well, That's Show Biz, 09-01-2024 3-22 Fan Favorites 5

Fan Favorites 5

“Well, That’s Show Biz!”

09-01-2024

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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.

• I asked fans to send me their lists of favorite musicals and I would create a show tailored around their lists. This is the 5th of those shows which I call Fan Favorites. This fan’s list of musicals contains some interesting choices.

• The first musical on her list is one of the most popular and considered one of the best musicals of all time.  It deals with the power of the people coming together to fight for a common cause and is a celebration of freedom and democracy. It uses rap, jazz, and modern musical influences as well as non-traditional casting to tell the story of one of our founding fathers who himself was an immigrant. From Fan Favorite musical, Hamilton, we are going to hear the songs, “The Schuyler Sisters” and the “Dear Theodosia”.

• You just heard  the songs “The Schuyler Sisters” and “Dear Theodosia” from the Fan Favorite musical, Hamilton.

• The next musical on her list is advertised as “The world’s most popular musical” and it is hard to argue with that. It opened in London in 1985 making it presently the longest running musical in the West End. The musical was originally released as a French-language concept album in 1980. Created by composer Claude-Michel Schonberg and lyricist Herbert Kretzmer and based on Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel, Les Miserables ran for 6,680 performances on Broadway making it, at the time, the second-longest-running musical in Broadway history. From Fan Favorite musical, Les Miserables here are the songs “At the End of the Day” and “On My Own”.

• You just heard “At the End of the Day” and “On My Own” from the Fan Favorite Musical, Les Miserables.

• I asked fans to send me their lists of favorite musicals and I would create a show around those lists. This is the 5th of those shows which I call Fan Favorites.

• The next show on this fan’s list is a show based on a 1973 French play which tells the story of a gay couple, one who manages a nightclub and the other who is the star attraction at the club. With music by Jerry Herman and a book by Harvey Fierstein, La Cage Aux Folles ran for 1,761 performances on Broadway and produced the gay anthem, “I Am What I Am” which closed the first act. We are going to hear the title song as well as the song “A Little More Mascara”. Here’s Fan Favorite, La Cage Aux Folles.

• You just heard the title song and the song “A Little More Mascara” from the Fan Favorite musical La Cage Aux Folles as we listen to Fan Favorites on “well, That’s Show Biz!”.

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• I have asked fans to send me their lists of favorite musicals and I would create a show based on their lists. This is the fifth of those shows which I call Fan Favorites.

• The next show on her list is an interesting choice. This show was the first Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical to be performed publicly as a 15-minute pop Cantata in 1968. After the success of Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was turned into a stage production. From the Canadian cast recording starring Donny Osmond, here are the songs “Any Dream Will Do” and “Close Every Door”.

• You just heard the songs “Any Dream Will Do” and “Close Every Door” from the Fan Favorite musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

• The next musical on her list is another interesting choice. This charming musical first ran on Broadway in 1983 and tells the story of three different couples each expecting a child. From the musical Baby, here are the songs “Fatherhood Blues” and “I Chose Right”.

• You just heard the songs “Fatherhood Blues” and “I Chose Right” from the Fan Favorite musical Baby.

• If you would like to have a show tailored around your favorite musicals, send me your list of  5 – 10 favorite musicals, theater or movie, to me at wruushowbiz@gmail.com. And if you are enjoying today’s show, contact the station at WRUU.org and let them know.

• And now for the final Fan Favorite show on here list, this show was based on a series of stories by Sholem Aleichem about Jewish life in a village in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia. From Fan Favorite Fiddler On The Roof, here are the songs “Matchmaker”, “Now I Have Everything”, and “Sabbath Prayer”.

• You just heard the songs “Matchmaker”, “Now I Have Everything”, and “Sabbath Prayer” from the Fan Favorite musical Fiddler On The Roof.

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