well, That's Show Biz, 09-22-2024 3-25 Fantasy 2

Fantasy 2

“Well, That’s Show Biz!”

09-22-2024

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

• Today’s show is about Fantasy. Musicals based on the Fantastic.  We are going to open with the song “Impossible; It’s Possible” from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s original 1957 TV Cast Recording of Cinderella. Then Jack, of Beanstalk fame, sings about “Giants in the Sky” from Into The Woods. We will follow that with Angela Lansbury, as Mrs. Potts, singing the title song to Beauty and the Beast. And we will conclude this set with Carol Burnett lamenting that they all lived “Happily Ever After” from the Princess and the Pea musical, Once Upon a Mattress. Here’s “Impossible” from Cinderella.

• We are listening to songs from Fantasy musicals today and you just heard “Impossible; It’s Possible” from Cinderella, “Giants in the Sky” from Into The Woods, the title song from Beauty and the Beast, and “Happily Ever After” from Once Upon a Mattress.

• We start our second set with the Witch of the North singing “He’s the Wizard” from The Wiz. We will follow that with Willy Wonka singing “It Must Be Believed to Be Seen” from the 2017 Broadway production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Then we will hear “Hushabye Mountain” from the London production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. And we will conclude with Mary Martin and the original cast of Peter Pan soaring with “I’m Flying”. Here’s “He’s the Wizard” from The Wiz.

• You just heard “He’s the Wizard” from The Wiz, “It Must Be Believed to Be Seen” from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, “Hushabye Mountain” from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and “I’m Flying” from Peter Pan as we listen to songs from Fantasy Musicals today on “well, That’s Show Biz!”.

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• We are listening to songs from Fantasy musicals today. We start off our third set with the Prologue to Cats, a show about a group of cats that get together to decide which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer. Then, the cast of Marry Poppins has a tea party on the ceiling with “I Love to Laugh”. We will follow that with Angela Lansbury as a witch in training singing about the spell “Substitutiary Locomotion” from Bedknobs and Broomsticks. And we will conclude the set with John Cullum singing “Come Back to Me” from On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, a show concerning ESP.  Here’s the Prologue to Cats.

• Fantasy is today’s theme and you just heard the Prologue to Cats, “I Love to Laugh” from Mary Poppins, “Substitutiary Locomotion” from Bedknobs and Broomsticks, and we ended the set with “Come Back to Me” from On A Clear Day You Can See Forever.

• And now for our last Fantastic set. We open with “Under the Sea” from The Little Mermaid. We then segue to “Old Devil Moon” from Finian’s Rainbow, a show with magic, Leprechauns, and a pot of gold. And we will conclude with “Defying Gravity” from Wicked. Here’s “Under the Sea” from The Little Mermaid.

• You just heard “Under the Sea” from The Little Mermaid, “Old Devil Moon” from Finian’s Rainbow, and “Defying Gravity” from Wicked. And that concludes today’s show on Fantasy.

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