well, That's Show Biz, 05-28-2023 2-9 Animals

Animals

“Well, That’s Show Biz!”

05-28-2023

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• Welcome to “well, That’s Show Biz!”. I am your host, Jeremy Freedman, and each 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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• May is National Pet Month in the United States. This can be a bit confusing as April is Pet Month in some other countries. So for National Pet Month, our theme today is going to be Animals. There are lots of shows that feature animals or have songs about animals. The most famous being a show all about cats and, during this hour, we will feature a few songs from Cats. We will open the first set with the opening song from Cats, “Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats”. The musical Cats is based on T.S. Eliot’s poetry collection Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats and tells the story of a group of cats  who have to choose which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life. Then we are going to hear the song “Snoopy” from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Next, in the song “Green Finch and Linnet Bird” from Sweeney Todd, Johanna sings about how her life is like birds in a bird cage. And finally, we will hear “Les Poissons”, the fish, from Disney’s movie, The Little Mermaid. Here’s “Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats” as we honor National Pet Month.

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• It’s National Pet Month in the U.S. and we just heard “Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats” from Cats, “Snoopy” from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, “Green Finch and Linnet Bird” from Sweeney Todd, and “Les Poissons” from The Little Mermaid.

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• You are listening to “well, That’s Show Biz!” and May is National Pet Month in the US. Our theme this week is Animals. The musical Cats highlights the lives of different Jellicle Cats and to start off set two, we will hear about “The Rum Tum Tugger”. Next, Stephanie Mills and Ted Ross sing “Be a Lion” from The Wiz. Then Danny Kaye, as Noah from the bible will sing the title song to the musical Two By Two as he loads the animals into the Ark. And finally, from the Broadway show of The Lion King, we are going to hear young Simba and cast sing “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King”. Here’s “The Rum Tum Tugger” from the London version of Cats.

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

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• Animals is our theme today for National Pet Month and you just heard “The Rum Tum Tugger” from Cats, “Be a Lion” from The Wiz, “Two By Two” from Two By Two, and “I Just Can’t Wait to Be King” from The Lion King.

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• To open our third set, we are going to go back to You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown to listen to Snoopy relating his infamous encounter with “The Red Baron”. Then the muleteers serenade kitchen wench, Aldonza, with “Little Bird, Little Bird” from Man Of La Mancha. And we will go back to Cats to learn about “Macavity: The Mystery Cat”. The way this song was recorded, after the song there is dance music.  Here’s Snoopy with ‘The Red Baron” from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

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• You just heard Snoopy talk about “The Red Baron” from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, “Little Bird, Little Bird” from Man Of La Mancha, and “Macavity: The Mystery Cat” from Cats as we celebrate National Pet Month today on “well, That’s Show Biz!”.

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• You are listening to “well, That’s Show Biz!” on WRUU 107.5 FM in Savannah, GA. I am always looking for theme suggestions so If you would like to help with the production of this show, you can send me your theme and song suggestions to wruushowbiz@gmail.com. And if you are enjoying today’s show, contact the station at WRUU.org and let them know.

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• To close out our Animal themed show for National Pet Month, We are going to start with the “Song of the King (Seven Fat Cows)” from Webber and Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. By the way, I just found out there will be a movie made of Joseph. Next, we will hear Danny Kaye tell the story of The Ugly Duckling from the movie Hans Christian Anderson. Then, Julie Andrews sings the lullabye plea, “Feed the Birds” from May Poppins. And we will close out our show with “Mr. Mistoffelees” from the London company of Cats. Here’s the “Song of the King (Seven Fat Cows)” from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

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• You just heard “Song of the King (Seven Fat Cows)’ from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, “The Ugly Duckling” from Hans Christian Anderson, “Feed the Birds” from Mary Poppins, and “Mr. Mistoffelees” from Cats as we close out May which is National Pet Month in the US.

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• If you would like to help out with a future show, you can send me your the,e and song suggestions to wruushowbiz@gmail.com. And if you enjoyed today’s show, tell the station by contacting them at WRUU.org. See you next week.