All tagged A Connecticut Yankee
As I approach my 100th blog entry, I thought I would have a celebration of my 100 favorite showtunes and explain why each song sings out to me. Since all 100 in one entry would make for some tedious reading, I will use this as the countdown to my 100th blog. Here are the first 25! Weigh in and share with me some of your favorites.
There are many great lyricists to celebrate throughout the history of Broadway: Sondheim for his complexity and deep understanding of character development, Porter for his sparkling wit and his wizardry with internal rhyme, E.Y. Harburg with his subtly subversive whimsy, Ira Gershwin for his sophistication, and of course Dorothy Fields for her bold, realistic characterizations. Still, I have always been partial to Lorenz Hart who could marry all of the above with an ease and smoothness that elevate the song to greatness without drawing attention to itself. In other words, it is natural. A Hart lyric glides, flows and illuminates.
