Scene Change (One Playlist Gone!)

Saying “I guess this is goodbye old friend” to Turning Points

Before we launch into a new playlist next week, I wanted to take a moment to look back on what we’ve covered so far. (If you missed anything, you can catch up here: https://100showtunes.substack.com/t/turning-points)

Turning Points introduced many important concepts and people. The following is a non-exhaustive list of terms that are likely to come up again in future posts. Do you remember them all?

• Musical Comedy

• Golden Age Musical / Musical Play

• Concept Musical

• Boris Aronson

• Michael Bennett (no relation to Robert Russell)

• Robert Russell Bennett (no relation to Michael)

• Leonard Bernstein

• Bob Fosse

• John Kander and Fred Ebb

• Cameron Mackintosh

• Trevor Nunn

• Diane Paulus

• Harold “Hal” Prince

• Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II

• Jerome Robbins

• Stephen Sondheim

• Jonathan Tunick

• Thomas Z. Shepherd

• Andrew Lloyd Webber

Turning Points on YouTube

When I first started out on this, I warned that there wasn’t going to be a pre-made playlist with my recommended recordings. While my posts focus on cast recordings, there are a lot of great video performances out there worthy of our eyeballs. So I’ve compiled a YouTube playlist of favorite videos for Turning Points. You can check it out here:

https://tinyurl.com/TurningPointsVideos

”Rat Pack, Audra McDonald, or Glee?” Scorecards

I love a venn diagram, so I made a couple summarizing the age-old question: “What it Covered by the Rat Pack, Audra McDonald, or Glee?” The first diagram takes a purist approach—credit to those who recorded the exact song in question.

The 2nd diagram takes a more generous approach and reflects the tangential relationships mentioned in previous posts.

In the Wings

Next week (June 25) we’ll reveal the theme for the next playlist. Song No. 15 will drop on July 2.