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Scary Radio.
As I got in my sister's car to drive to work tonight (I pick my car up after I get back from work), I started scanning around the stations. I don't like to reset stations in other people's cars, so I had to manually move around the public radio area of the dial. I stopped when I heard what sounded like circus music. You know that music they play when clowns come out of a car Doo doo doodoodoodoo doo doo doodoo...? That's what this sounded like. Interested, I tuned in.
"Hm. It's odd that they would be playing circus music."
"Hm. It's odd that there would be people singing absurdly happy German lyrics to the circus music."
"Hm. This music sounds vaguely familiar, actually."
"Hm. It doesn't sound like it's from The Producers, though."
"Hm. If I didn't know better, I'd say this sounded like Sondheim writing disturbingly happy German circus music."
"Hm. Wasn't there a circusy song in Company?"
At this point, I was paralyzed in shock at hearing the German words suddenly break into "BOBBY! BOBBY! BOBBY! BOBBY! BOBBY! BOBBY!" Yes, this was, in fact, the German Cast Recording of Stephen Sondheim's "Side by Side by Side." And that's a pretty scary song to begin with.
It turns out this is a radio show that specializes in this sort of Broadway oddity. Earlier in the program (i.e., before I got in the car), they played a recording of Wayne Newton singing "Hello, Dolly." Later in the program, I heard "The Ladies Who Lunch" from the same album, but that wasn't as scary, except for the point at which the singer tried to cough up a hairball.
But I'm still scarred from "Side by Side by Side."
"Hm. It's odd that they would be playing circus music."
"Hm. It's odd that there would be people singing absurdly happy German lyrics to the circus music."
"Hm. This music sounds vaguely familiar, actually."
"Hm. It doesn't sound like it's from The Producers, though."
"Hm. If I didn't know better, I'd say this sounded like Sondheim writing disturbingly happy German circus music."
"Hm. Wasn't there a circusy song in Company?"
At this point, I was paralyzed in shock at hearing the German words suddenly break into "BOBBY! BOBBY! BOBBY! BOBBY! BOBBY! BOBBY!" Yes, this was, in fact, the German Cast Recording of Stephen Sondheim's "Side by Side by Side." And that's a pretty scary song to begin with.
It turns out this is a radio show that specializes in this sort of Broadway oddity. Earlier in the program (i.e., before I got in the car), they played a recording of Wayne Newton singing "Hello, Dolly." Later in the program, I heard "The Ladies Who Lunch" from the same album, but that wasn't as scary, except for the point at which the singer tried to cough up a hairball.
But I'm still scarred from "Side by Side by Side."
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I've never heard this radio show, any recording of Side by Side by Sondheim (I'm not normally a fan of revues), or the German cast recording of Company, but it definitely sounds pretty interesting.