well, That's Show Biz, 05-08-2022 6 Mother's Day

Mother’s Day

“Well, That’s Show Biz!”

5-8-2022

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• And welcome to “well, That’s Show Biz!”. I am your host, Jeremy Freedman and with each show I will be bringing you music from Broadway, Movies, and Entertainers along with some anecdotes, information, and Commentary.

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• Today’s theme is the theme of the day - Mother’s Day. We’re celebrating all sorts of mothers today from the noble to the nefarious. And we are going to start off with the song “Mamma Mia” from the Broadway show Mamma Mia! Which showcased the songs of ABBA.  Next we will hear Liz Callaway sing “The Story Goes On” from a little Broadway show called “Baby”. The show is about 3 different couples, one in their late teens/early 20s, another in their 30s, and the third in their 40s, all expecting a baby. We will follow that with Baby June and her sister Louise from the original cast of Gypsy singing “If Momma Was Married”. And we will conclude this set with “If He Walked into My Life” from Mame. Angela Lansbury plays Mame Dennis who adopts her late brother’s son and raises him as her own in an unconventional way only to be disappointed in him as a grown man.  But first, here’s “Mamma Mia”.

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• You are listening to Mother’s Day on “well, That’s Show Biz!” on [station ID} and you just heard “Mamma Mia”, “The Story Goes On” from Baby, “If Momma Was Married” from Gypsy, and Angela Lansbury singing “If He Walked into My Life” from Mame.

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• It’s Mother’s Day today and we are celebrating all mothers and mother figures here at “well, That’s Show Biz!”  In The King and I, Kelli O’Hara played Anna Leonowens, an English school teacher hired by the King of Siam to be the governess to his many children. She brings her own son with her to Siam. In the song, “I Whistle a Happy Tune”, she explains to her son what she does to keep her fears at bay. The musical Chicago features Matron “Mama” Morton who presides over the women’s cell block and explains her role in the song “When You’re Good to Mama”. And we’re going to close out this set with the glorious Audra McDonald as the Reverend Mother in the Sound of Music giving advice to Maria with “Climb Ev’ry Mountain”. Here’s Kelli O’Hara as Anna in The King and I.

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• We just heard “I Whistle a Happy Tune” from The King and I, “When You’re Good to Mama” from Chicago, and “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” from The Sound of Music.

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• You are listening to Mother’s Day on “well, That’s Show Biz!” on [station ID]. I am your host, Jeremy Freedman. If you would like to contact me to offer theme or songs suggestions you can email me at wruushowbiz@gmail.com.  And if you enjoy the show, please contact the station at wruu.org and let them know. In our next set, We will hear Marissa Jaret Winokur invite her mother played by Harvey Fierstein to “Welcome to the 60’s” from Hairspray. In the show 1776, a soldier talks about mothers going to the town green to look for their sons in the song, “Momma Look Sharp”. We will follow that with Shirley Jones sparring with her mother played by Pert Kelton in the song “Piano Lesson” from The Music Man. And we will conclude this set with Gene Barry from the musical La Cage Aux Folles singing to his son “Look Over There” about the person who raised him. Here’s “Welcome to the 60’s” from Hairspray.

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• You just heard “Welcome to the 60’s” from Hairspray, “Momma Look Sharp” from 1776, “Piano Lesson” from The Music Man, and “Look Over There” from La Cage Aux Folles on this Mother’s Day edition of “well, That’s Show Biz!”

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• For our final Mother’s Day set, we are going to go back to Siam to hear “Getting to Know You” from the movie version of The King and I. Marnie Nixon famously dubbed Deborah Kerr’s voice. She also dubbed voices in many movie musicals including Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady and Natalie Wood in West Side Story. We finally got to see her as one of the convent nuns in the movie version of The Sound of Music. We will follow that with “Mamma, Mamma” from the Most Happy Fella as Tony sings to his mother who has passed away. In Into The Woods, Bernadette Peters as the Witch sings “Stay With Me” to Rapunzel, a girl given to her as a baby which she raised as her daughter.  And finally, we will conclude with the mother of all stage mothers, the mother of Gypsy Rose Lee, sung by Bette Midler, in “Rose’s Turn” from Gypsy. Here’s Marnie Nixon, “Getting to Know You” from The King and I.

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• You just heard “Getting to Know You”, from The King and I, “Mamma, Mamma” from The Most Happy Fella, “Stay With Me” from Into the Woods, and “Rose’s Turn” from Gypsy. If you would like to contact me, you can email me, Jeremy Freedman, at wruushowbiz@gmail.com. Thanks for listening to “well, That’s Show Biz!” on [station ID].