well, That's Show Biz, 06-22-2025 4-12 Pride 2025

Pride 2025

“Well, That’s Show Biz!”

6-22-2025

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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.

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• Today’s show was pre-recorded.

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• June is Pride Month. It’s origins go back to June 28, 1969 when the New York City police went on one of their routine raids of the Stonewall Inn which was popular among the LGBTQ community. But this time, the community had enough and fought back, led mainly by drag queens and other marginalized groups within the gay community. This led to several nights of rioting and gay liberation protests. The community just wanted to live their authentic lives with dignity.

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• <Play “I Am What I Am”>

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• You just heard “I Am What I Am” from La Cage Aux Folles which has become a Pride anthem for the LGBTQ community. Pride Month is our theme today.

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• We are  going to start off our first set with “Getting Married Today” from the 2018 London cast recording of Stephen Sondheim’s Company. In this production, the gender roles were reversed and instead of the female character Amy getting married, we have Jonathan Bailey as Jaime getting married to a man. We will follow that with the beautiful duet “Dance with You” from The Prom. Then we will hear “Mystery of Love” from the movie Call Me By Your Name, and we will conclude with “The Best Thing That Has Ever Happened” from Road Show, Stephen Sondheim’s only gay love song.  Here’s the gender reversed “Getting Married Today” from Company.

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• We are listening to songs for Pride Month today and you just heard the gender reversed “Getting Married Today” from Company, “Dance with You” from The Prom, “Mystery of Love” from the movie Call Me By Your Name, “The Best Thing That Has Ever Happened” from Road Show.

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• <PSA>

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• Today we are listening to songs for Pride Month. Many years ago we saw Cindi Lauper’s True Colors Tour. One of the acts in the concert was Erasure with lead vocalist and songwriter Andy Bell. The Band was absolutely phenomenal and for this set I am going to play two of their songs which were recorded Live in concert. First we are going to hear “Oh L’Amour” followed by “A Little Respect”. Here is the LGBTQ band, Erasure.

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• You just heard the band Erasure with two of their hit songs “Oh L’Amour” and “A Little Respect” as we listen to songs for Pride Month today on “well, That’s Show Biz!”.

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• <Station Promo or Underwriting>

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

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• June is Pride Month so we are celebrating with songs related to Pride.

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• We are going to open our third set with Andrew Rannells and company singing “Love Thy Neighbor” from The Prom. Then, Harvey Milk was the first openly gay politician from San Francisco being elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He was assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone by former supervisor Dan White.  We are going to hear the song “You Are Here” from the musical I Am Harvey Milk. And we will conclude the set with Neil Patrick Harris singing “Wig In a Box” from Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Here’s “Love Thy Neighbor” from The Prom.

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• We are listening to songs for Pride Month today and you just heard “Love Thy Neighbor” from The Prom, “You Are Here” from the musical I Am Harvey Milk, and “Wig In a Box” from Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

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• <Donation Copy>

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• <Other Show Promo>

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• And now for our concluding Pride set we are going to open with “I’ll Cover You” from Rent. We will follow that with “What More Can I Say?” from Falsettos. And we will end with “Raise You Up / Just Be”, a Pride anthem, from Kinky Boots.  Here’s “I’ll Cover You” from Rent.

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• We just heard “I’ll Cover You” from Rent, “What More Can I Say?” from Falsettos, and “Raise You Up / Just Be”, from Kinky Boots as we conclude our show for Pride Month.

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• And that concludes this week’s edition of well, That’s Show Biz!”. If you would like to assist with a future show, send your theme and song suggestions to me at wruushowbiz@gmail.com. And if you enjoyed today’s show, please contact the station at WRUU.org and let them know. And don’t forget to tell your friends to join us every Sunday at 1pm for more of “well, That’s Show Biz!” on WRUU-LP, Savannah, GA, 107.5FM and WRUU.org.  We are Savannah Soundings, Community Radio with Global Soul.

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• Please stay tuned for “Music At The Movies”, coming up next, hosted by Aiden Peck and I will see you next week. So long.