Has there ever been a Broadway musical about a woman who sings with the band? Back in the 40s it was very popular to have a woman get up and sing a couple of numbers. It seems like it could be an interesting story ala Rosemary Clooney or something like the Liza Minnelli character in New York, New York.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Alfred Uhry and Robert Waldman followed up The Robber Bridegroom with a musical called Swing! It opened at teh Kennedy Center and starred Debbie Shapiro (not yet called Debbie Gravitte) as the band singer.
It had some great songs but it closed.
A year later, a revised version opened off Broadway at the Harold Clurman Theatre. This one starred Ann Morrison, straight from Merrily, and it was directed and choreographed by Robert LuPone, straight from Chorus Line.
It closed, and the musical has never been heard of again.
If you've a tropical torso And your digestion is grand You may do finer than Ginny or Dinah, Or Dottie or Janet or Helen or Ina They don't need to know from a major or minor The Ladies Who Sing With the Band
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
Happily staying with Bestie's tangent, that cast in that show was one of the all-time great evenings of theater in the 70's-- thanks for any excuse to remind us of them all!
In the revisal of "On A Clear Day", didn't they make Daisy Gamble a big band singer?
"A coherent existance after so many years of muddle" - Desiree' Armfelt, A Little Night Music
"Life keeps happening everyday, Say Yes" - 70, Girls, 70
"Life is what you do while you're waiting to die" - Zorba
A different take on a lady who sings with the band. Link
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.