well, That's Show Biz, 11-24-2024 3-33 Thanksgiving/Gratitude 2024

Thanksgiving/Gratitude 2024

“Well, That’s Show Biz!”

11-24-2024

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

• Thursday is Thanksgiving so today’s show is about giving thanks and gratitude.

• We are going to start off the first set with “I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’” from the original movie soundtrack of Porgy and Bess. Then we will hear Elaine Stritch with “I’m Still Here” originally from Follies. This version is from her one woman show, Elaine Stritch at Liberty. And we will finish the set with “All Good Gifts” from the 2000 Off-Broadway cast recording of Godspell. Here’s “I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’”.

• We are celebrating Thanksgiving today with songs of gratitude and you just heard “I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin” from Porgy and Bess, Elaine Stritch singing “I’m Still Here” from her one woman show, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, and “All Good Gifts” from Godspell.

• Thanksgiving is also a day when family gathers together and we stuff ourselves with food. Opening the second set is Jerry Orbach, Angela Lansbury, and the cast of the Disney animated film, Beauty and the Beast, with “Be Our Guest”. We will follow that with “Food Glorious Food” from Oliver!. Then we will hear “Suppertime” from You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown. And we will conclude the set with Stephanie Mills singing “Home” from The Wiz.  Here’s “Be Our Guest” from Beauty and The Beast.

• You just heard “Be Our Guest” from Beauty and The Beast, “Food Glorious Food” from Oliver!, “Suppertime” from You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, and “Home” from The Wiz as we celebrate Thanksgiving and Gratitude today on “well, That’s Show Biz!”.

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• Thanksgiving is Thursday so we are celebrating with songs of gratitude today.

• We are going to open the third set with Bing Crosby singing “I’ve Got Plenty To Be Thankful For” from the Irving Berlin film Holiday Inn. Then Julie Andrews sings about “Something Good” from the film version of The Sound of Music. We will follow that with Colm Wilkinson singing “Bring Him Home” from Les Miserables, And we will conclude the set with Bernadette Peters singing “I Got the Sun In the Morning” from the 1999 Broadway production of Annie Get Your Gun. Here’s Bing.

• We are listening to songs of gratitude today for Thanksgiving which is coming up on Thursday and you just heard Bing Crosby sing “I’ve Got Plenty To be Thankful For” from the film Holiday Inn, Julie Andrews with “Something Good” from The Sound of Music, “Bring Him Home” from Les Miserables, and Bernadette Peters singing “I Got the Sun In the Morning” from Annie Get Your Gun.

• For our final Thanksgiving set of songs of gratitude, we will start with “A Hundred Million Miracles” from the original Broadway cast recording of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song. And we will close with “You Will Be Found” from Dear Evan Hansen. Here’s “A Hundred Million Miracles” from Flower Drum Song.

• You just heard “A Hundred Million Miracles” from Flower Drum Song and “You Will Be Found” from Dear Evan Hansen as we close out our pre-Thanksgiving show with Gratitude.

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