On Thursday night after the streetcars got emptier I started making trips from my old place in Little Portugal, carrying my biggest pieces of furniture each time, to the new place at Spadina and Queen.
Saturday, 11 July 2026
Friday, 10 July 2026
Johnny Mercer
I worked out the chords for the first verse and the first line of the second verse of “La complainte de Bonnot” by Boris Vian. The second verse has the same chords as the first except for the end where it goes lower.
I ran through the French text while listening to the audio of “Ça” (That), the parody of the Serge Gainsbourg song “Je t’aime. Moi non plus (I Love You. Neither Do I)” to see if I’d split the two voices correctly. I had to split them up some more and so that changes the meaning slightly and I had to revise my translation again. I haven’t quite finished that but I will tomorrow and then I’ll check with the audio again.
I weighed 89.3 kilos before breakfast.
I worked on getting caught up in my journal.
I weighed 90.65 kilos before lunch.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and stopped at Freshco on the way back. The cherries these days are still cheap so I got seven bags. I also bought a pack of Quebec strawberries, some bananas, a jar of natural peanut butter, a pack of Full City Dark coffee, and some 2 in 1 shampoo. When I got home I realized I’d forgotten to buy Sponge Towels so I rode back to Freshco to get a pack.
I weighed 89.9 kilos at 18:50.
I was behind on my journal so I worked on getting caught up.
I had a potato with gravy and my last two strips of finger beef while watching season 10, episode 9 of The Carol Burnett Show.
During the audience warmup someone asks Carol why all of her gowns have pockets. She says she specifically asks Bob Mackie to give them pockets because she never knows what to do with her hands.
Someone asks Carol what alternative career she would have chosen. She says a school teacher for college boys.
In the first sketch Tim’s old man character is the counter person and the cook at a diner when Harvey sits down to order a hot dog and a chocolate milkshake. Tim keeps forgetting the order and so Harvey grabs his pad from him and writes it down. Tim asks, “What’s a hot dag?” When that’s cleared up Tim asks what he wants on it and he says he wants it plain. Tim asks if he wants a bun. Harvey asks, “What’s a hotdog without a bun?” Tim says, “A lonely weenie”. Tim pulls the hot dog out of the steamer but there are 12 of them linked and he doesn’t have the strength to break one off so he lowers 11 of them into the garbage disposal. Tim pulls the fries out of the hot grease with his bare hand but doesn’t feel burned until Harvey points it out to him. Tim is struggling with a box of buns while Harvey is holding the wiener. Harvey puts the frank in his vest pocket and takes a bun, then reaches for the hot dog but pulls out a cigar and puts it on the bun and bites into it. He blames Tim for that and abandons the idea of having a hot dog. He just asks for the chocolate shake. Tim puts a scoop in the metal cup, adds milk and chocolate. Tim asks if he wants it thick or thin and Harvey says thick. As he struggles with the scoop, Harvey is cracking up. Tim puts it under the mixer and pours in in a glass. Harvey asks why he couldn’t have been that efficient with the hot dog. Harvey takes a drink and spits it out, saying it’s horrible. Tim says it probably needs more ice cream and gets another scoop. But then Harvey looks and sees he made the shake with mashed potatoes. Tim says in that case he’ll have to charge him for the Blue Plate Special.
Ken Barry does a number with a group of male dancers and the scene is a patio bar where he and the other guys are harassing and inappropriately touching a waiter. Ken sings “Love Stolen” by Alfred Uhry and Robert Waldman from the 1975 musical The Robber Bridegroom. In the dance, a lot of female dancers are grabbed as if against their will. Eventually one very tall woman turns the tables on Ken.
They do a parody of Mildred Pierce called Mildred Fierce with Carol playing the Joan Crawford part. She comes into a police station to confess to the murder of her husband. Tim takes down her confession and so she tells the story, starting from just after her first husband left her. She breaks the news to her spoiled daughter Vida (played by Vicki) who only cares about lost money. She asks her mother how a no talent klutz like her is ever gonna make any money. After three years Mildred is making money but Vida is embarrassed because she has a chain of restaurants called Mildred’s Fatburgers so she runs away. Monty Slick arrives (played by Harvey) to sell her one of his buildings for another restaurant. Vida returns and is impressed with Monty the lecherous playboy she’s heard of. She encourages her mother to marry Monty so they can be rich. Monty says he’s not interested in marriage. Vida reminds him flirtatiously they he’d also be living with her and so he agrees to marry Mildred. He embraces Mildred and kisses Vida at the same time. Returning to the present, Tim informs Mildred that they caught the real killer and Vida is brought in. Mildred continues telling the story. She is married to Monty and when she comes home from work she catches him making out with Vida. Vida tells her they are getting married and running away together. Mildred leaves but then Monty tells Vida he never said he’d marry her and won’t. Vida grabs a gun and shoots him. Mildred returns and agrees to take the blame to save Vida. Returning to the present, Mildred tell Tim that this is only Vida’s first murder and she’s sorry. Tim says he’ll let her go this time but don’t do this again. But we hear Vida being unrepentant and on the way out of the police station Mildred shoots her, then comes back to confess to Tim.
They do a mini-musical built on the lyrics of Johnny Mercer.
Sam (played by Harvey) pretends to play piano and sings “Laura” with music by David Raksin from the 1945 musical Laura. Carol plays Laura who waits tables in a place owned by Eddy who Laura is in love with. But Eddy (played by Ken) is in love with the singer Tangerine (played by Vicki).
Laura sings the 1942 song “Not Mine” with music by Victor Schertzinger.
Eddy sings the 1941 song “Tangerine” also composed by Schertzinger.
Eddy tells Laura he’s going to ask Tangerine to marry him but he’s nervous. She tells him what to say by singing, “Namely You” with music by gene De Paul from the 1954 musical Li’l Abner.
But when Tangerine walks in he sings, “My Night to Howl” with music by Robert Emmett Dolan from the 1964 musical Foxy.
Tangerine does her stage act while singing, “Any Place I Hang My Hat is My Home” with music by Harold Arlen from the 1946 musical St. Louis Woman.
Laura gets Eddy to give Tangerine the ring and then she goes off to party with some customers.
Eddy sings more of “Tangerine”.
Sam sings the 1944 song “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive” with music by Harold Arlen. Then Laura sings it to Eddy. But then Tangerine comes back. Sam sings to Laura “Namely You”. But then Eddy joins in and gives the ring to Laura. They kiss and leave together. Sam sings “Laura”, then Tangerine sits with her arm around him.
Johnny Mercer learned to dance from Arthur Murray. He started as a singer and songwriter for Paul Whitemena. He started writing songs for and acting in movies in 1935. He teamed up with Hoagy Carmichael in 1933 and they co-wrote “Lazybones”, which earned them each $1250 ($32, 223 today). He moved to Hollywood in 1935 to write songs for movies. He wrote the song “Hooray for Hollywood” for the movie Hollywood Hotel. He wrote the words and music to “I’m An Old Cowhand” and it was his first hit. He got his first Academy Award nomination in 1938 for “Jeepers Creepers”. The same year he co-wrote “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby”. In 1941 he started writing songs with Harold Arlen and their first hit was “Blues in the Night”. They wrote “One for My Baby”, “Come Rain or Come Shine”, and “That Old Black Magic”. , He co-founded Capital Records in 1942 for $25,000 and sold it to EMI in 1955 for $20 million. In 1946 he won his first Oscar for “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe”. In 1951 he won another Academy Award with Carmichael for “In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening”. He wrote “Moon River”, “Days of Wine and Roses” in 1961 earning him his fourth and fifth Oscars. He wrote the horrible English version of “Les feuilles mortes” called “Autumn Leaves”. In 1965 he wrote the English lyrics for “Der Sommerwind” and it became a hit for Frank Sinatra. He wrote the lyrics for more than 1,500 songs. He was nominated for 19 Oscars and won 4. He was sometimes Judy Garland’s lover. A fan named Sadie Vimmerstedt once wrote Johnny a letter telling him that “I Wanna Be Around to Pick Up the Pieces When Somebody Breaks Your Heart” would be a great title for a song. Mercer agreed and wrote the song, which became a hit and he shared half the royalties with Sadie. He co-wrote and “Something’s Gotta Give”.
I think Mercer was overrated as a lyricist.
I steamed my baseboards again.
July 10, 1996: I carried my dresser to the new place
Thirty years ago today
On Wednesday evening I probably performed on the Art Bar reading series open stage. After that I might have gone back to my place at 111 Sheridan Avenue and taken my dresser, carried it to the streetcar and transported it to my new place at 428 Queen Street West.
Thursday, 9 July 2026
Dinah Shore
On Wednesday morning I was hoping that my steaming of the baseboards near my bed the night before had wiped out the bedbugs but when I checked there were more than usual. Apparently this is normal because it drove the ones out that were too far in to be killed on contact.
I worked out the chords for three quarters of the first verse of “La complainte de Bonnot” by Boris Vian. I should have that verse done on Thursday and therefore probably also the all of the second verse. Then there’s the chorus.
I finished revising my translation of “Ça” (That), the parody of the Serge Gainsbourg song “Je t’aime. Moi non plus (I Love You. Neither Do I)”. I’ll run through the French text with the audio tomorrow to see if I split the two voices correctly.
I weighed 89.6 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Martin during song practice for the last of four sessions and it always went out of tune.
I finished painting the four floral reliefs on my future bathroom mirror frame with the “crazy in love” shade of pink. On Friday I’ll touch up the main parts of the frame with blue bliss. If I don’t smudge the pink while doing so, on Sunday I’ll mount the mirror. Once it’s mounted I might see the need in the different light for pink and blue touch ups.
I weighed 90.8 kilos before lunch, which is the heaviest I’ve been in the early afternoon since last Wednesday.
In the afternoon I took a bike ride downtown and back.
I weighed 89.5 kilos at 17:55.
I worked on getting caught up in my journal.
I was thinking that it would be too hot to cook but it cooled down just enough. I made pizza on a slice of multigrain sandwich bread with rosée tomato sauce, tomato pesto, oven fries, and five-year-old cheddar. I had it with a glass of Creemore lager while watching season 10, episode 8 of The Carol Burnett Show.
Carol says her favourite actor of all time is James Stewart but she introduces a young actor in the audience who is her favourite actor today: Anthony Hopkins.
Paul (played by Harvey) and Celeste (played by Carol) are two executives who meet for what appears to be a business lunch. Paul presents Celeste with an agenda and calls her attention to item 1, which is his proposal of marriage to her. He says, “We’ve been enjoying each other’s company with escalating regularity since fiscal 74 with increasing profits”. Celeste adds, “Except for that one dip in the second quarter of this year”. He provides her with various position papers for her to consider, titled: “Children”, “Religion”, and “Your Mother”. She wants him to go over the “Children” file with her. He’s calculated the optimum number of children at 1.3. She wants to know why he thinks marriage would increase their marginal utility over the long term. He says, “Based on an analysis of available data, I love you and you love me”. She makes some notes: “You love me and, what was it? I love you”. She says regarding the physical aspects of their relationship she has some reservations because of the second quarter dip. He says, “You must agree that I rallied during the following quarter”. She says it was a sluggish recovery at best. He goes to the washroom and she asks the waiter for the telephone. She punches the number and then in a little girl voice says, “Mommie he popped the question!”
Dinah Shore sings the 1975 song “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” by Paul Simon.
Tim (in his old man character) plays a butcher. Harvey comes in and asks for a quarter kilo of ground round. Tim tells him to take a number even though he’s the only customer. Harvey protests but he insists. Harvey gets number 28. Tim calls for #12 a couple of times, then goes back to the number indicator and calls out #13. Harvey insists on being served. Tim tries to reach under the counter for the round but can’t so he crawls in and swats a fly while he’s in there. He gets the round then puts it in the grinder but doesn’t have the strength to turn the crank. Harvey tries to help him and gets the crank started but his tie gets stuck while Tim keeps turning it. Tim takes a scissors and cuts Harvey’s tie. Harvey decides instead on a half a kilo of hotdogs. Tim tries to wrap them up but doesn’t have the strength to tear the butcher’s paper and ends up wrapping himself up. Harvey just decides to wear the hotdogs around his neck. He asks for a quarter kilo of Swiss Cheese. Tim starts playing the cheese like a flute, blowing into one hole and fingering the others. Tim accidentally pulls Harvey’s pants off and so he is standing there in his underwear when a lady walks in and flees in shock. She returns with a cop and Harvey is arrested for indecent exposure.
Carol says recently Gone With the Wind made its TV debut. They’ve put together a mini-version called Went With the Wind.
Carol plays Starlet O’Hara. Vicki plays the excitable maid Sissy but thankfully not in blackface. She’s always shouting “Miss Starlet! Miss Starlet!” and Starlet has to slap her face. Tim plays Brashly Wilks and Dinah plays his cousin Melody. Starlet is in love with Brashly and considers Melody a rival. She tells Melody to stick her head in the punch bowl because she’s sure it could use more sugar. Melody does as she’s told. Brashly informs Starlet that he married Melody this afternoon. Then Starlet meets Rats Butler (in a great imitation of Clark Gable by Harvey). He tells her that he and her are cut from the same dirty cloth and if it weren’t for the war he’d marry her in a minute. She asks, “What war?” Then Sissy comes up and shouts that war has been declared. Rats says he’s going to war and asks Starlet for something to remember her by so she punches him in the gut. Both Rats and Brashly leave. Melody announces that she’s pregnant and that the baby’s coming now. Sissy says she doesn’t know nothin bout birthin no babies but Starlet slaps her and she says she’ll try. A Union soldier comes to the door to ask for a match so Sissy gives him some. Next thing they see is Atlanta burning. Starlet gives a speech while Sissy provides backing vocals.
Four years later the plantation is run down and Sissy’s wearing rags as she announces that the war is over. A Yankee soldier comes to collect $300 back taxes on Terra. Starlet hits him with a chair and knocks him out. Brashly arrives and Starlet asks him for the $300 but he tells her his money went with the wind. She’s told that Rats Butler became a millionaire during the war. Starlet makes a dress out of her drapes including the curtain rod. Starlet comes down the stairs wearing her ridiculous curtain dress. Rats compliments it and she says she saw it in the window and couldn’t resist. He asks her to marry him and she says yes. The union soldier wakes up and turns out to be a minister so he performs the ceremony by saying I now pronounce you man and wife. She pays the Yankee the $300 and tells Sissy to show him the door. She says, “For $300 I’ll show him anything he wants”. Rats carries Starlet up the stairs and then he’s pooped. Starlet tries to kiss Brashly and Rats catches them . He swings at Brashly and punches Starlet, knocking her down the stairs. Melody stands at the top of the stairs and says she’s dying then collapses. She says she wants to talk to Starlet, who gets up and climbs the stairs. Melody wants Starlet to know how she feels then pushes her back down the stairs. Melody dies and Brashly leaves. Rats says he’s leaving Starlet. She asks what she’s going to do and he says, “Frankly my dear I don’t gi…” then she shuts the door on him. She asks Sissy what she’s going to do. Sissy slaps her and says she doesn’t give a damn.
The final musical sketch begins with the dancers moving to the 1928 song “Basin Street Blues” by Spencer Williams. Carol, Vicki and Dinah sing the song. Harvey pretends to play the trumpet then sings the 1926 song “The Birth of the Blues” by Ray Henderson, Buddy DeSylva, and Lew Brown. Dinah flirts with Harvey while singing her 1942 hit “The Mad About Him Sad About Him Howe Can I Be Glad Without Him Blues” by Larry Markes and Dick Charles. Harvey licks Dinah’s nose. Vickie flirts with him while singing the 1917 song “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Eddie Green. Carol pushes her away and sings “I Ain’t Got Nobody” from 1911, which has disputed authorship. Then one of the dancers does a seductive dance and lures Harvey away. carol, Vicki and Dinah sing the 1920 song “Wang Wang Blues” by Henry Busse, Gussie Meuller, and Buster Johnson. They end with “Basin Street Blues”.
Dinah Shore was a cheerleader in high school. She majored in Sociology in college. While still in college she took voice and acting lessons and sang on the radio. After graduation she moved to New York. She made her first TV appearance in an experimental broadcast in 1937. She made her national radio debut in 1939 on Ben Bernie’s Orchestra. She sang with Xavier Cugat’s orchestra and recorded with him as well. She signed a recording contract with RCA in 1940. That year she became a featured vocalist on the radio show The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street. The same year she became a regular on Eddie Cantor’s Time to Smile. She starred in 7 radio series from 1941 to 1954. She made her film debut in 1943 in Thank Your Lucky Stars. She was the first entertainer to visit the troops on the front lines during WWII. Her first #1 hit was Blues in the Night. Her song “Buttons and Bows” was #1 for ten weeks and the most popular song of 1948. “The Gypsy” and “The Anniversary Song” were also #1 hits. She had a string of 80 charted hits from 1940 to 1957. She hosted the radio show Birdseye Open House from 1943 to 1946. She co-starred in Up in Arms, Belle of the Yukon, Make Mine Music, Fun and fancy Free, Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick, She made her commercial TV debut on The Ed Wynn Show in 1949. She was the first female star to have her own prime time variety show, The Dinah Shore Show from 1951 to 1960, for which she won a Peabody Award in 1957. She hosted The Dinah Shore Chevy Show from 1956 to 1963. Her talk show Dinah lasted from 1974 to 1980. Starting in 1971 when she was 55 and he was 35 she had a 6 year love affair with Burt Reynolds. She wrote a cookbook called Someone’s in the Kitchen with Dinah.
I steamed the bedroom again. When I picked up the steamer hot water on the top around the cap spilled on my right hand and scalded my index finger. It was a bit sore for the rest of the night. I used the narrower needlepoint attachment to get deeper under the baseboards near the bed.
July 9, 1996: I hosted my Orgasmic Alphabet Orgy writers open stage
On Tuesday night as always I hosted my Orgasmic Alphabet Orgy writers open stage in the Art Bar of the Gladstone Hotel at 1214 Queen Street West.
Wednesday, 8 July 2026
Kay Cole
On Tuesday morning I went to bed after 2:30 and didn’t sleep before getting up at 5:00. Yoga is not a substitute for sleep but it helps.
I worked out the chords for the first line and a half of “La complainte de Bonnot” by Boris Vian.
I revised some more of my translation of “Ça” (That), a parody of the Serge Gainsbourg song “Je t’aime. Moi non plus (I Love You. Neither Do I)”. I might have it finished on Wednesday.
I weighed 89.05 kilos before breakfast.
I played my Martin during song practice for the third of four sessions and as usual it was out of tune constantly.
At about 13:35 I left to go up the street to Family Dentistry for my bi-annual checkup. Dr. Singh fixed a few of my fillings and we were done in half an hour. My next check-up is in January 12.
I rode over to Home Hardware where I bought the Dirt Devil Handheld Steamer that I was told they would be getting yesterday. It cost $62.14 after tax and hopefully it will kill my bedbugs.
I weighed 89.05 kilos at 14:50, which is the lightest I’ve been in the early afternoon since May 20.
I took a siesta and slept an extra 20 minutes.
It was too late to take a bike ride.
I weighed 90.15 kilos at 17:45. That’s the hardest I’ve been in the scale in the evening since June 29 but not as hard.
I was caught up in my journal at 20:14.
I digitized my cassette tape of Rob Siciliano’s Heckle Night, recorded in Slough, England in the early 1990s. It’s only fifteen minutes long so I recorded both sides through my audio interface to Audacity and then extracted it to my hard drive. Tomorrow I’ll digitize my feature at Fat Albert’s in 1996 accompanied by Brian Haddon on recorder.
I used the steamer for the first time. I was supposed to wait for the green light but when it came on, at the same time the red light was still on. I didn’t know if I should wait for the red light to go off or if it just stays on so I just started. In the beginning it spit out a splash of water before there was a steady stream of steam. Considering the little bit of water the tank holds at 250 ml, it produces a lot of steam. I blasted the spaces under the baseboards a few times.
I had a potato with gravy and two strips of finger beef while watching season 10. episode 7 of The Carol Burnett Show.
Four of the players from A Chorus Line are in the audience. They are there to see Kay Cole’s guest appearance. Carol encourages everybody to go see A Chorus Line.
A white guy with an afro asks Carol if she still gets stage fright. She says when she does her hair looks just like his.
A teenager asks her to do Nora Desmond but Carol says she needs the drag. She asks the kid if they know what “drag” is and they say it’s a cigarette. Carol explains that it’s the costume.
A girl wants a kiss from Tim Conway and a guy wants a handshake. Tim pretends to be awkward about it.
In the first sketch Harvey plays a person pretending to be paralyzed from the waist down after supposedly having been run over by Carol. If he wins against her she and her husband will lose their house, their car, and their life savings. Carol comes to his door to apologize and says he deserves everything he can get from them. He mentions that he just spoke to his lawyer on the phone. She asks if she can use it to call her husband and then she notices that it is sitting on the shelf, too far for someone who is paralyzed from the waist down in a wheelchair to reach. She tickles his foot with a feather and if he’s paralyzed he shouldn’t feel anything. He starts laughing but says it’s at a joke he just remembered. She offers him the chicken soup she brought but he says he doesn’t trust her so she has some, begins choking and convulsing then falls motionless on the floor. He gets up from his wheelchair to investigate and Carol gets up to catch him in his scam. They struggle, then he falls backward ending up with a real broken neck and legs.
Kay Cole comes out and Carol, Harvey, Vicki and Tim are there to greet her and offer support because this is her TV debut. Carol says no matter how many live performances one has done the cameras are pretty frightening. Kay says to the audience, “Aren’t they nice?” Harvey tells her she should talk to the cameras and not the audience. The regular cast are arguing among themselves as to how Kay should proceed until Kay asserts that she’s just going to be herself and so they leave her to do her song.
Kay sings and dances to “Boys and Girls Like You and Me” by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II from the 1943 musical Oklahoma.
In the Mama’s Family sketch Mickey Hart (played by Tim) has his boss Ed, (played by Harvey) Ed’s wife Eunice (played by Carol), and her Mama (played by Vicki) over to his tiny place to celebrate his fifth anniversary of working for Ed. He says he’s never had any guests in his room before. Eunice says none of her’s and Ed’s wedding anniversaries have ever gotten Ed so hopped up as anticipating this party. Mama says she hasn’t seen anything this cozy since she visited her Aunt Elizabeth in her trailer. The family starts arguing and Mickey calls it horsing around and says he loves it because he never had a family. He ran away from his aunt when he was 14. Mickey has ordered Chinese food from Kim’s down the street so he leaves to pick it up. After he’s gone Mama complains about how she got all dressed up to sit in a rat trap. She says they shouldn’t have even come into this neighbourhood without a police escort. “There’s every colour of the rainbow livin on this block!” (That’s the first hint we’ve gotten in the history of this character that she’s racist). She says to Eunice, “I never expected anything like this! I thought your place was a disaster area!” Mama refuses to taste the dip that Mickey made and she chooses to drink her beer from the can. She says there’s not telling where his hands have been and what’s growing in his glasses. Ed argues that Mickey has been an asset to his business so Eunice asks if that’s true how come he cut $5 a week from her food budget. Mama picks up one of Mickey’s magazines and points out that he doesn’t even take the trouble to hide his smut. Ed tells her that National Geographics aren’t smut. Mama says she used to catch Eunice’s father looking at the pictures of naked women in National Geographics. Mickey returns with the Chinese takeout and says Kim was surprised he had company and called him the Lone Ranger except that in imitating Kim, Mickey switches the “L” and the “R”. Eunice is surprised that Mickey can afford to eat Chinese food since Ed never takes his family out to one. Mama says her Aunt Francis had a friend who went into a Chinese restaurant and never come back out. She adds that they probably drugged her and took her off in a boat or something. Mama says the food looks pretty good. Mickey says what’s a raise for if you can’t spend it on people you care for? Eunice asks, “A what?” Mickey repeats, “A raise”. Ed puts his hand on Mickey's shoulder to try to signal for him to shut up, but Mickey says, “Imagine how surprised I was when the chief laid an extra $5 a week on me!” Eunice blows up and Mama tells her to calm down. Eunice asks, “Are you married to a man who takes the bread out of his family’s mouths and gives it to a stooge?” Mama says she told her she was gonna come to grief if she married Ed. Eunice says she had no choice since living with her was a living hell. Mama says, “I didn’t come over to this god forsaken part of the city to sit in this pigsty and be abused!” Mickey says, “Wanna try the pea pods?” Mama says, “Shut up you sawed off little weirdo!” Mama storms out and says she’s taking a bus if she doesn’t get mugged first. Eunice tells Ed to drive them home. Ed tosses her the keys and says he’ll grab a taxi later. Eunice says, “That’s all I need is for you to throw away more money on account of this twerp!” Eunice tells Ed it’s either her or Mickey. Ed tells her to drive carefully. Eunice leaves and Ed sits down to enjoy Chinese food with Mickey. Eunice comes back in, puts all the Chinese food in a box and says, “At least my sons are gonna have a good meal!” and then she leaves.
Carol, Vicki and Kay sing a medley of rain songs.
Carol sings “Here’s That Rainy Day” by Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke from the 1953 musical Carnival In Flanders.
Vicki sings the 1966 song “Cloudy” by Paul Simon and Bruce Woodley. Carol and Kay join in.
Kay sings “Soon it’s Gonna Rain” by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt from the 1960 musical The Fantasticks.
They all sing the 1932 song “Rain on the Roof” by Ann Ronell.
Carol sings the 1928 song “I Get the Blues When It Rains” by Harry Stoddard and Marcy Klauber.
The dancers lip sync the 1927 song “Rain” by Eugene Ford.
Carol, Vicki and Kay sing the 1971 song “Rainy Days and Mondays” by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols.
Kay and Carol sing the 1941 song “When the Sun Comes Out” by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler.
Carol finishes “Here’s That Rainy Day”.
Kay Cole was seen in a ballet class at the age of 6 by a director who asked her to audition for his show Me Candido. She made her Broadway debut as Sad Girl in Bye Bye Birdie in 1961. She originated Urchin in The Roar of the Greasepaint the Smell of the Crowd in 1965. She originated the role of Crissy in Hair in 1968. She played Mick Jagger and Joan Baez in National Lampoon’s Lemmings in 1973. She originated the role of Maggie in the 1975 Broadway production of A Chorus Line. She originated Strawberry Fields in the musical Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1975. She directed the plays Desperate Writers in 2007, and The Dining Room in 2009. She directed and choreographed I Only Have Eyes for You in 2005. She choreographed Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks in 2001 and 2003 and also the film adaptation. She released her debut solo album Souvenir in 2020.
July 8, 1996: I carried my mattress to the new place
Thirty years ago today
On Monday night I carried my mattress from 111 Sheridan to the streetcar and transported it to my new place at 428 Queen West. I spent my first night in my new home.
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