The recording you heard at the end of last night’s EPIC/THRILLING/CLUTCH YOUR PEARLS IN DRAMATIC ECSTASY  is from the 1969 musical “Oliver ” (directed by Footnotes favorite old timey auteur Carol Reed!). It’s the orphan Oliver’s solo about his missing mumsie.

Also, Oliver had it’s big broadway run in —of course — 1963 (remember Joanie gave the Britts tickets to see it earlier in the season? I bet you do!)

Uh, look, keeping with the Whitman style of opening The Box: I knew this song instantly because I was in Oliver in elementary school. I have a deplorable singing voice but could do the most marvelous cockney accent in the 5th grade so I was cast as Nancy, the battered hooker lead. I had a duet with Dodger, who was played by America Ferrera — you may know her as Ugly Betty.

8 years later she and I would get into a drama-class related shoving match (“what fisticuffs?!”) and I would be suspended. Then she would win a couple of golden globes and Emmys and so on. But is she on Tumblr? Does any one reblog her historical footnoting? HMMMMM? So clearly, victory (and tomorrow) belongs to me.

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