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[0:06] Todd Graff: Hey, hey, hey, welcome everybody to another episode of the Great Broadway Game Show Competition.

[0:13] Todd Graff: I am your host, Wink Martindale, Rayburn Eubanks, but I am currently using my witness protection alias of Todd Graff.

[0:24] Todd Graff: And I am here with my wingman. Uh I don't know, Paul Schaeffer Quesla Baptiste McMahon, uh, better known as the celebrated Broadway composer and lyricist Andrew Lippa.

[0:37] Andrew Lippa: Hey, Andrew.

[0:40] Todd Graff: Trying to do my best Ed McMahon laugh, but that was pretty.

[0:43] Andrew Lippa: I thought that was just a sarcastic, that wasn't funny, Todd last year.

[0:47] Todd Graff: No, that no, that was that was Ed McMahon gone very wrong.

[0:50] Todd Graff: Here we are, ready to play another game, and we are going to make some money for another worthy cause.

[0:56] Todd Graff: And today we will be playing for Beit T’Shuvah.

[1:00] Todd Graff: Beit T’Shuvah, who are a really great residential treatment addiction center I've supported for years.

[1:07] Todd Graff: And as they put it, Beit T’Shuvah's mission is to heal broken souls and save the lives of those wrestling with addiction by providing integrated care in a community setting, because they believe that everybody has the right to redemption, which is why they never turn a single soul away due to their inability to pay.

[1:31] Todd Graff: So we will be making a donation to Beit T’Shuvah, but the real help has to come from you guys who are watching and listening to the show.

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[1:54] Todd Graff: No one uh today who's playing worry us is getting paid to be on this podcast.

[1:59] Todd Graff: You know, I created it just to help raise money for some very worthy causes.

[2:03] Todd Graff: So if you can, please join us. Go to the website bpn.fm slash game show, give a few bucks to bait Shuva. It would be very much appreciated.

[2:13] Todd Graff: All right, the picture's done. I'm a little distracted because I literally just looked and I have a spider on my wall, and all I can think of is spider on the wall signifies success.

[2:25] Andrew Lippa: Exactly.

[2:25] Todd Graff: Success I cannot guess.

[2:27] Andrew Lippa: Exactly.

[2:28] Todd Graff: Yes. Anybody that's a good, like, guess what that's from? You know, that that could be one of our uh songs in the show. And those who are not getting that reference are gonna have a very long hour now.

[2:39] Todd Graff: Okay. Here we are. We are overstocked today with fabulous players. Andrew, I feel like you should uh do Julia's introduction.

[2:49] Andrew Lippa: You know, which I'm serious, it's only fading weight, but I'm gonna play her intro music. Uh this because this, of course, is written by you and sung so rousingly.

[3:01] Andrew Lippa: Uh by her. Let's raise the road. Let's make scene. Let's hold the gods of the world will shine. Go for it, Andrew.

[3:24] Andrew Lippa: Julia Murney is one of our greatest singing actors. Julia and I met in 1996 doing a production of Steven Schwartz and David Stern's show Snapshots, it's actually one of the very earliest uh productions of that show, and that's how we met.

[3:37] Andrew Lippa: She sang Meadoward for her audition. And we looked at each other like, who are you? You crazy gifted person. She helped us develop the wild party and starred in it, singing this song and many others as the role of Queenie in the Wild Party in 2000 at the Manhattan Theater Club.

[3:51] Andrew Lippa: She went on to fame in musicals such as Lennon on Broadway. She performed as the famous Green Girl in Wicked, both on Broadway and on National Tour. I saw her do both of those.

[4:03] Andrew Lippa: She currently is in a revival of Baby, uh site-specific uh revival of baby, or it's just closing right now. Uh depending on when you're listening to this podcast. Uh, but she is one of the most extraordinary actors. She's been in a bunch of plays as well. The titles I don't remember, but uh, because I may do all of this for memory. Will you please welcome my friend, our friend, and a friend to anybody who loves musicals, Julia Murney.

[4:29] Julia Murney: Woo!

[4:37] Todd Graff: All right. Hey Julia.

[4:41] Julia Murney: How about that? I just threw that at Andrew. I didn't warn him or anything.

[4:45] Andrew Lippa: Well, he knows my business.

[4:50] Todd Graff: I'm up for your business.

[4:52] Todd Graff: So, Julia, you clearly go way back with Andrew. Uh tell us one thing about him that we don't know.

[4:59] Julia Murney: Uh he worked as a shoe salesman for quite some time.

[5:03] Todd Graff: Wow. You know, it's the for quite some time. The for quite some time is what I'm interested in.

[5:09] Julia Murney: Uh, well, sadly, I can't tell you the exact time.

[5:11] Andrew Lippa: Lips, what was the exact time?

[5:13] Andrew Lippa: It was in between my freshman and sophomore years at the University of Michigan. It was in the summertime in Birmingham, Michigan, at Mr. Allen's shoe store, and I was the number one shoe salesman in the entire chain of four stores.

[5:24] Andrew Lippa: That's why I remember because you were number one.

[5:28] Julia Murney: That's one of my proudest achievements. Yep. There's a little something. I know a lot about shoes.

[5:35] Julia Murney: Thank you for being here.

[5:37] Julia Murney: Of course, for you, sir.

[5:39] Todd Graff: You know, you have a show tonight, I assume, yes.

[5:41] Julia Murney: I do not. We closed on Sunday, y'all.

[5:44] Todd Graff: Oh, all right.

[5:47] Todd Graff: So if you missed it, you missed it.

[5:50] Julia Murney: Well, where were you?

[5:51] Julia Murney: If you missed it, where were you?

[5:53] Julia Murney: If they were there, you'd still be running.

[5:55] Todd Graff: But we we just wrapped it up and I thought of you every night, Todd Graff.

[5:58] Todd Graff: Oh, stop. As if all the theater glitterattery glitterati we've introduced already weren't enough. We also have two-time Tony nominee for the producers and for his show stopping turn is Nostradamus in Something Rotten.

[6:13] Todd Graff: Currently knocking him in the aisles eight times a week in Mrs. Dadfire. It is the one and only Brad Oscar.

[6:21] Brad Oscar: Yes, I'm musical.

[6:34] Todd Graff: Hey Brad!

[6:36] Brad Oscar: Hello there.

[6:37] Brad Oscar: How are thou?

[6:38] Brad Oscar: I'm great. I'm very happy to be here.

[6:40] Brad Oscar: If I if I can just say something about that particular number, the night I saw something rotten, that number ended, and the entire audience, including me, stood up right away at the end of the number, screaming their heads off.

[6:53] Brad Oscar: And I I don't know how many shows I can't remember a show, except like, you know, a somebody's concert act where people stand up in the middle of an act. It was so thrilling.

[7:04] Brad Oscar: It's crazy because we were convinced, of course, that were, you know, the invited dress, it happens. You think, okay, invited dress. The first preview, oh, okay, the discount seats. You make excuses until it did happen really for an extended period of time.

[7:14] Brad Oscar: And then of course it stopped because all good things must, you know. Uh, but anyway, yes, it was a joy. I love what I do, and uh happy to be here with my gosh, you know, all of these fabulous faces that I'm seeing on my screen. So thank you.

[7:29] Todd Graff: You you pounced on it like you'd been on Atkins for three years, and it was like a fucking seven-layer cake. It was so great to see.

[7:37] Todd Graff: Well, did you ever did you not to extend this even further? But did you ever hear Gilbert Gottfried do his bit about Nostradamus?

[7:47] Brad Oscar: No, I know.

[7:48] Todd Graff: Oh my god. It's it boy basically boils down to I was having a conversation with Nostradamus. He just kept saying, I know, I know, I know, I know.

[7:57] Todd Graff: Well, welcome. Our next guest, um next guest, uh uh adapted. Here we go. I'm waiting for Madeline. Adapted and directed musical holiday in on Broadway, the film version of which has become a staple on PBS, as well as such off-Broadway hits as the revisal of working and what you're listening to now, Jacques Rell. Please welcome Gordon Greenberg.

[8:30] Gordon Greenberg: Hi, sis. I'm waiting for Madeline.

[8:36] Gordon Greenberg: And when she loves us, hey Gordon.

[8:40] Gordon Greenberg: Hi, I'm so happy to hear that that song.

[8:43] Todd Graff: Yeah, well, actually, I won't call you Gordon, which is like our nickname, I'm my nickname for you. I guess others too. Because I'll take it. I like it.

[8:50] Gordon Greenberg: Yeah, but John, my Colombian Spanish speaking husband said to me, Why do you always call him fat? He's not fat. Doesn't he get insulted?

[8:59] Todd Graff: I I speak French, so no.

[9:02] Gordon Greenberg: I'm fine.

[9:03] Todd Graff: Well, I'm insulted. Gordon, I love how the first line on your Wikipedia page says Greenberg attended Stanford University and MYU Film School Tisch School of the Arts and the Lincoln Center Theatre Director's Lab and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and Stagedoor Manor.

[9:23] Gordon Greenberg: I think Jonathan Sherman put that in there.

[9:26] Todd Graff: Well, welcome, Gordon.

[9:28] Gordon Greenberg: Thank you.

[9:29] Gordon Greenberg: Thank you for having me. Uh our lastly but not leastly, God knows, final guest. I'm just organizing your song. Here we go. Um what will it be? She she's, you know, what will it be? What will it be?

[9:45] Gordon Greenberg: She's spectacularly gifted and successful in all areas, but she has two particularly successful gears, I find revivals and Andrew Lippa shows. And sometimes Andrew Lippa revivals. So Andrew, you should definitely handle her introduction while I play her gorgeous rendition of your song I don't need a roof from Big Fish.

[10:08] Andrew Lippa: Thank you. Well, our next guest guest is uh an amazing. Wait, one second, Andrew. Let's listen just for a second.

[10:15] Andrew Lippa: I'm singing Andrew.

[10:18] Todd Graff: What are you, Norbert?

[10:43] Andrew Lippa: That of course is Kate Baldwin.

[10:45] Andrew Lippa: Okay, that is Kate Baldwin, who has been on Broadway, of course, uh in Hello Dolly. She was uh she came to Broadway, I think in her first big role was in uh uh that uh that wonderful show by uh the the Irish show, Glaucamora Show.

[11:02] Andrew Lippa: Thank you. Finney is very well. I don't have a script here because Tony nominated for. Tony nominated for, which started at Encourse, I believe, and then was transferred to the Broadway.

[11:11] Andrew Lippa: And uh she's graduate of Northwestern University, Go Cats. Yeah. And um she is uh she uh performed on Broadway starring in uh Big Fish, which happens to have a score by yours truly, and she did the uh 20-year revival of John and Jen, which also happens to have a score by yours truly.

[11:30] Andrew Lippa: Um and she's on the original cast recording of uh The Man in the Ceiling, which happens to have a score by yours truly. Uh please welcome Kate Baldwin.

[11:40] Kate Baldwin: Yay! And I just got a phone call and had to had to decline it, and it was from the person who played John in that production of John and Jen, Connor Ryan. So there's something cosmic going on. He wanted to be in on this. So welcome, Kate.

[11:55] Kate Baldwin: Hey. Um Thank you. I'm glad to be here.

[11:57] Todd Graff: Well, we're thrilled that you are here. Okay, now Gordon and Julie have played before, but everybody else, and Lippa, of course, uh, but for everybody else, the rules of the game, they're very simple. It's basically named that show too.

[12:12] Todd Graff: So I'm gonna divide you up into teams, but like on Family Feud, each individual player gets a turn. So I'll play a small portion of the song, and the person whose turn it is needs to guess both the song title and the name of the show it's from. Each of those is worth a point.

[12:29] Todd Graff: If you guess anything wrong, then the opposing team can guess and steal any points that are left.

[12:35] Todd Graff: And if they guess wrong, it then comes back to the other members of the first team to guess.

[12:41] Todd Graff: And that's it. Does that kind of make sense?

[12:44] Andrew Lippa: Right.

[12:45] Todd Graff: Okay. And if not, I promise it will when we play. So the teams as we begin are going to be Gordon and Julia, since you have both played before, versus Kate, Brad, and Andrew.

[12:58] Andrew Lippa: Okay.

[12:59] Todd Graff: Oh no.

[13:01] Andrew Lippa: Team Big Fish.

[13:03] Todd Graff: Okay. Team.

[13:05] Andrew Lippa: There you go.

[13:05] Todd Graff: Team to fish.

[13:07] Andrew Lippa: There you go. So let us play.

[13:10] Todd Graff: The great Broadway game show competition.

[13:13] All: Woo-hoo!

[13:14] Todd Graff: Uh Kate, why don't you start us off? You're first.

[13:17] Kate Baldwin: Okay. Come on, Kate. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go.

[13:27] Kate Baldwin: When do I go? When do I talk?

[13:28] Todd Graff: Anytime you want.

[13:29] Kate Baldwin: Oh, it's Thoroughly Modern Millie.

[13:30] Kate Baldwin: I was in the original Broadway cast.

[13:31] Todd Graff: It is Thoroughly Modern Millie from Thoroughly Modern Millie.

[13:35] Todd Graff: Great. Two points. That's how you play.

[13:40] Todd Graff: Freeze. For those of you who can't see, Kate Baldwin is now doing the choreography.

[13:47] Andrew Lippa: Wasn't that your bro? Was that your Broadway debut?

[13:50] Kate Baldwin: It was yes.

[13:51] Andrew Lippa: Yes, no?

[13:52] Kate Baldwin: Yes. Uh my Broadway debut was The Fulmonti, but I was a swing in that show.

[13:55] Todd Graff: Oh, okay. Okay, but in the ensemble of Millie.

[13:58] Kate Baldwin: Yeah.

[13:58] Todd Graff: Were you singing on that recording just now?

[14:00] Kate Baldwin: Yes, I was.

[14:02] Andrew Lippa: Yes. Good for you.

[14:03] Todd Graff: Good for you. Okay, so we start off with the first song already.

[14:07] Andrew Lippa: We're cheating.

[14:08] Todd Graff: Okay. Thank you. I appreciate that. That was a nice, easy introduction. Thank you.

[14:12] Andrew Lippa: Exactly. Might as well have played something from West Side.

[14:15] Todd Graff: Go ahead.

[14:16] Andrew Lippa: Exactly. Okay. Uh Julia, this is your turn.

[14:21] Julia Murney: Okay.

[14:27] Julia Murney: Wave your little hand and whisper so long, dearie.

[14:32] Julia Murney: You ain't gonna see me anymore.

[14:37] Julia Murney: But when you discover that your life is dreary, don't you come and knock it on?

[14:43] Julia Murney: Don't help her.

[14:45] Todd Graff: Because I'll be all down.

[14:47] Julia Murney: Do I talk or do I let her talk any time?

[14:55] Todd Graff: Go on.

[14:56] Julia Murney: Um so long, dearie from Hello Dolly.

[14:59] Todd Graff: Two points. Well done.

[15:01] Todd Graff: Yeah. Wonderful. Okay, so that was Julia. So then this is Brad's turn.

[15:10] Brad Oscar: The average unmarried female.

[15:13] Brad Oscar: Oh basically. Well, which recording do you well it's Adelaide's Lament from Guys and Dolls?

[15:19] Todd Graff: That revival.

[15:21] Brad Oscar: Well, that's two points. And I'm um I know Faith Prince will be happy to recognize her.

[15:28] Todd Graff: There you go. Two points. Okay, next up is Gordon.

[15:33] Gordon Greenberg: Hey, would you look at me? It's hard to believe I'm a star after all of this time.

[15:41] Gordon Greenberg: Others may glow from the stardust I throw on their path.

[15:46] Gordon Greenberg: Never thinking I'd shine. Like some Hollywood queen. I've arrived on the scene. A sensation, the toast of the town.

[16:00] Gordon Greenberg: So I may never come down.

[16:10] Todd Graff: Wait a minute. That's not from Hello Dolly or Guys and Dolls.

[16:15] Todd Graff: So that's we're like a normal show.

[16:17] Andrew Lippa: No, we've gone, we've jumped a shark. Is that like Mary Testa in Summerstock in 1998? Like, what is that?

[16:25] Gordon Greenberg: No, no guess.

[16:26] Todd Graff: All right. Um, I would guess based on the recording quality, it's like a Bruce Yapp era, like kind of late 90s, early 2000s.

[16:38] Todd Graff: All right, you're well down the wrong garden path. So I will throw it over to the other team.

[16:44] Todd Graff: Other team got a guess?

[16:46] Brad Oscar: Do Brad and I get to confer our guests?

[16:49] Todd Graff: Sure.

[16:49] Brad Oscar: It did sound like Mary Testa.

[16:51] Brad Oscar: I thought it sounded like Ann Hampton Callaway. I thought it was like swing or game.

[16:55] Julia Murney: Is that I might come to the office?

[16:56] Brad Oscar: Oh, oh, oh, oh, the show swing?

[16:58] Julia Murney: Yeah.

[16:59] Brad Oscar: Oh god. If that counts, then we need to retalk about.

[17:02] Todd Graff: No, no, no, jukebox musicals.

[17:05] Todd Graff: No jukebox, no jukebox music. No wannabe shit. Let's have people who write tunes for the no.

[17:11] Gordon Greenberg: Uh that's I don't know. Because I don't, I do not recognize it.

[17:15] Gordon Greenberg: It has a sound, of course, but I well now do you say Mary Testa? Now she's in my head, too.

[17:19] Julia Murney: What would that be though?

[17:21] Julia Murney: But what would that be? A jazzy Mary Testa?

[17:24] Gordon Greenberg: Broadway, yeah. I mean, I don't know.

[17:25] Todd Graff: All right, I'm gonna because it's not you're putting us out of our misery, yeah, because there's no Mary Testa involved.

[17:31] Todd Graff: Uh so it now goes it now goes back to uh Julia. Do you have a guess?

[17:36] Julia Murney: No, because I was like, is that Lucy Ornez?

[17:40] Todd Graff: So it is actually Alison Janney.

[17:44] Todd Graff: That's one of the boys from Nine to Five.

[17:47] Julia Murney: Oh sorry, Dolly.

[17:52] Todd Graff: Sorry. Wow. There you go.

[17:53] Andrew Lippa: Okay.

[17:54] Todd Graff: It counts.

[17:55] Andrew Lippa: It does count.

[17:56] Todd Graff: Yeah, that counts. Better tune from Woman of the Year with the same title, but we don't have to talk about that.

[18:03] Andrew Lippa: Go ahead.

[18:04] Todd Graff: Lippa, this is a good one. I would have gotten that.

[18:06] Andrew Lippa: That I would have gotten a lot of.

[18:07] Todd Graff: Oh, one day we saw what I'm here. Here is Lippa's turn.

[18:10] Andrew Lippa: A weakling weighing 98 pounds.

[18:18] Todd Graff: It's the Rocky Horror Show.

[18:21] Andrew Lippa: It is. And the song is called To the Grind.

[18:25] Todd Graff: I Can Make You a Man.

[18:28] Andrew Lippa: That's in the lyric, but that's not what it's called.

[18:30] Todd Graff: Other team have a guess.

[18:33] Brad Oscar: Sweat from his paws.

[18:35] Julia Murney: Can we confirm what for his call in just seven weeks?

[18:41] Andrew Lippa: Made him glisten and gleam.

[18:44] Julia Murney: In an amount of and red massage.

[18:48] Todd Graff: Just a little bit of I do not know the Rocky.

[18:55] Andrew Lippa: He was maybe it'll be in the lyrics.

[19:15] Todd Graff: But I do know that Hillary Farr from Love It or List, it was in the original company in London. Just a fun fact.

[19:21] Andrew Lippa: Doesn't she look good?

[19:24] Todd Graff: Fun is relative, surely. Um are facts, I'm afraid.

[19:30] Todd Graff: All right. All right, it's going back to the original team. You have a guess.

[19:33] Brad Oscar: Which team is that? Is that us?

[19:35] Todd Graff: Yes, it's us, but I we just need the title of the song.

[19:38] Brad Oscar: I also do not know the Rocky Horror Show.

[19:42] Todd Graff: It is called the it is called the Charles Atlas Song.

[19:46] Brad Oscar: Oh man, we're gonna come up with that.

[19:48] Todd Graff: No one's gonna get the title. That's it.

[19:50] Andrew Lippa: Oh right. Yeah, exactly.

[19:51] Todd Graff: Dance 10 looks great. I know it's too hard. Okay. Uh this is now Kate's turn.

[19:54] Todd Graff: Here you go, Kate.

[19:59] Kate Baldwin: Where's that boy?

[20:03] Kate Baldwin: Uh my love. I mean, this stop. I'm crying. Stop. Stop. Stop.

[20:11] Todd Graff: Yeah, yes, it's too much. This is from Mame, and it's If You Walked Into My Life.

[20:16] Todd Graff: Correct. Have you ever seen Leslie Uggams do it at the Hollywood Bowl?

[20:20] Julia Murney: Good.

[20:22] Todd Graff: Exactly. That is the greatest performance of that song. It is, I think. Sorry, I think.

[20:25] Julia Murney: I've never seen the great.

[20:29] Todd Graff: That is two points. Isn't there also a recording of that on um Jerry's Girls, too?

[20:35] Kate Baldwin: Yes, Combat Nerd.

[20:40] Todd Graff: There were two correct answers. This is Julia's turn.

[20:57] Julia Murney: It's from Hair.

[20:59] Todd Graff: Yes.

[21:01] Julia Murney: Electric Blues.

[21:03] Todd Graff: Two points. That was good. That's uh Electric Blues from Hair is correct.

[21:13] Julia Murney: I was obsessed with that movie.

[21:16] Todd Graff: Oh, so good.

[21:16] Julia Murney: Me too.

[21:17] Todd Graff: Me too. Uh okay, that means this is now Brad's turn.

[21:38] Brad Oscar: They have a hill as a busy little still while your papers working in the moonlight.

[21:49] Todd Graff: Oh, uh Annie, Get Your Gun.

[21:52] Todd Graff: Two points. Revive.

[21:55] Brad Oscar: So thank you.

[22:02] Todd Graff: Two points for Moonshine Lullaby from Annie Get Your Gun. And that means that next up is Gordon.

[22:13] Gordon Greenberg: I hope it's not modern.

[22:16] Todd Graff: Exactly.

[22:21] Gordon Greenberg: Oh good.

[22:22] Gordon Greenberg: Chess.

[22:23] Todd Graff: Yes.

[22:23] Gordon Greenberg: I know him so well.

[22:24] Todd Graff: Oh, no.

[22:29] Gordon Greenberg: Wow.

[22:31] Todd Graff: That's great. But let's hear a little bit.

[22:35] Gordon Greenberg: Oh things to joy shoes must go wrong.

[22:44] Todd Graff: But this has never yet prevented me.

[22:52] Gordon Greenberg: Feels so slow.

[22:53] Todd Graff: It's so slow.

[22:55] Andrew Lippa: It's a British person singing, that's why.

[22:59] Todd Graff: And as we know, chess is better listening to the recording.

[23:02] Andrew Lippa: Have you ever noticed revivals? The tempos go faster and faster for every revival of a show.

[23:07] Todd Graff: Absolutely. Hurry up to the story. Trying to make it work. Trying to make it work. Trying to work the first time. Go faster.

[23:14] Andrew Lippa: Yeah, that's right.

[23:15] Todd Graff: Andrew Lippa, this is your turn.

[23:32] Andrew Lippa: I'm gonna cry.

[23:33] Todd Graff: Well, it's Song and Dance.

[23:35] Andrew Lippa: Correct.

[23:37] Andrew Lippa: Um take me to a part that's tell me on a Sunday.

[23:48] Todd Graff: Two points. Well done.

[23:51] Andrew Lippa: That apartment, that's like Alanis Morissette in Uninvited.

[23:54] Todd Graff: Apart you know that song Uninvited.

[24:02] Todd Graff: This next round is called the singing lipogram. And here is how it works. I'm gonna play a piece of a song, but at some point I will stop it abruptly, like in musical chairs.

[24:12] Todd Graff: And players must then buzz in. And whoever buzzes in first has to sing the next line or the next few lines to get to the natural end of the phrase, picking up from where the song stopped.

[24:26] Todd Graff: Now you're gonna buzz in by using your chat, and each song is going to be worth two points. But if you buzz in before the music stops, your guess doesn't count.

[24:37] Todd Graff: So you have to wait until after I've stopped the song to buzz in. Okay, so let's do the first singing lipogram. See how it goes.

[25:04] Julia Murney: You give your love so sweetly.

[25:14] Todd Graff: Uh Julia.

[25:16] Julia Murney: Tonight the light of love is in your eyes. But will you love me tomorrow?

[25:26] Andrew Lippa: Yes, indeed.

[25:28] Todd Graff: Well, two points and beautiful. All right. So here comes the next, the next singing lipogram.

[26:07] Kate Baldwin: Bobby.

[26:09] Kate Baldwin: Bobby baby. Bobby booby, Bobby.

[26:12] Todd Graff: Robert, darling, something else.

[26:15] Andrew Lippa: Well, well because it's for charity, I will give you those two points enough. You are so close. It's Bobby. Well, you'll hear it. It's here you go. It's no, we want you to do it.

[26:28] Kate Baldwin: Mommy.

[26:29] Kate Baldwin: Happy baby. Mommy, baby.

[26:31] Kate Baldwin: Robbie.

[26:32] Kate Baldwin: Robbie. Robert Darling.

[26:34] Julia Murney: That was my part.

[26:35] Kate Baldwin: Robert Darling.

[26:37] Todd Graff: All right, here we go with the next singing lipogram right now.

[26:43] Andrew Lippa: Happiness is finding a pencil.

[26:47] Andrew Lippa: Pizza with sausage. Telling the time.

[26:53] Andrew Lippa: Happiness is learning to whistle.

[26:57] Andrew Lippa: Tying your shoe for the very first time.

[27:04] Todd Graff: Uh that looks like. Is that Gordon?

[27:06] Gordon Greenberg: Was yours from the last one or this one?

[27:08] Todd Graff: It was for the last one.

[27:10] Andrew Lippa: Okay.

[27:11] Andrew Lippa: Lippa, this is you.

[27:15] Andrew Lippa: Happiness is playing the drum in your own school band.

[27:21] Andrew Lippa: And happiness is walking hand in hand.

[27:26] Todd Graff: Lovely. Happiness.

[27:29] Andrew Lippa: Playing the drum in your own school band. And happiness is walking hand in hand.

[27:39] Todd Graff: Very nice. Sweet. That's from uh flying over sunset, right?

[27:47] Todd Graff: All right, here's the next thing in the program.

[27:59] Andrew Lippa: Every single day, I walk down the street.

[28:03] Andrew Lippa: I hear people say baby.

[28:06] Andrew Lippa: So sweet. Ever since puberty.

[28:09] Andrew Lippa: Everybody says send me a boys, girls.

[28:12] Andrew Lippa: I can't help it, baby.

[28:14] Andrew Lippa: So be kind and don't lose your mind.

[28:19] Andrew Lippa: Just remember that I'm your baby.

[28:25] Julia Murney: Uh Julia.

[28:27] Julia Murney: Oh, I don't know if I should have done that.

[28:28] Julia Murney: Take me for what I am, who I was meant to be.

[28:35] Julia Murney: And if you give a damn, take me, baby, or leave me.

[28:42] Andrew Lippa: True boys.

[28:44] Andrew Lippa: Oh yeah.

[28:46] Andrew Lippa: Oh, yes.

[28:48] Andrew Lippa: Absolutely. Coming up in February, the one woman rent with Drew.

[28:58] Todd Graff: Okay.

[29:04] Todd Graff: All right, here is the next thing in lipogram.

[29:08] Andrew Lippa: Our lives insured.

[29:10] Andrew Lippa: Oh, jeez.

[29:11] Andrew Lippa: Dreams computed.

[29:13] Andrew Lippa: Loans secured.

[29:15] Andrew Lippa: Others floundered, had no plan.

[29:20] Andrew Lippa: Our direction was clean.

[29:23] Andrew Lippa: And the fact that leaves me so astonished is never once did we feel the road was straight and true that brought us to me.

[29:42] Todd Graff: Well, it's gotta be Julia, of course.

[29:45] Todd Graff: And now I'm asking if I loved you.

[29:49] Todd Graff: What does it matter that I loved you?

[29:52] Julia Murney: Cross left.

[29:56] Andrew Lippa: Oh, beautiful.

[29:57] Julia Murney: I just wanted to hear it because I didn't get to go to New York to see you do it.

[30:01] Andrew Lippa: That song is a bop.

[30:03] Julia Murney: Yes.

[30:04] Andrew Lippa: I love that song.

[30:05] Julia Murney: I agree.

[30:06] Andrew Lippa: I agree.

[30:06] Julia Murney: That whole score.

[30:07] Andrew Lippa: That whole song is a bop.

[30:09] Andrew Lippa: It is a perfect score.

[30:10] Andrew Lippa: It's a perfect song.

[30:10] Julia Murney: It's gorgeous.

[30:11] Julia Murney: Just hearing it, I start crying.

[30:15] Todd Graff: Here is the final singing lipogram.

[30:22] Andrew Lippa: If mama was married, we'd live in a house as private as private can be.

[30:31] Julia Murney: Oh.

[30:31] Julia Murney: Oh, that's mean.

[30:33] Andrew Lippa: Oh, that's Andrew Lippa.

[30:36] Andrew Lippa: Shit, there's a canary somewhere in there.

[30:40] Andrew Lippa: Private can be.

[30:42] Andrew Lippa: Just canary.

[30:47] Julia Murney: One brother and me.

[30:50] Todd Graff: So close.

[30:51] Todd Graff: Close.

[30:52] Todd Graff: If we were only doing it in the middle of the day, the blessed memory of Steven Sondheim.

[30:55] Julia Murney: Oh my god, I'm so sorry.

[30:57] Julia Murney: Uh Julia, take a shot at it.

[31:00] Julia Murney: Either.

[31:01] Julia Murney: Just mama, three ducks, five canaries, a mouse, one monkey, two fathers turtles.

[31:08] Andrew Lippa: Not two fathers.

[31:13] Todd Graff: Clean up on aisle six.

[31:15] Todd Graff: She got there.

[31:16] Todd Graff: That was pretty close.

[31:16] Julia Murney: Yeah.

[31:18] Julia Murney: I'd see that gypsy.

[31:19] Todd Graff: Yeah.

[31:20] Todd Graff: Go for it, Kate.

[31:22] Kate Baldwin: Do it, Kate.

[31:22] Kate Baldwin: Do it.

[31:23] Kate Baldwin: Do it.

[31:23] Julia Murney: No, that was it.

[31:24] Julia Murney: You said three ducks, five canaries, a mouse.

[31:27] Julia Murney: One father?

[31:28] Julia Murney: Six turtles.

[31:29] Julia Murney: Turtles.

[31:30] Julia Murney: There's some turtles in there.

[31:31] Julia Murney: Three turtles.

[31:31] Julia Murney: Two monkeys, one father, six turtles.

[31:34] Julia Murney: Yeah, that's it.

[31:36] Julia Murney: Two monkeys, one father, six turtles.

[31:43] Andrew Lippa: I liked the two fathers version, though.

[31:44] Andrew Lippa: That was good.

[31:46] Andrew Lippa: So we all have the satisfaction of having gotten there, but sadly no points.

[31:50] Todd Graff: There were not two fathers.

[31:52] Todd Graff: Coming in March, the all one woman version of Gypsy starring Kate Baldwin as the two fathers.

[31:58] Andrew Lippa: And the six turtles.

[31:59] Andrew Lippa: We did not have two fathers, but I did it in stage door manner.

[32:02] Todd Graff: You want to start my two dads the musical.

[32:04] Todd Graff: Okay.

[32:05] Todd Graff: Here we go. This is called the finale ultimo, and this is how it works.

[32:10] Todd Graff: First of all, what are the scores on the doors?

[32:12] Andrew Lippa: I haven't even checked the score of the whole game.

[32:14] Andrew Lippa: Team Kate has 15.

[32:16] Andrew Lippa: Team Julia has 12.

[32:18] Andrew Lippa: 15 to 12. Gotta do it.

[32:20] Todd Graff: Okay.

[32:21] Todd Graff: Um song. This is how finale ultimo works.

[32:25] Todd Graff: One song, the same song for both teams.

[32:27] Todd Graff: You need to guess both the song title and the show title.

[32:31] Todd Graff: You can confer because we're going to send you to breakout rooms.

[32:35] Todd Graff: But first, you're gonna go to your breakout rooms and decide how much you want to bet.

[32:40] Todd Graff: You can bet all your points, none of them, or any amount in between.

[32:44] Todd Graff: But once you decide, please write it down so that we can reveal them later rather than just blurt it out.

[32:49] Todd Graff: Everybody understand that it's 15 to 12, Kate's team leading Julia's team, and you're gonna do your bet.

[32:55] All: Yeah.

[32:56] Todd Graff: Okay. See ya.

[32:59] Todd Graff: And they are gone.

[33:02] Todd Graff: But I am going to employ the Scooby Doo time jump device so that we don't all sit here bored waiting for them to figure out their bets.

[33:10] Todd Graff: So and they're back.

[33:16] Todd Graff: And now here is the finale ultimo.

[33:33] Andrew Lippa: There's a town that I call home.

[33:39] Andrew Lippa: Where all the streets are pay soul.

[33:46] Andrew Lippa: Down on Beal, there's a honky tongue bar.

[33:50] Andrew Lippa: Hear the wail of a blues guitar.

[33:53] Andrew Lippa: Have a beer, drop a dime in a blind man's jar.

[34:03] Andrew Lippa: The blues sing softly in the air.

[34:07] Andrew Lippa: Like a Sunday morning prayer.

[34:10] Andrew Lippa: Just one more drink and you'll see God everywhere.

[34:16] Todd Graff: All right. That is the finale ultimo song.

[34:20] Todd Graff: You'll now go to your breakout rooms and decide on your guest.

[34:23] Todd Graff: Write it down, please, and uh see ya.

[34:27] Andrew Lippa: I don't know, what can I say? It's it's one of those songs that I think is not super hard because the show was a giant long-running award-winning hit, and that song was the stirring anthem from that show.

[34:44] Andrew Lippa: Here I am giving you all clues.

[34:47] Andrew Lippa: But you know, you never know.

[34:49] Andrew Lippa: The things you think everybody knows, and then people don't, and vice versa.

[34:53] Andrew Lippa: This may be the kind of crowd that knows, you know, the cookie ballet from anyone can whistle, but not uh, you know, I've grown accustomed to her face.

[35:05] Andrew Lippa: So we shall see.

[35:07] Andrew Lippa: In the meantime, however, uh, I'm hoping that you will once again hear my plea to uh give a couple of dollars to Beit T’Shuvah, which is our charity.

[35:20] Andrew Lippa: If you can, uh, you just go to bpn.fm slash game show and link to their donation page, and it would be much much appreciated.

[35:29] Todd Graff: All right, enough, enough, enough.

[35:31] Todd Graff: Let us see what the teams have to say for themselves, and we are back.

[35:36] Todd Graff: Okay, so the score is team Kate 15 points, team Julia, 12 points.

[35:41] Todd Graff: I want to see what you not your bets yet, but your guess at uh uh song and show title.

[35:49] Todd Graff: So, team Julia with your 12 points. What is your guess?

[35:51] Julia Murney: And that says uh Memphis lives in me from Memphis.

[35:58] Todd Graff: Very good.

[36:00] Todd Graff: And now uh Kate Scene, let me see what your guess is.

[36:04] Kate Baldwin: And that says, Memphis lives in me from Memphis.

[36:08] Todd Graff: Well, you are both right. It is indeed Memphis lives in me from Memphis.

[36:12] Todd Graff: So it's all gonna come down to the map and the betting.

[36:16] Todd Graff: Team Julia with your 12 points. How much should you bet?

[36:21] Julia Murney: All 12.

[36:22] Todd Graff: They went for the farm.

[36:23] Todd Graff: You are now in the lead 24 to 15.

[36:26] Todd Graff: Kate's team, if you bet nine, it's a tie.

[36:30] Todd Graff: If you bet 10, you win.

[36:31] Todd Graff: If you bet less than nine, you lose.

[36:34] Todd Graff: What was your bet?

[36:36] Kate Baldwin: 10 points.

[36:37] Todd Graff: And so for a final score of 25 to 24, Team Kate wins and well played.

[36:45] Julia Murney: Good game, everybody.

[36:48] Kate Baldwin: Excellent.

[36:49] Julia Murney: Well, thank you.

[36:50] Kate Baldwin: So fun.

[36:51] Julia Murney: Super fun.

[36:52] Todd Graff: Thank you for coming.

[36:54] Andrew Lippa: Everybody, give a couple of bucks to Beit T’Shuvah if you can at BPN.fm slash game show.

[37:00] Andrew Lippa: And for all of you guys, very grateful.

[37:03] Andrew Lippa: Love you all.

[37:05] All: Love you.

[37:05] Todd Graff: Tune in again if you feel like it.

[37:07] Todd Graff: And I hope you will to the great Broadway Game Show competition.

[37:11] All: See ya!

[37:12] All: Bye everybody.