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Liberty Musical
…by Mary McCarty, who’d later portray Stella in Follies and Matron Mama Morton in Chicago.Both make attractive sounding Liberty belles. So let’s take an old-fashioned walk through time and meet…
How Mondegreen Was My Folly
…was actually singing, “I say, ‘Vote yes! Vote yes!” Arthur Masella may have been so dazzled by “The Mirror Number” in Follies that he didn’t catch the lyric, “Whose Lothario…
Those April Showers …
…sang in the landmark Follies in Concert in 1985. Also try the one in Jane Eyre, where our eponymous heroine finds the rain refreshing. Arthur Kipps in Half a Sixpence…
Presidential Musicals
…speaking of “I’m Still Here” from Follies, Sondheim mentions both “Herbert and J. Edgar Hoo-ooo-ooo-ver.” Cole Porter acknowledged not only a president but also a first lady when citing “Truman’s…
One of My Old Fav’rite Songs from Way Back When
…Schmittou, “I can’t get enough of this song.” Get ready to press “Repeat,” Mr. S. This Gallagher-and-Shean recording stems from their appearance in Ziegfeld Follies of 1922 at the New…