well, That's Show Biz, 01-04-2026 4-40 Beginnings 2026

Beginnings 2026

“Well, That’s Show Biz!”

1-04-2026

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• Welcome to “well, That’s Show Biz!”. I am your host, Jeremy Freedman, 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.

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• And welcome to the first show of 2026 and our theme of Beginnings. Every song today deals with Beginnings in some way.

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• And so we begin our opening set with the quintessential song about Beginnings, “Open a New Window” from Mame. We will follow that with the opening song from the 2019 revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s first collaboration, Oklahoma!, “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning”. And we will end this set with Julie Andrews telling the children “Let’s start at the very beginning” as she teaches them how to sing in “Do-Re-Mi” from The Sound Of Music. Here’s Angela Lansbury with “Open a New Window”.

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• We just started off 2026 with Angela Lansbury singing “Open a New Window” from Mame, “Oh, What a Beautiful Morning” from Oklahoma!, and Julie Andrews singing “Do-Re-Mi” from The Sound Of Music.

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• Beginnings is our theme as we start off 2026 and for our second set, we begin with the original Tony, Larry Kert, singing “Something’s Coming” from West Side Story. Then we will hear the reprise of “The Other Side of the Tracks: from Little Me. We will follow that with “Happy to Make Your Acquaintance” from The Most Happy Fella. And we will end with Glenn Close and Company singing “One Brick at a Time” from Barnum. Here’s “Something’s Coming” from West Side Story.

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• You just heard “Something’s Coming” from West Side Story, “The Other Side of the Tracks: from Little Me, “Happy to Make Your Acquaintance” from The Most Happy Fella, and “One Brick at a Time” from Barnum as we listen to songs about all types of Beginnings for 2026 today on “well, That’s Show Biz!”.

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• Today is our first show for 2026 and so our theme is Beginnings, all sorts of Beginnings.

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• We are going to begin this next set with the song “We Start Today” from Baby. Then we will hear Jennifer Hudson sing “I Am Changing” from the film version of Dreamgirls. And we will end this set with “This Is the Moment” from Jekyll & Hyde - The Musical. Here’s “We Start Today” from Baby.

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• We are starting off 2026 with songs about Beginnings and you just heard “We Start Today” from Baby, “I Am Changing” from the film version of Dreamgirls, and “This Is the Moment” from Jekyll & Hyde - The Musical.

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• For our next set of songs about Beginnings, we begin with “Our Time” from the 1994 Off-Broadway cast recording of Merrily We Roll Along. Time flows backwards in this show so that this song about Beginnings is actually the final song of the show. We will follow that with Andrew Garfield and Robin de Jesus singing “No More” from the Netflix film version of tick, tick…BOOM!. And we will conclude the set with the finale from Mary Poppins, “Let’s Go Fly a Kite”, a song indicating a new beginning for the family. But don’t go away as we have one final song for you. Here’s “Our Time” from Merrily We Roll Along.

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• You just heard “Our Time” from Merrily We Roll Along, “No More” from tick, tick…BOOM!, and “Let’s Go Fly a Kite” from Mary Poppins.

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• We have one more song for you. Because Beginnings are not the end game. Here is Shirley MacLaine performing “It’s Not Where You Start” originally from the musical Seesaw.

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• We just heard Shirley MacLaine performing “It’s Not Where You Start” originally from the musical Seesaw which concludes our first show of 2026, Beginnings.

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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.