well, That's Show Biz, 08-18-2023 3-20 Back to School 2024

Back To School 2024

“Well, That’s Show Biz!”

08-18-2024

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• Welcome to “well, That’s Show Biz!”. I am your host, Jeremy Freedman, and every week I bring you music from Broadway, Movies, and Entertainers along with some anecdotes, information, and commentary all based on a theme.

• Our theme today is Back to School as students and teachers head back for the new school year.

• We are going to open with “Waving Through a Window” from Dear Evan Hansen as awkward teenager Evan, who has mental health issues, begins a new year of high school. After that, Rex Harrison tutors Julie Andrews in the proper way to speak with “The Rain In Spain” from My Fair Lady. Then, we will hear Phil Silvers with the 11 o’clock number from High Button Shoes, “Nobody Ever Died for Dear Old Rutgers”, Rutgers being Rutgers University, my alma mater. And we will conclude this first set with “Learn Your Lessons Well” from the 2011 Broadway Cast Recording of Godspell. Here’s Ben Platt with “Waving Through a Window” from Dear Evan Hansen.

• We are heading Back To School today and you just heard “Waving Through a Window” from Dear Evan Hansen, “The Rain In Spain” from My Fair Lady, “Nobody Ever Died for Dear Old Rutgers” from High Button Shoes, and “Learn Your Lessons Well” from Godspell.

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• Back To School is our theme today and we are going to start off this set with Robert Morse & Rudy Vallee singing “Grand Old Ivy” from How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. Then we will hear “Carefully Taught” from the film version of South Pacific. Then my former singing partner, Danny Adlerman, wrote and produced an award winning Children’s album. From his album One Size Fits All, we are going to hear “The Library Song”. We will follow that with Big Bird singing ‘Abc-Def-Ghi” from Sesame Street. And we will close this set with Marni Nixon dubbing for Deborah Kerr singing “Getting to Know You” to the children from The King and I. Here’s “Grand Old Ivy” from How To Succeed….

• You just heard “Grand Old Ivy” from How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, “Carefully Taught” from South Pacific, “The Library Song” from Danny Adlerman’s award winning Children’s album, One Size Fits All, Big Bird singing his signature song, “Abc-Def-Ghi”, and “Getting to Know You” from The King and I as we send students and teachers Back To School today on “well, That’s Show Biz!”.

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• You are listening to “well, That’s Show Biz!” on [Station ID].

• It’s the time of year when students and teachers go Back To School which is our theme today.  And students are getting all sorts of assignments.

• We are going to begin our third set with “Book Report” from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.  And in the sequel of a sort musical, Snoopy, the kids fear being called upon by their teacher to talk about “Edgar Allen Poe”. And we will conclude this set with “A Little More Homework” from the film version of 13: The Musical. Here’s “Book Report” from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

• We are going Back To School today and you just heard “Book Report” from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, “Edgar Allen Poe” from Snoopy, and “A Little More Homework” from 13: The Musical.

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• If you would like to help out with a future show, send your theme and song suggestions to me at wruushowbiz@gmail.com. And if you are enjoying today’s show, contact the station at WRUU.org and let them know.

• We’ve been heading Back To School today and for our concluding set we are going to hear satirist Tom Lehrer singing about the “New Math”. Then we are going to hear “I Can’t Do the Sum” from a recent production of Victor Herbert’s operetta Babes in Toyland. And we will end with Billy Elliot meeting his dance teacher for the first time who sings “Shine”.  Here’s Tom Lehrer and “New Math”.

• You just heard Tom Lehrer with “New Math”. “I Can’t Do the Sum” from Babes in Toyland, and “Shine” from Billy Elliot as we conclude today’s Back To School show.

• If you would like to help out with a future show, send me your theme and song suggestions to wruushowbiz@gmail.com. And if you enjoyed today’s show, contact the station at WRUU.org.

• And don’t forget to tell your friends to join us every Sunday at 1 pm EDT for more “well, That’s Show Biz!” on [Station ID]. See you next week.