A little note on fashion...
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A live performance of
"These Are The Very Promise
of a Youth That Is Ephemeral"
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The clips below are
audio only. Just click on the
Real Audio logo
or the song title to listen.
These first two tracks are taken from tapes of live performances..
A little note on fashion...
Lying on your resume and a snippet of "When
Was I Born?"
The excerpts
below
are from unsweetened samples of the original show demos, recorded at an
early rehearsal (Collector's item alert!
)
Frozen
-- The Madonna version of this song was abbout people who are
emotionally
frozen, but Laura suspects Madonna's friends only seem that way because
they're too Botoxed up to make facial expressions.
My
Ship Has Sailed -- The show's title song, based on Kurt
Weill
and Ira Gershwin's "My Ship," which originally said, "My ship has
sails."
It's now a lament for everyone who's been told to forget about their
hopes,
dreams and ambitions because they're just too old and should hang it
up.
For women in the music business, this usually means they're over 24.
These
Are The Very Promise of a Youth That Is Ephemeral --
Anti-aging
products (cosmetics, diet supplements, injectable pureed goat placenta
or whatever) make up a multi-billion dollar industry, and there are
hundreds,
if not thousands, of them out there, all tantalizing us with the
promise
of eternal youth. Here are just a few, set to a familiar tune by
Gilbert & Sullivan. And yes, it does go on and on, getting
faster
and faster as it does (this is only the beginning), which is why Laura
never drinks wine before a show even though Dr. Perricone says it
doesn't
cause wrinkles.