get in to the Seeker as stowaways.

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The Act

What could go wrong with Liza Minnelli in a star vehicle role? Hopefully nothing? I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. Here’s The Act.

Background Info

I know absolutely nothing about this show other than that it stars Liza Minnelli, so this should be a fun ride. Also, as of right now, I am unable to find a score to follow along with, so that makes it even more fun. Here’s a synopsis I found on Samuel French (which offers performance rights):

Liza Minelli took Broadway by storm in this "concept musical" about a Las Vegas nightclub performer named Michelle Craig, a has been movie star now trying to make a comeback. All the terrific Kander and Ebb songs are sung by Michelle, making this an amazing tour de force for a performer. 

Writers

John Kander and Fred Ebb wrote this musical. They also wrote mega hits such as Chicago, Cabaret, and the ever-performed (by high schools in my hometown area) Curtains. 

Character List

Couldn’t find descriptions, but here are the characters.

MICHELLE CRAIG (Mezzo-Soprano) 

LENNY KANTER (Spoken) - 

NAT SCHREIBER (Spoken) - 

DAN CONNORS (Spoken) - 

ARTHUR (?)

CHARLEY PRICE (Spoken) -

MOLLY CONNORS (?)

This is the most pitiful list I ever did do. Sorry y’all lol

Who’s Singing?

The Original Broadway Cast Recording features Liza Minnelli as Michelle Craig, Christopher Barrett as Lenny Kanter, Arnold Soboloff as Nat Schreiber, Barry Nelson as Dan Connors, Roger Minami as Arthur, Mark Goddard as Charley Price, and Gayle Crofoot as Molly Connors.

Let’s Do This

So it took me like three weeks to get the score for this show but I FINALLY have it so we can do this.

Similarly to how I did 35MM, I’ll be going in the order of the licensed version/score. Songs will be out of order from the cast recording, but they’ll all be present. Like Liza’s stage presence. VERY present.

This opening number, “Shine It On” hath begun and I’m halfway through it and had to pause it so I can just say what is happening right now in this moment. I don’t know how I feel right now. The ending is crazy fun and Liza is just doin her thang with her backup singers.

Next is a nice ballad, that in my opinion, is my favorite thing to hear Liza sing. It’s called “It’s the Strangest Thing”. I just love her jazzy voice on some of these phrases. The (kind of) wacky vibrato she has at the end of some lines, all of it. It just makes me smile so much. I love Liza’s voice on this song with everything in me.

Next is “Bobo’s” which is yet another number where Liza sings a Liza song. Really jazzy, really fun. This could probably be considered a patter song in some spots. Also, Michelle’s (Liza’s) songs are consistently being put in the Tenor clef (not the actual C clef, nerds, the treble clef with the 8 underneath, a la Madame Leonora Armfeldt, or Desiree in The Glamorous Life.) At this point in the recording, I wish I had a script to follow along with so I could understand what’s really going on and if this has any significance to the story, or if it’s during the meta part of the show, like literally any Kander and Ebb show. Just when you think it’s almost over and there’s literally an ending, the song starts again. Yippee. Bobo’s better be a really special place.

“Turning” begins with a pseudo-quote of Simple Gifts and a nice little chorale of *more than likely* ensemble ladies. Then Liza comes in with trumpets and the rest of the ensemble. Don’t get me wrong, I love Liza and I think she’s a very electric performer, but there’s something stagnant about the structure of the show (through listening to the recording) with her just singing these dance numbers.

“Arthur in the Afternoon” (a number from this show that I’ve actually heard of)  begins with Liza completely ignoring the melody for a recitative-style intro beat drops with some techno instruments playing a “You Can’t Stop the Beat”-esque beginning pattern. Michelle begins to sing about how she has coffee the morning, brandy in the evening, and Arthur in the afternoon. That’s all to be said about this ingenious number.

^ me so far and the cast recording of The Act is the feathers

“Little Do They Know” happens and the ensemble complains collectively about how the audience only cares about Liza - I mean Michelle. No, I definitely mean Liza. This song is actually really fun! The end harmonies are really cool and actually interesting.

“The Money Tree” is introduced at a slow, swung, mozying tempo and Liza’s low E. It stays pretty much like that.There a nice big moment at the end with some nice belting on Liza’s part. I feel like these songs are really good choices for auditions or cabarets, but that the show simply doesn’t work onstage. So I’m actually quite a big fan of this song. It’s fun and picks up at the end and gets more interesting as time goes on. I still need some convincing though.

“City Lights” which happens to be what they performed at the Tonys, is just another big number. Kind of a love letter to big cities. It panders. This show seems like it panders. I really wish I enjoyed it (kind of). Dance break happens with random scatting by the ensemble that I’m lowkey obsessed with.

“There When I Need Him” is a beautiful ballad Liza sings. What’s interesting to me is that the character who sings this song is labelled as Mike in the score, but it’s definitely a song Michelle sings. It really is beautiful.

Next is “Hot Enough” this song starts off SO fun. It’s really funny to me because my friend Zach and I have an inside joke where we impersonate Carol Channing and Liza Minelli, and we also conclude prayers to Stephen Sondheim at the dinner table preceding our meal with Kristin Chenoweth’s “YEAH” during her performance of “My New Philosophy” at the Tonys. So at the beginning of this number when the ensemble begins it with YEAH I can’t help but smile and imagine that they’re using finger guns when they say it.

Then there’s a pointless “Little Do They Know” reprise, but is it really pointless tho? I mean if they’re complaining along with me about Liza singing every dang thing, then amen. (disclaimer: yes I know she’s a star vehicle; I’m trying too hard to be funny. you’re welcome and i’m sorry)

“Walking Papers” is a nice little number that reminds me a lot of “Roxie”. We love originality. There is a melody on this very page. Liza don’t even know. But she goin off. Michelle and Ensemble are kind of doing a call and response bop thing. it go OFF. Check this one out.

“My Own Space” is yet another ballad. Bye.

Audition Songs

“There When I Need Him” - Michelle Craig, F#3-B4

Considering there’s literally no context gathered from this song in the plot, this would be great to bring into an audition. Not too hard for the pianist to sightread, despite the handwritten-ness of the score. Nice melody.

“The Money Tree” - Michelle Craig, Eb3-C#5

Fun song to sing at a cabaret or audition. Reminiscent of “Crazy” by Patsy Cline.

To Wrap It Up

Look, y’all. This show has fun music. It’s written for a star vehicle performer. But even shows that have star vehicle performers (Dear Evan Hansen, Legally Blonde) have songs where other people sing the solos. I get it, it’s the metatheatricality of it all, but there’s gotta be a reason why this wasn’t a huge success and is completely forgotten when you think of Kander and Ebb’s and even Liza’s successes. It’s got a couple nice songs here and there, but it’s mostly boring and largely fluff. I want to get my hands on a script soon. Maybe I’ll edit the post after I read it and I’ll have an epiphany that this show is completely brilliant, and then I’ll eat my words. Hopefully I’ll have the patience for that. ALSO no one does this show. It’s completely underproduced. However, Samuel French still offers rights for it. If you’re interested, you know where to go. And make sure you sprinkle it with some Zazz.

Get it.

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The Cat from Outer Space

The Cat from Outer Space

Watch The Cat from Outer Space

The Cat from Outer Space: A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that has special powers, including the ability to allow the cat to communicate with humans, has eluded the authorities and needs the help of a man named Frank in order to reclaim and repair his ship to get back home.

Genres:-Comedy,Sci-Fi,Family

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March Playlist

Kiss - Prince

I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance - Black Kids

Otis - Jay-Z, Kanye West, Otis Redding 

Money (That’s What I Want) - The Beatles 

Play the Ponies - Jo Blankenburg 

It’s Been a Long, Long Time - Harry James 

Fell In Love With a Girl - The White Stripes 

What I Like About You - The Romantics 

Me Myself and I - De La Soul 

I’m A Man - Bo Diddley 

Big Chief - Professor Longhair 

Girl All the Bad Guys Want - Bowling for Soup 

Gimme Some More - The J.B.’s 

Every Body Needs Somebody - The Blues Brothers 

Proud Mary - Tina Turner 

Get Up Offa That Thing - James Brown 

De Donde Eres? - Brother Strut 

The Rhythm of Life - Cy Coleman, Arnold Soboloff, Harold Pierson, Eddie Gasper, Fred Werner [Sweet Charity] 

Walking All Day - Graham Coxon [End of the F***ing World] 

Adore You - Harry Styles 

Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons

Tabu - Lecuona Cuban Boys 

I Wanna Dance with Somebody - Whitney Houston 

My Generation - The Who 

Welcome to the Jungle - Aaradhna 

Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel 

You and I - Lady GaGa 

Kiwi - Harry Styles 

In the Heights - Lin-Manuel Miranda [In the Heights] 

Sugar Daddy - Neil Patrick Harris [Hedwig and the Angry Inch] 

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Kill Me If You Can

Kill Me If You Can

Kill Me If You Can: The story of “red light bandit” Caryl Chessman, previously dramatized in the 1955 film Cell 2455, Death Row (based on Chessman’s own book), was adapted for television as Kill Me If You Can. In a radical departure from his usual duties as MASH’s Hawkeye Pierce, Alan Alda plays Chessman, who in 1948 was found guilty of robbery, kidnapping and sexual assault. Under the laws of…